J. Edgar Hoover
Birthday: 1895-01-01
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography: John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.
Movies
Arthur Miller: Writer
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...
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Freedom Summer
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in...
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir...
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A Day With The F.B.I.
U.S. government film that examines the duties of an FBI employee....
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The FBI Story
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist s...
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientifi...
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Youth in Crisis
There is a vast increase of youth crime, doubling in the two years since the US entered World War II...
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded...
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COINTELPRO 101
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US gov...
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Hearts and Minds
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...
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Revolution Underway
This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA...
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J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions
A sizzling look at the one, the only, J. Edgar Hoover-a man whose very name conjures up images of to...
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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by...
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Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while ...
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After Newtown: Guns in America
Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the Ne...
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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. Thi...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Oswald's Ghost
For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of trage...
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MLK/FBI
Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment...
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Communism Condemned
Universal newsreel recounts the proceedings at the House Un-American Activities Committee...
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Chaplin vs the FBI
How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or c...
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Roads to Memphis
The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. M...
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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Super...
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1971
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight acti...
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The Majestic
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
Documentary - This special seeks to explain the enigmatic Oswald using a brand new approach. No othe...
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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Heir To An Execution
When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, th...
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The Real Malcolm X
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, sug...
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