Movie Summary: [Drama]

    New York 1930's. Orson Welles stages a controversial musical about a steel strike under the Federal Theatre Program--and gets shut down by government decree. This film, based on a true story, explores the psychological split in the U.S. over New Deal policies; the uneasy relationship between corporate power and the arts; the forces of Communism and Fascism abroad and their influence on workers in the United States; and the connection between a struggling Europe preparing for war and industrial opportunism in America.