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![J. Edgar Hoover Documentary](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This scathing documentary chronicles the career of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI for more than 40 years. His lifelong obsession with communists that began with the “Red Scare” of the early 1920s and manifested itself into a mission hell-bent on eradicating anyone suspected of engaging in anti-American activities, be they actors, politicians or protest groups.
A masterful propagandist, Hoover took every opportunity given him to create a public atmosphere of outsider paranoia – and his fears ran deep. By the time of his death in 1972, Hoover’s FBI had compiled thousands of individual secret files and completed countless illegal operations.
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A gritty but essential documentary charting social turbulences in late 1960's Chicago. American Revolution 2 includes footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention protest and riot, a critique of the events by working class African-Americans in Chicago, and attempts by the Black Panther Party to organize poor, southern white youths on the city's north side. Using direct sound, a handheld camera, no script, black-and-white film stock, and natural lighting, the directors' no-frills approach appropriately reflects the raw energy of this upheaval.
This scathing documentary chronicles the career of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI for more than 40 years. His lifelong obsession with communists that began with the “Red Scare” of the early 1920s and manifested itself into a mission hell-bent on eradicating anyone suspected of engaging in anti-American activities, be they actors, politicians or protest groups.
A masterful propagandist, Hoover took every opportunity given him to create a public atmosphere of outsider paranoia – and his fears ran deep. By the time of his death in 1972, Hoover’s FBI had compiled thousands of individual secret files and completed countless illegal operations.
![Footage from National Archives (II)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 112Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
"You Can't Get Away With It," a Universal short on the FBI, as referred to as 'G-men.'- positive spin with footage of J. Edgar Hoover. "Courtroom Demeanor and Testimony," by the Peace Officers' Association of the State of California, Inc. is an informative short on what title suggests. Footage of unknown case, courthouse packed. Unedited clips of J. Edgar Hoover giving an address to US public about internal threats.
![Footage from National Archives (III)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 113Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage of FBI Academy, FBI Firearms Ranges, and FBI training simulations. FBI presents "Document Examination," a short on what title suggests. Discover Magazine presents "Highlights from Conference on 'Terrorism in a Technological World,'" with footage of President Ronald Reagan's speech on US policy towards terrorists; Edwin Meese III, US Attorney General, on the necessity of an antiterrorism policy, Vice President George Bush on the language of the policy and terrorism as greatest threat to democracy. Army-Navy Screen Magazine presents "Battle of the United States," with J. Edgar Hoover.
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