The Hollywood Ten (1950)

The Hollywood Ten (1950) is a documentary short from the heart of the film noir era dealing with the heart of the film noir issue as it deals HUAC-style with the predictive enforced persecution of American citizens in the form of ten Hollywood working men who were found in contempt of the House Un American Committee in the early hey day of American political persecution, indeed back in the days when it meant so much more, to so many more. 

This was not a social media event, but prefigures some of our crazed modern censoring in a few material manners.

Champion (1949)

Champion (1949) is a sports-noir drifter narrative boxing film noir rags to riches drama of hubris and corruption, starring Kirk Douglas as a one time bum who finds he is a great boxer, and makes an all-American stab at gaining the all-American system of fight-rigging, mobsterism, and big sport gambling and media.

A remarkable and entertaining vehicle for the young Kirk Douglas, for whom this was a certain break-through role, Champion (1949) is not lauded much as a great noir, although it is, with first rate performances and high drama and emotion, sweeping through much of American social systems and presenting as well as any other high-period film noir does, the story of the individual against himself, against the country, against the insurmountable cruelty and manipulations of the system that elevates sport to the wild, corrupted and abusive focal point of life it will become.