J. Edgar Hoover Movies

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

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

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

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