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Tag: school shootings

  • The Columbine Killers (2008)

    The Columbine Killers (2008)

    Aired for the first time on Crime & Investigation Network in South Africa, “The Columbine Killers” is a fascinating documentary that aims to investigate the reasons behind the tragic murders of 12 high school students and a teacher at Columbine High School in 1999, by teenage killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

  • Going Postal: 15 Shocking Acts of Violence (2008)

    Going Postal: 15 Shocking Acts of Violence (2008)

    E! takes a look at some of the most horrific acts of violence in American criminal history. Cases include: The Jonesboro Middle School Massacre, The New Life Shootings, The Atlanta Day Trader Murders, The Dunblane School Massacre, The San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre, The Texas Tower Shootings, and many more

  • Playing Columbine (2008)

    Playing Columbine (2008)

    “Playing Columbine” is a terrific documentary that traces the controversial development of the 16bit video game “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!.” in which players experience the Columbine High School massacre through the eyes of the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold…

  • Montreal Massacre: Legacy of Pain (1999)

    Montreal Massacre: Legacy of Pain (1999)

    On December 6, 1989, Marc Lepine, a deranged anti-feminist, walked into a classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, ordered the women to one side of the room and began shooting. When the rampage was over, 14 young, female students lost their lives.

  • Mind of a Rampage Killer (2013)

    Mind of a Rampage Killer (2013)

    Fascinating look into the scientific work that is being conducted today to better understand the mental make-up of a mass shooter / spree killer … Noted cases mentioned in the documentary include: Charles Whitman (The Texas Tower Sniper); Charles Andrew Williams (The Santana High School shooter), Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold (The Columbine Killers); Adam…

  • Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (2015)

    Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (2015)

    From the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan, to the school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook, or Virginia Tech, to countless other mass shootings that occur every year, there has always been two constants in the United States: American citizens calling for gun-control legislation and the NRA’s (National Rifle Association) political attempts to thwart…

  • The Killer at Thurston High (2000)

    The Killer at Thurston High (2000)

    On May 21, 1998. expelled student Kip Kinkel first murdered his parents before engaging in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon that left two students dead and 25 others wounded. He is serving a 111-year sentence without the possibility of parole at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem, Oregon.

  • Killing Spree: Columbine Massacre (2014)

    Killing Spree: Columbine Massacre (2014)

    In 1999, students Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold would embark on a massacre that would make American criminal history.. the terrific “Killing Spree’ documentary series takes a look back at the tragic events & the people that were directly impacted on that fateful day..

  • Children of Beslan (2005)

    Children of Beslan (2005)

    On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia…more than a thousand children and adults were held hostage in a sweltering gymnasium, denied food and water, and forced to keep their hands over their heads. The harrowing siege ended on September 3 with a series…

  • Raising Adam Lanza (2013)

    Raising Adam Lanza (2013)

    In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever.. fascinating documentary looks for answers to the central – and so far elusive – question: Who was Adam Lanza?..

  • After Newtown: The Path to Violence (2013)

    After Newtown: The Path to Violence (2013)

    ‘After Newtown’ is an interesting PBS documentary series that examines American gun culture, the frightening rise of school shootings, mental illness and the different approaches used by local communities to detect and combat future violent attacks …

  • Massacre at Columbine High (2004)

    Massacre at Columbine High (2004)

    … minute-by-minute account of the Columbine High School massacre that horrified the world… featuring chilling video footage of Klebold and Harris, ‘Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High’ offers a real insight into the twisted minds that devised a devastating plan too horrific to believe and then carried it out with cruel and fanatic precision….

  • Newtown (2012)

    Newtown (2012)

    Based mostly on early CBS News reports and video interviews with families of the victims, relatives of the shooter, and other interested parties, CBS ’48 Hours’ investigative series tries to piece together the events that led to that tragic December day when Adam Larza killed 20 children and 6 staff members of ‘Sandy Hook Elementary…

  • Dunblane Remembered (2007)

    Dunblane Remembered (2007)

    On the 13th of March, 1996, Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym at Dunblane primary school and shot dead 16 children and their teacher… 11 other children and 3 teachers survived horrific injuries … in 4 minutes Dunblane had changed forever…

  • Killer Kids: School Killers (2011)

    Killer Kids: School Killers (2011)

    Interesting documentary takes a look at a number of international cases of ‘school killers’ and examines the motives responsible for these actions and whether society can learn anything from these cases to prevent others from happening in the future…

  • I Don’t Like Mondays (2006)

    I Don’t Like Mondays (2006)

    … when 16 year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire with the rifle that her father bought her for Christmas and killed 2 and injured 9 more at Cleveland Elementary School … the only explanation that she would give at the time was the cryptic, “I don’t like Mondays… this livens up the day”.

  • Massacre at Virginia Tech (2008)

    Massacre at Virginia Tech (2008)

    One year following the 2007 Virgina Tech massacre, this BBC documentary examines what the motive(s) might have been that led Seung-Hui Cho to massacre 32 people in cold blood in what is America’s worst mass murder on record …

  • The Final Report: Columbine Massacre (2007)

    The Final Report: Columbine Massacre (2007)

    The horrific events surrounding the Columbine High School shootings are investigated by ‘The Final Report’… A probing series of questions are posed: ‘How did Eric & Dylan get these guns’; ‘How did they build their bombs’; ‘What was their plan’; the documentary then tries to answer these questions…

  • The Columbine Cause (2007)

    The Columbine Cause (2007)

    … feature-length, no-budget video presentation by Evan Long that raises interesting questions surrounding the ‘official’ account of the Columbine High School shootings of April 20, 1999…