J. Edgar Hoover Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...