Tukufu Zuberi
Tukufu Zuberi( born April 26, 1959) is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and writer.
Zuberi has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora, including( 2002), and" 500 Years Later"( 2005).
He is one of the hosts of the long- running PBS program" History Detectives".
As founder of his own production company, he produced the film" African Independence", which premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January 2013.
He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department, and professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
African Independence
African Independence is a 2013 feature- length documentary film and the directorial debut of sociologist Tukufu Zuberi, who also hosts the film.
The film premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival in January 2013 and in 2015, Zuberi published a companion book through Rowman& Littlefield.
I Was a Communist for the FBI
I Was a Communist for the FBI is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas starring Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey and James Millican.
The film was produced by Bryan Foy who was head of Warners B picture unit until 1942.
It was also a radio show starring Dana Andrews with 78 episodes that ran from April 23, 1952 until October 14, 1953.
The film was based on a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in" The Saturday Evening Post".
The stories were later turned into a best- selling book and radio series.
The story follows Cvetic, who infiltrated a local Communist Party cell for nine years and reported back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation( FBI) on their activities.
The film and radio show are, in part, artifacts of the McCarthy era, as well as a time capsule of American society during the Second Red Scare.
The purpose of both is partly to warn people about the threat of Communist subversion of American society.
The tone of the show is ultra-patriotic, with Communists portrayed as racist, vindictive, and tools of a totalitarian foreign power, the Soviet Union.
Richard Webb (actor)
John Richard Webb( September 9, 1915 – June 10, 1993) was an American film, television and radio actor, originally from Bloomington, Illinois, the son of John Renner Webb and Laura Gail Gunnett.
He appeared in more than fifty films, including many westerns and films noir including" Out of the Past"( 1947)," Night Has a Thousand Eyes"( 1948)," I Was a Communist for the FBI"( 1951) and" Carson City"( 1952).
Today, he may be best remembered as the star of the 1950s television series," Captain MidnightJet Jackson, Flying Commando" in syndication), based on a long- running radio program of the same name and" Border Patrol".
Matt Cvetic
Matthew" Matt" Cvetic( March 4, 1909 – July 26, 1962) was a Pittsburgh native who was a spy and informant working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation inside the Communist Party of the United States( CPUSA) during the 1940s.
He told his story in a series in the" Saturday Evening Post", and his experiences were then fictionalized in the old time radio show" I Was a Communist for the FBI", adapted for a Warner Brothers motion picture in 1951.
He testified before the House Un- American Activities Committee in the 1950s.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.
Gordon Douglas (director)
Gordon Douglas( December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five- decade career in motion pictures.
He was a native of New York City.
Jacques Décombe
Jacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953.

Question: Which film has the director born later, African Independence or I Was A Communist For The Fbi?
Answer: African Independence