J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisitions

A Comprehensive Look at the Most Feared Man in the FBI

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, 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 theitime of his death in 1972, Hoover´s FBI had compiled thousands of individual secret files and completed countless illegal operations.