Herblock: The Black & the White

Illuminating feature documentary traces the long and influential career of Herbert Block, better known as "Herblock," whose editorial cartoons in The Washington Post gave America a powerful moral voice for over half a century. From multiple Emmy® Award winners Michael Stevens and George Stevens, Jr., this documentary film is a defining portrait of arguably the greatest editorial cartoonist in American history, Herbert L. Block, whose signature "Herblock" was affixed to countless memorable cartoons published daily for 55 years. Former colleagues and fans like Tom Brokaw, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ted Koppel, Lewis Black, Gwen Ifill and Jon Stewart speak on-camera about Block's life, work and indelible influence in American culture. As we learn, his cartoons kept Washington politicians on their toes and provided disenfranchised Americans a moral voice during pivotal moments in 20th Century history, including the Great Depression, WWII, the age of McCarthyism (a term he coined), the Civil Rights era, Vietnam, Watergate, the Lewinsky scandal and beyond. (HBO Europe)