Cloak and Dagger 
A dizzying spy saga spanning the European continent, this virtuoso thriller from Fritz Lang is an underrated gem in the director’s body of work. Gary Cooper stars as the midwestern nuclear physicist reluctantly recruited by the US Office of Strategic Services for undercover work abroad tracking down Nazi Germany’s plans for an atom bomb. Allying with an Italian band of resistance fighters led by a bravura Lilli Palmer (in her Hollywood debut), Cooper finds himself the prey in Lang’s crackerjack cat-and-mouse games. Screenwriters Albert Maltz and Ring Lardner, Jr. were both among the blacklisted Hollywood Ten.  

None Shall Escape
The only Hollywood film made during World War II to depict the Holocaust, None Shall Escape was released 17 months before the fall of the Third Reich. Framed around a postwar session of the International Tribunal of War Crimes, the film uses the trial of an everyman-turned-psychotic-brownshirt (Alexander Knox) to portray the horrors of the Nazi Party. Directed by Hungarian-born Andre de Toth, the film’s screenwriter is among the incarcerated Hollywood Ten: Lester Cole. Both Knox and his co-star Marsha Hunt would also be victims of the Red Scare.