J. Edgar Hoover

Born: 1895-01-01

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.


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Hearts and Minds

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1974-12-20

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam...

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The FBI Story

as J. Edgar Hoover (uncredited)
Released: 1959-10-01

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and...

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Propaganda

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2013-02-14

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture...

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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-11-09

A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as...

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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-08-04

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House....

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Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1993-01-20

This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores...

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MLK/FBI

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-09-15

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and...

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COINTELPRO 101

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-05-07

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-08-06

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...

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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-07-27

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling...

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Arthur Miller: Writer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-12-08

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works...

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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-01-01

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the...

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After Newtown: Guns in America

as Self - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)
Released: 2013-02-19

Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in...

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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2008-03-24

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the...

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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2001-05-01

A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff...

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Chaplin vs the FBI

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-12-05

How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist...

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1971

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-04-18

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight...

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Revolution Underway

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-04-04

National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United...

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Freedom Summer

as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Released: 2014-01-17

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi....

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Oswald's Ghost

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-07-14

For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of...

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Who Bombed Judi Bari?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2012-03-02

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990...

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Youth in Crisis

as Self
Released: 1943-11-05

There is a vast increase of youth crime, doubling in the two years since the US entered World...

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Roads to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-05-03

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target,...

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J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions

as uncredited
Released: 2006-02-28

A sizzling look at the one, the only, J. Edgar Hoover-a man whose very name conjures up images...

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Communism Condemned

as Self
Released: 1947-03-27

Universal newsreel recounts the proceedings at the House Un-American Activities Committee

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A Day With The F.B.I.

as Self
Released: 1951-05-26

U.S. government film that examines the duties of an FBI employee.

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American Experience

as Self (voice) (archive footage)
First aired: 1988-10-04

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...

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Ku Klux Klan: An American Story

as Self - FBI Director (voice) (archive footage)
First aired: 2020-10-06

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan...

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The UnXplained

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2019-07-19

Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features...

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First Ladies

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2020-10-04

Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries...

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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2021-05-21

An immersive, deep-dive docuseries rich with archival footage and interviews that explores the...

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