J. Edgar Hoover / 1987

He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover / 1977

The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.

The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover / 1993

For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades. The American Mafia, it is asserted, had damaging evidence about Hoover's sex life and they knew about his homosexuality.

J. Edgar Hoover – Le plus grand ripou d'Amérique / 2007

J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions / 2006

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.

J. Edgar / 20116.5366 voti

Nominato capo dell'FBI dal Presidente Calvin Coolidge, J. Edgar Hoover è un giovane uomo ambizioso nell'America proibizionista. Figlio di un padre debole e di una madre autoritaria, Edgar è ossessionato dalla sicurezza del Paese e dai criminali che la minacciano a suon di bombe e volantini. Avviata una lotta senza esclusione di colpi contro bolscevichi, radicali, gangster e delinquenti di ogni risma, il direttore federale attraversa la storia americana costruendosi una reputazione irreprensibile e inattaccabile. A farne le spese sono i suoi nemici, reali o supposti, tutti ugualmente ricattabili dai dossier confidenziali raccolti, archiviati e custoditi da Helen Gandy, fedele segretaria che rifiutò il suo corteggiamento e ne sposò la causa. Quarantotto anni di 'azioni' (il)legali, otto presidenti e un sentimento dissimulato dopo, quello per il collaboratore Clyde Tolson, Edgar detterà la sua biografia e le sue imprese.