J. Edgar Hoover

1950'lilerin başı... Soğuk savaş döneminde anti-komünist hareketler zirve noktasına ulaşmıştır. Peter, Hollywood'un altın çağını yaşamaya başladığı bugünlerde büyük stüdyolardan biriyle anlaşmalı çalışan bir senaryo yazarıdır ve de işleri iyi gitmektedir. Ancak, kolejdeyken katıldığı bir komünist toplantı başına dert açar. Kara listeye alındığını ve yakalanacağını öğrenir. Kariyeri, daha başlamadan sona ermiştir. Oldukça içkili bir durumdayken arabasıyla bir köprüden aşağı uçar. Hafızasını kaybeden Peter kendini hiç tanımadığı bir kasabada bulur. Asıl ilginç olanı ise buradaki herkesin onu 9.5 yıl önce savaşta öldüğü düşünülen Luke Trimble sanmasıdır.

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

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

The Real Charlie Chaplin, sessiz sinema denildiğinde akla gelen ilk isimlerden biri olan usta komedyenin hayatı ve kariyerini konu ediniyor. Belgesel film, dünya çapındaki ikonun bilinmeyen yanlarını ortaya çıkarmak için daha önce hiç duyulmamış kayıtlar, samimi ev röportajları, sahne arkası materyalleri ve yakın zamanda restore edilmiş klasik filmlerle Chaplin arşivlerine eşi görülmemiş bir erişim sergileyecek. Chaplin’in bir asırdan fazla bir süre önce ekrana ilk çıkışına kadar uzanan film, usta oyuncunun Viktorya dönemi Londra’sının kenar mahallelerinden Hollywood’un gözde yıldız oyuncusu olarak zirveye hızlıca yükselişi ve skandallı düşüşü de dahil olmak üzere her şeyi anlatmayı hedefliyor. Belgesel film aynı zamanda şu soruyu soruyor: Gerçek Charlie Chaplin kimdi? “Ölümsüz bir efsane haline gelen bir adamın sürekli değişen portresi” olarak tanımlanan The Real Charlie Chaplin, dünya çapındaki ikonun gizemli hayatına büyüleyici bir bakış olmayı vaat ediyor.

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

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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.

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.

The fight for racial equality came at a cost. Martin Luther King Jr. rose as a powerful voice for justice, yet was seen as a threat by some. Declassified records fuel questions about whether more lay behind the silencing of his voice.

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 Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"

A 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.

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

Kızı Rebecca'nın derledikleri görüntülerden, zamanımızın en önemli oyun yazarlarından, Pulitzer ödüllü Arthur Miller...

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 member refused to take them in. Documentarian Ivy Meeropol, raised to believe in her grandparents' innocence, begins investigating what actually happened, interviewing family members and friends. With declassified papers indicating Julius was participating in espionage in some capacity, Ivy tries to understand the beliefs that drove the couple.

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

This special seeks to explain the enigmatic Oswald using a brand new approach. No other documentary has exclusively traced Oswald's actions in the minutes, hours and days following the events in Dallas. By shifting the focus on that November weekend, we're able to tell a familiar story in an unfamiliar way, providing a refreshing new perspective on Oswald himself, as well as on the Kennedy assassination.

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.

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

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features compelling contributions from scientists, historians, witnesses and experiencers—each seeking to shed light on how the seemingly impossible actually can happen.

Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of America's most iconic First Ladies is a bold revision of each woman's traditional portrayal, revealing how they were impacted during their time in the White House, and how their achievements fundamentally shaped American and global history.

Kargaşalı bir dönem olan 1971, zamanın siyasi ve kültürel ayaklanmalarının körüklediği bir müzikal yenilik ve yeniden doğuş yılıydı. Yıldızlar yeni zirvelere ulaştı, yeni yetenekler ortaya çıktı ve sınırlar daha önce hiç olmadığı kadar genişledi.

This two-part documentary takes a deep dive into the final weeks of her life, investigating her relationship with known mobsters like Sam Giancana and how she became a pawn in the Mafia's power plays. As we explore the blurred lines between Hollywood, politics, and organized crime, the series speculates on whether Monroe knew too much and whether her death was more than a tragic overdose.

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism in the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights in the sixties, the rise of the far-right in the early 21st century; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.

Fascinating biographies featuring the lives and personalities of some of the most notorious mobsters: Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, John Dillinger, Sam Giancana, Bonnie and Clyde, Dutch Schultz, Meyer Lansky, 'Lucky' Luciano, and Mickey Cohen.

Pulling back the curtain on the complex and high stakes relationship between the FBI Director and U.S. President, this series explores their pivotal moments of tension, the FBI's delicate neutrality and its national security implications.