History :

• Witch-hunt
  "A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances
  also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials.
  The classical period of witch-hunts in Europe falls into the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1700, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation
  and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in tens of thousands of executions...
  The term "witch-hunt" is often used to refer to similarly panic-induced searches for perceived wrong-doers other than witches.
  The best known example is probably the McCarthyist search for communists during the Cold War..."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• "McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States in a period that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. This period is also referred to as the Second Red Scare, and coincided with increased fears about communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents..."
  (Wikipedia)
  1 Origins of McCarthyism
  2 The institutions of McCarthyism
  2.1 The Executive Branch 2.1.1 Loyalty-security reviews 2.1.2 J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI 2.2 HUAC 2.3 Senate Committees 2.4 Blacklists
  2.5 Laws and arrests
  3 Popular support for McCarthyism
  4 Views of Communists
  5 Victims of McCarthyism
  6 Critical reactions
  7 The decline of McCarthyism
  8 Continuing controversy 8.1 Current use of the term...

• The Hollywood Ten (1950) = "an American 16mm short documentary.
  In the short, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech to denounce McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklisting."
  (Wikipedia)

• McCarthyism (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk)

• McCarthyism (PBS)

• McCARTHY, Joseph Raymond, (1908 - 1957) - (bioguide.congress.gov)

  

Videos :

• Build a timeline of videos using "McCarthyism" (dipity.com)

• The Hollywood 10
  "a movie about blacklisted filmmakers during the Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s."
  (YouTube)

• McCarthy Black List - "A documentary defending the Hollywood Ten"
  (dailymotion.com)

• Good Night, And Good Luck
  "A riveting speech given by David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow from the George Clooney film, 'Good Night, And Good Luck'."
  (Speech on Freedom of Speech .)
  (YouTube)

• Edward R. Murrow - Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS
  Video + Text version transcribed directly from audio
  (americanrhetoric.com)

• She's a witch! - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  (YouTube)

   

Theatre / Films :

• The Crucible
  "The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play written in the early 1950s during the time of McCarthyism, when the government blacklisted accused communists."
  + Film adaptations
  (Wikipedia)