Lyndon B. Johnson

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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

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Self (archive photo)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Self (archive footage)

We Were Soldiers

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Da 5 Bloods

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

13th

Self (archive footage)

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Self - Politician (archive footage)

When You're Strange

Self (archive footage)

The Vietnam War

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Under the Flags, the Sun MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	Cover-Up MOVIE	Self - 36th President of the United States (archive footage)
2025	JFK Assassination: A New Perspective MOVIE	Self (Archive Footage)
2025	Legacy - The Bob Houghton Story MOVIE	Self (voice)
2025	America at War MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	The Beach Boys MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Apollo 13: Survival MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	The Lady Bird Diaries MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam MOVIE	Himself
2023	Bill Russell: Legend TV	Self - 36th President of the United States (archive footage)
2022	Riotsville, USA MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	Ocean Beach - The Forgotten City TV	Self
2021	Fiasco TV	Self (archive footage)
2021	Money, Explained TV	Self (archive footage)
2021	The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Big Data, Big Brother MOVIE	Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020	The Soul of America MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Ku Klux Klan: An American Story TV	Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020	First Ladies TV	Self (archive footage)
2020	Whose Vote Counts, Explained TV	Self (archive footage)
2020	The Way I See It MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Helter Skelter: An American Myth TV	Self (archive footage)
2020	John Lewis: Good Trouble MOVIE	Self (archive Footage)
2020	John Lewis: Good Trouble MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Uncle Tom MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Da 5 Bloods MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020	Killing John F. Kennedy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	History 101 TV	Self (archive footage)
2019	Laboratory Greece MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Modern Korea TV	Self (archive footage)
2019	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Korea: The Never-Ending War MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2019	The Green Book: Guide to Freedom MOVIE	Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018	A Greater Society MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Won't You Be My Neighbor? MOVIE	Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018	The Road to Mass Incarceration MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Explained TV	Self (archive footage)
2018	Bobby Kennedy for President TV	Self (archive footage)
2018	Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Arthur Miller: Writer MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	The Vietnam War TV	Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017	Код доступа TV	Self
2017	De Gaulle, the Last King of France MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	13th MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	Houston, We Have a Problem! MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)
2016	Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	The Prison in Twelve Landscapes MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	Race for the White House TV	Self (archive footage)
2015	Klansville U.S.A. MOVIE	Self (archive Footage)
2014	JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	Unwarranted Influence MOVIE	Self
2014	Freedom Summer MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	JFK: One PM Central Standard Time MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	The Presidents' Gatekeepers MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	Confessions From the Grassy Knoll: The Shocking Truth MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	Our Nixon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	The Untold History Of The United States MOVIE	Self
2012	Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States TV	Self
2012	The House I Live In MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012	The Day That Lasted 21 Years MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	41 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	MLK: The Assassination Tapes MOVIE	Self (archive Footage)
2011	Taking the Oath: America's History From Oval Office TV	Self (archive footage)
2011	Reagan MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	When You're Strange MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	Did the Mob Kill JFK? MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2009	The Most Dangerous Man in America MOVIE	Self - President (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)
2009	Picturing the Presidents MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	The 60s: The Beatles Decade TV	Self
2008	Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	All the Presidents' Wives MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	Oswald's Ghost MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2007	Sputnik Mania MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	The Presidents TV	Self (archive footage)
2003	Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	JFK: Breaking the News MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live! TV	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002	The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	We Were Soldiers MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002	The American Friend MOVIE	Self (archival footage)
2000	Mondo Ford MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2000	Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' MOVIE	Self (voice) (archive footage)
1999	Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1999	The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1998	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas MOVIE	Self (archive photo)
1998	Secrets of the CIA MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1996	Inside the White House MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1994	Freedom on My Mind MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1994	Shanks for the Memory MOVIE	Self
1993	A Norman Rockwell Christmas MOVIE	Self (voice)
1992	The JFK Conspiracy MOVIE	Self
1991	LBJ MOVIE	Himself
1991	Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1991	Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1990	Hồ Chí Minh - Portrait of A Man MOVIE	Self (archival footage)
1989	For All Mankind MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1989	John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1988	American Experience TV	Self (archive footage)
1985	Backstage at the White House MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1985	Disasters of the Century MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1982	The Atomic Cafe MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1981	The Killing of America MOVIE	Self (archive footage, uncredited)
1980	On Company Business MOVIE	Self - US President (archive footage)
1979	The War at Home MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1974	Hearts and Minds MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1973	Executive Action MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1973	Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective) MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1972	Lenny Bruce: Without Tears MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1969	Lions Love MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969	Hanoi, Tuesday 13th MOVIE	Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
1968	The President, April 1968 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1968	Revolution Underway MOVIE	Self
1968	LBJ MOVIE	Self
1967	Videotape Study No. 3 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1966	The Making of the President: 1964 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1965	The Day of the Oath MOVIE	Self
1965	Why Vietnam? MOVIE	Self (as Lyndon Johnson)
1964	Four Days In November MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1964	Faces of November MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1963	World in Action TV	Self
	Agent Number 9 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
	Spartamerika MOVIE	Self (archive footage)

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