J. Edgar Hoover Movies

  • 2013
    After Newtown: Guns in America

    After Newtown: Guns in America

    After Newtown: Guns in America

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

    After Newtown: Guns in America
  • 2012
    Who Bombed Judi Bari?

    Who Bombed Judi Bari?

    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 on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for...

    Who Bombed Judi Bari?
  • 2014
    Documenting John Grierson

    Documenting John Grierson

    Documenting John Grierson

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    The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

    Documenting John Grierson
  • 1940
    Parole Fixer

    Parole Fixer

    Parole Fixer

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    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...

    Parole Fixer
  • 2010
    COINTELPRO 101

    COINTELPRO 101

    COINTELPRO 101

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

    COINTELPRO 101
  • 1968
    Revolution Underway

    Revolution Underway

    Revolution Underway

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

    Revolution Underway
  • 2014
    Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

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

    Freedom Summer
  • 2007
    Oswald's Ghost

    Oswald's Ghost

    Oswald's Ghost

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    For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...

    Oswald's Ghost
  • 2010
    Roads to Memphis

    Roads to Memphis

    Roads to Memphis

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

    Roads to Memphis
  • 1951
    A Day With The F.B.I.

    A Day With The F.B.I.

    A Day With The F.B.I.

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

    A Day With The F.B.I.
  • 1943
    Youth in Crisis

    Youth in Crisis

    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. With fathers off to war, women are working in...

    Youth in Crisis
  • 1947
    Communism Condemned

    Communism Condemned

    Communism Condemned

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

    Communism Condemned