J. Edgar Hoover Movies

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts...

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

A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean...

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after...

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes,...

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which...

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and...

This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a...

An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

There is a vast increase of youth crime, doubling in the two years since the US entered World War II. With fathers off to war, women are working in...

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for...

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s....

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...