J. Edgar Hoover
Date of birth: 1895-01-01
Place of birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.
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Arthur Miller: Writer
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Freedom Summer
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Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
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Documenting John Grierson
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The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
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A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir
A Day With The F.B.I.
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The FBI Story
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientifi
Youth in Crisis
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There is a vast increase of youth crime, doubling in the two years since the US entered World War II
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
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A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded
COINTELPRO 101
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COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US gov
Hearts and Minds
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Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de
Revolution Underway
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This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA
J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions
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A sizzling look at the one, the only, J. Edgar Hoover-a man whose very name conjures up images of to
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
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A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
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Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while
After Newtown: Guns in America
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Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the Ne
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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Oswald's Ghost
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MLK/FBI
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Chaplin vs the FBI
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How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or c
Roads to Memphis
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The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. M
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
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A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Super
1971
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Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight acti
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Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
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Heir To An Execution
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When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, th
The Real Malcolm X
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CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, sug