The Trials of Alger Hiss

Duration: 166 mi

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Corinth

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Examines the controversial trial of Alger Hiss, a former State Department official convicted of stealing government documents for a Communist spy ring. Interviews with participants of the 1949/50 trials, including members of Congress, witnesses, prosecutors, jurors and Hiss himself, are intercut with newsreel footage of the period.

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