J. Edgar Hoover Movies

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the...