Biography
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by the initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate.
Known For
Complete Filmography

America at War
2025
as Self (archive footage)
The United States of America has been at war for almost all of its 250 years of existence. From the wars of independence to current armed conflicts, i...

The Beach Boys
2024
as Self (archive footage)
A celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream...

Apollo 13: Survival
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Created for the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy, this is a unique, moment-by-moment view of the events in Dallas, Texas on the...

The Lady Bird Diaries
2023
as Self (archive footage)
From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes "The Lady Bird Diaries," a groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of...
The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam
2023
as Himself
America's involvement in the Vietnam War dramatically intensified in 1964 after the Tonkin Gulf incident, an incident in which the blame falls squarel...

Riotsville, USA
2022
as Self (archive footage)
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a moc...

Tunnel to Freedom
2021
as Self (archive footage)
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But o...

The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress follows the new presidential aircraft's creation, diving into how it transformed into a top-secret command cent...

I Am Jackie O
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was the most famous woman in the world, impossibly glamourous and universally admired. She was also complex, layered, and extre...

Big Data, Big Brother
2020
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell (1903-50) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the genius authors of the two most groundbreaking novels of a...

The Soul of America
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the count...

The Way I See It
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.

John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
as Self (archive Footage)
The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality....

John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality....

Uncle Tom
2020
as Self (archive footage)
In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a different look at being ...

Da 5 Bloods
2020
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried tre...

Killing John F. Kennedy
2020
as Self (archive footage)
John F Kennedy was one of America's greatest presidents. He was the voice of the people who was a natural public speaker and a cool calm figure in fro...

Laboratory Greece
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly hau...

Korea: The Never-Ending War
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confron...

Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019
as Self (archive footage)
"Rigged" shows viewers just what Republicans did – and continue to do – from creating new barriers to voter registration, to purging American citizens...

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help Afric...

A Greater Society
2018
as Self (archive footage)
It’s the 2014 midterms and residents of a South Florida retirement community feel the weight of democracy on their shoulders. In one of the most influ...

Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppet...

The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
as Self
This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the ef...

Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man
2018
as Self (archive footage)
National Geographic documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. helps drive change in the United States in the face of bitter opposition, not least from opp...

Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018
as Self (archive footage)
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much ...

Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...

De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was s...

13th
2016
as Self (archive footage)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016
as Self (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)
The cold war, the space race, and NASA’s moon landing are landmark events that defined an era. But they are also fodder for conspiracy theories. In Ho...

Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
2016
as Self (archive footage)
More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt furthe...

Klansville U.S.A.
2015
as Self (archive Footage)
Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the cou...

JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, all the way to 9/11 and the current age of the ter...

Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new era of the television attack ad. The campaign also r...

Unwarranted Influence
2014
An intense examination of the military industrial complex, from President Eisenhower to the modern day.

Freedom Summer
2014
as Self (archive footage)
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freed...

JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
2013
as Self (archive footage)
A special recounting the riveting story of the reporting from Dallas and the New York CBS Newsroom from the moment President Kennedy was shot until Cr...

The Presidents' Gatekeepers
2013
as Self (archive footage)
An analysis of what the role of the Chief of Staff is in his position at the service of the President of the United States of America and how it has b...

Confessions From the Grassy Knoll: The Shocking Truth
2013
as Self (Archive Footage & Photos)
An investigation into the story of a man who confessed to firing the fatal shot that killed JFK from the Grassy Knoll in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, ...

Propaganda
2013
as Self (archive footage)
An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean ...

Our Nixon
2013
as Self
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate...

The Untold History Of The United States
2012
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.

The House I Live In
2012
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished commu...

The Day That Lasted 21 Years
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original White Hous...

41
2012
as Self (archive footage)
An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
as Self (archive Footage)
Relive an unspeakable tragedy detailed with unforgettable images, videos, and recordings only recently rediscovered.

Reagan
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president, Rona...

The Kennedy Detail
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Based on the book by Gerald S. Blaine With Lisa McCubbin "The Kennedy Detail", this documentary interviews the men who served on President JFK's Secre...

The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination
2009
as Self (archive footage)
President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination in Dallas has sparked decades of questions and controversy. The "lost" JFK recordings made available fo...

Did the Mob Kill JFK?
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Did the Mafia order the killing of JFK? The compelling evidence includes a never before seen interview with an FBI informant who shared a prison cell ...

The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After
2009
as Self (archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes look at November 22, 1963 from the unique perspective of Lyndon Johnson. On his pivotal first day as President, Lyndon Johnson is ...

The Most Dangerous Man in America
2009
as Self - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)
"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determinati...

