J. Edgar Hoover Movies

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...

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

When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every family...

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

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

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

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today. Few...

true crime

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

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

This special seeks to explain the enigmatic Oswald using a brand new approach. No other documentary has exclusively traced Oswald's actions in the...

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...

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

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fulton Sheen was a best-selling religious writer, popular broadcaster, and television celebrity. He was watched and followed by millions of people...

This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA about the subversive groups within the country...

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

A sizzling look at the one, the only, J. Edgar Hoover-a man whose very name conjures up images of top level law enforcement and respect. Having...