J. Edgar Hoover

"Martin Luther King y el FBI" pone en evidencia la fuerza que Martin Luther King tenía y la amenaza que esto suponía para el gobierno norteamericano. Lo consideraban "el negro más peligroso en América".Martin Luther King es conocido en todas partes del mundo. En todos los rincones del planeta han escuchado la historia de uno de los activistas por los derechos civiles de los negros que más ha conseguido hasta el momento. Era capaz de mover masas como si de una estrella de rock se tratase y su discurso "tengo un sueño" es conocido por todos pero, ¿cómo lo veía La casa blanca y qué supuso para él todo esto?

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

National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in the face of bitter opposition, not least from opponents within the U.S. government; King is subjected to a fierce campaign of intimidation by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

La película de Rebecca Miller es un retrato de su padre, su época y sus observaciones, construido alrededor de entrevistas improvisadas grabadas en el hogar familiar durante años.

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local FBI offices to leak stolen documents and expose the illegal surveillance of ordinary Americans in an era of anti-war activism. In this riveting heist story, the perpetrators reveal themselves for the first time, reflecting on their actions and raising broader questions surrounding security leaks in activism today.

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.

Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years.

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

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

El 22 de noviembre de 1963, mataron de un tiro al presidente John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald, el único detenido por el crimen, también fue asesinado dos días más tarde. Más de 40 años después, su muerte sigue siendo un misterio sin resolverse. El magnicidio de J.F.K. fue uno de los escándalos más sonados y que causó una mayor conmoción en la sociedad del siglo XX, no sólo en los Estados Unidos sino en el mundo entero. Las características del crimen y la intriga que envolvió la posterior investigación, que quedaría sin resolver, favoreció que infinidad de libros, películas y producciones de todo tipo fueran creados partiendo de este suceso.

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 served tirelessly as director of the FBI for more than 40 years, J. Edgar's life was chock-full of secret investigations that were as much responsible for preserving freedom and stamping out Communism as any U.S. President that ever served.

A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle.

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

A documentary destined to calmly explain and analyze the facts, myths and rumours about John Kennedy's assassination and the overwhelming use of information in Oliver Stone's epic "JFK" (1991), at the same time it presents a behind the scenes documentary on the controversial film. Features interviews with the cast and director, and the personalities who lived and remember the facts concerning the November 22, 1963, like reporters, eyewitnesses and others, and some of the real characters from the movie, like Jim Garrison, Numa Bertel, Lou Ivon and Perry Russo.

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

Aclamado documental sobre los efectos de la Guerra del Vietnam en dicho país. Ganador del Oscar al mejor documental en 1975.

This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA about the subversive groups within the country looking to destroy the American system and its people. It dates to 1968, one of the most chaotic years in 20th Century American history.

Un agente del gobierno busca una célula de pérfidos infiltrados comunistas en Boston.

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

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 the factories leaving children at home for the day or after school, unsupervised and free to get into trouble. Young men and women, some working and making an adult wage, now feel that they have the right to act and do as adults. Others are trying their hands at new thrills, such as smoking marijuana. Young women are getting into trouble by getting involved with the many servicemen that they are attracted to. This film shows how these kinds of subversive thoughts that lead to juvenile delinquency can be broken by having youths selling war bonds and organizing 4-H clubs, among other activities.

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

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 system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.

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