Picturing the Presidents
2009
as Self (archive footage)
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House
2008
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary profiles iconic journalist Helen Thomas who has held a front-row seat at White House press conferences for more than 60 years.

All the Presidents' Wives
2008
as Self (archive footage)
A look at the women who has served as First Ladies of the United States.

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
as Self (archive footage)
On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that ripp...

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008
as Self (archive footage)
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...

Chicago 10
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic Natio...

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
2007
as Self (archive footage)
A new investigative documentary exploring the controversies surrounding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he looked set to challen...

Oswald's Ghost
2007
as Self (archive footage)
For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did...

Sputnik Mania
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth, bringing America to its knees in aw...

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Forty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, more than 80% of Americans still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. This docume...

JFK: Breaking the News
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Looking back over 40 years television and print journalists recall their stories and memories of reporting the murder of President Kennedy and how it ...

The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel
2002
as Self (archive footage)
One of the dominating figures in Elvis Presley's life was his manager, who was known as the "Colonel". No other relationship in Elvis' life was as con...

We Were Soldiers
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Mondo Ford
2000
as Archive Footage
Dir. Scott Calonico's film purports to solve the assassination of President Kennedy, pointing the finger at President Gerald Ford...as well as bigfoot...

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Be...

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century’s most memorable moments — the dramatic “Black Power” demonstration of American sprinters Tommie Smi...

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
1999
as Self (archive footage)
On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing event has led to many un...

Secrets of the CIA
1998
as Self (archive footage)
It fought against international terrorism in South America and watched out for our allies abroad...but what else did it do?...What are the true secret...

Inside the White House
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program from National Geographic takes viewers on an in-depth...

Forrest Gump
1994
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what any...

Freedom on My Mind
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.

Shanks for the Memory
1994
Visual treasure of the world of golf according to Bob Hope. Highlights include "How (he) Became a Golf Addict", "Best Advice Ever Given to (him) abou...

A Norman Rockwell Christmas
1993
as Self (voice)
Could there ever really be a Christmas without Norman Rockwell? For three generations, America's most beloved and popular artist treated us with his i...

LBJ
1991
as Himself
Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs, rivaling those of FDR's New Deal, th...

Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These events are described within the backdrop of the evoluti...

Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
1991
as Self (archive footage)
A special that takes a look inside the White House.

For All Mankind
1989
as Self (archive footage)
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary ...

John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation
1989
as Self (archive footage)
The Sixth Floor museum at Dealey Plaza presents a group of six short films about the life, death and enduring legacy of John F. Kennedy that are shown...

Backstage at the White House
1985
as Self (archive footage)
This unique glimpse into the private lives of our Presidents and their families showcases some of the most significant personal moments they have expe...

Disasters of the Century
1985
as Self (archive footage)
This entry in the "Reel Moments" video series contains newsreel and archive footage of famous 20th century disasters, including: the collapse of the T...

The Atomic Cafe
1982
as Self (archive footage)
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was no...

The Killing of America
1981
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary of the decline of America. Featuring footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.

On Company Business
1980
as Self - US President (archive footage)
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.

The War at Home
1979
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and inter...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Hearts and Minds
1974
as Self (archive footage)
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 ...

Executive Action
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...
Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective)
1973
as Self (archive footage)
A 1964-1973 Retrospective for homecoming POWs.

Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
1972
as Self (archive footage)
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a clos...

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activi...

Lions Love
1969
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
1969
as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this sh...

The President, April 1968
1968
as Self (archive footage)
The film captures the pivotal events surrounding President Lyndon Johnson's historic address on March 31st, focusing on his decision to halt bombing i...

Revolution Underway
1968
This color propaganda film made National Education Program (NEP) as a warning to citizens of the USA about the subversive groups within the country lo...

LBJ
1968
as Self
This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed ...
Videotape Study No. 3
1967
as Self (archive footage)
Part of a collection of restored early works by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, this piece is historically significant as well as remarkably prescient. ...

The Making of the President: 1964
1966
as Self (archive footage)
Acclaimed producer David L. Wolper presents this landmark documentary (based on Theodore H. White's best-selling book) that analyzes Democrat Lyndon B...

Four Days In November
1964
as Self (archive footage)
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Peace, little girl
1964
as Self (voice)
"Daisy," sometimes known as "Daisy Girl" or "Peace, Little Girl," is a controversial political advertisement that aired on television during the Septe...

Faces of November
1964
as Self (uncredited)
Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 200...
Agent Number 9
N/A
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of former U.S. Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, who served under five United States presidents from Eisenhower to Ford a...