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...

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...

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...

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

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

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his...

Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th...

A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation)...

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

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