American Experience
1988
star 6.6
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understand...
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Acting
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring J. Edgar Hoover
American Experience
1988
star 6.6
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understand...
The UnXplained
2019
star 6.7
Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features compelling cont...
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
star 7.6
In a tumultuous era, 1971 was a year of musical innovation and rebirth fueled by the political and cultural uph...
First Ladies
2020
star 5.3
Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of...
The Majestic
2001
star 6.8
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a sm...
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
star 5.9
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled...
Rogues Gallery
1997
Fascinating biographies featuring the lives and personalities of some of the most notorious mobsters: Al Capone...
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
2020
star 6.6
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been insepa...
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
star 7.0
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman...
Standoff: The FBI, Power and Paranoia
2026
Pulling back the curtain on the complex and high stakes relationship between the FBI Director and U.S. Presiden...
The FBI Story
1959
star 6.1
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
star 8.3
A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Am...
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
star 7.1
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a...
Hearts and Minds
1974
star 7.7
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon...
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
star 6.3
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment...
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
star 7.4
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then...
Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream
2026
star 4.0
The fight for racial equality came at a cost. Martin Luther King Jr. rose as a powerful voice for justice, yet...
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008
star 5.9
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that...
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth...
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
star 7.6
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life...
Freedom Summer
2014
star 7.2
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities...
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
star 8.0
The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreo...
Marilyn and the Mob
2026
This two-part documentary takes a deep dive into the final weeks of her life, investigating her relationship wi...
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
star 7.2
From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chro...
1971
2014
star 6.7
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plott...
MLK/FBI
2020
star 6.9
Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin...
Oswald's Ghost
2007
star 6.0
For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the S...
The Real Spies Among Friends
2022
star 8.0
Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
Heir To An Execution
2004
star 7.0
When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two chi...
The Real Malcolm X
1992
star 8.0
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting tha...
Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
2018
star 8.0
National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in the face o...
Documenting John Grierson
2014
The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
After Newtown: Guns in America
2013
star 9.5
Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to...
Chaplin vs the FBI
2019
star 9.2
How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or communist su...
COINTELPRO 101
2010
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in...