
Writing
In February 1941, Bernstein was drafted into the U.S. Army. Eventually attaining the rank of Sergeant, he spent most of World War II as a correspondent on the staff of the Army newspaper Yank, filing dispatches from Iran, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Yugoslavia. He wrote of his experiences in Palestine in an article entitled "War and Palestine".
Bernstein wrote a number of articles and stories based on his experiences in the Army, many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. These were collected in Keep Your Head Down, his first book, published in 1945.
Bernstein first …

Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar'
as Self
Imitation of Life: The Blacklist History of High Noon

A War in Hollywood
as Self - Screenwriter

Trumbo
as Self - Interviewee

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
as Self

The Tramp and the Dictator
as Self (uncredited)

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
as Self

On Cukor
as Self

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
as Self

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
as Self