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My Lai Massacre (2010)
The ‘My Lai Massacre’ refers to the worst atrocity in American military history – the 1968 Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam by United States Army soldiers of “Charlie” Company…
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Best Dark Documentary Channels on YouTube (2021)
Crime / Murder Documentaries » Dark Documentary Channels … Top 10 Dark Documentary Lists: “Best Dark Documentary Channels on YouTube (2021)
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (2021)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (2021) Crime | Murder Documentaries: “The Man Who Knew Too Much (2021)” The Man Who Knew Too Much, is a terrific documentary by Michael Oswald that tells the story of Colin Wallace, an ex British Military Intelligence Officer, that was almost framed for murder. Stationed in Northern Ireland as…
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Deranged Killers: DC Sniper (2009)
In the autumn of 2002, a ruthless killer stalked the suburbs of Washington, DC… people were murdered at random and then the killer would vanish without a trace…
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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.
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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
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Deranged Killers: Charles Whitman (2009)
When he was 12, Charles J. Whitman became the youngest eagle scout in America… when he was 25, after brutally stabbing to death his mother and wife, with rifle and ammunition in tow, he traveled to the top of the University of Texas Tower and proceeded to shoot dead 13 people and wounding 32 others…
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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…
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Confessions of the DC Sniper (2010)
…via prison phone, William Shatner interviews Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the killers known as the “DC Snipers”… Malvo claims that he and John Allen Muhammad had committed about 42 shootings and tried to recruit more people to carry out the 2002 killings that terrified the Washington, D.C. region…
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The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump (2017)
During the 2016 US presidential campaign, Micheal Sandford, a 20 year old British citizen, travelled to the United States, attended a Donald Trump rally where he was subsequently arrested for trying to steal a police officer’s gun to shoot the presidential hopeful.
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A Murder in the Park (2014)
Anthony Porter was convicted of a double-murder in Chicago in 1982 and placed on death row… In 1999, within 48 hours of being executed, a Northwestern University Journalism class under the guidance of Professor David Protess of the Innocence Project, produced new evidence & a video confession from another man that exonerated Porter of the…
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TOP 10 SEP 11 Documentaries
NOT a collection of 9/11 conspiracy videos, but rather, a wider perspective on some of the best documentaries made about September 11, 2001.
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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.
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Terror at the Mall (2014)
On Sept. 21, 2013, Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group from Somalia, attacked The Westgate Mall (a popular tourist Shopping Plaza in neighboring Kenya)… The attack lasted 49 hours, leaving 71 dead and hundreds wounded.
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Terror on the Beach (2015)
Brilliant episode of the UK documentary series, Panorama, that details the horrific events of the day through the eyes of those that were there. Reporter Jane Corbin revisits that beach in Tunisia and talks to the brave Tunisian locals that tracked and filmed the killers movements and the fortunate survivors that recall how heir lives…
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The Seven Five (2014)
Brilliant documentary by Tiller Russell that examines the life & crimes of Michael Dowd, a NYPD police officer, who through the 1980’s & 90’s, came to be known as the ‘dirtiest cop in NYC history’…
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Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop (2015)
Fascinating documentary about Gilberto Valle, a.k.a The Cannibal Cop, a NYPD police officer who in 2013 was arrested and charged for conspiring to kidnap, murder and cannibalize a series of women.
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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…
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Injustice (2001)
Terrific UK documentary by Ken Faro that explores the cases of four suspicious deaths of young black males in police custody in Great Britain in the 1990’s: Joy Gardner (28 July 1993), Shiji Lapite (16 December 1994), Brian Douglas (3 May 1995), and Ibrahima Sey (16 March 1996) … and how their families tried to…
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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…
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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.
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Evolution of a Criminal (2014)
Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of his family, friends…and victims. Terrific documentary by the first time director that traces the origins of his criminal past by revisiting the places, people, and circumstances that led him there.
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Killer Kids: Sexual Killers (2012)
In this episode of the Canadian documentary-crime series Killer Kids, the sexually-motivated murders of young children committed by troubled teenagers are featured …
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Killer Kids: Baby Killers (2012)
The murder of a new-born is almost always committed by the mother… and it is usually a teenager who’s had to conceal her pregnancy from her family and deliver in secret that is the culprit of this horrific act… In this episode of Killer Kids, tragic cases of infanticide committed by young teenage mothers are…
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Kids for Cash (2013)
Powerful Robert May documentary that tells the horrific ‘abuse of power’ story of Pennsylvania Judge’s Mark Ciavarella & Michael Conahan and how they manipulated their privileged positions to personally profit from placing juveniles in prison on mostly minor offences …
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Killer Legends (2014)
Terrific documentary by Joshua Zeman, the writer and director of the unforgettable ‘Cropsey’, that follows up on the ‘urban legend’ phenomenon by delving into 4 popular American urban legends (The Hook Man, The Candy Poisoner, The Babysitter and The Killer Clown) to try understand the connection between the myth of the urban legend and the…
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Elliot Rodger: The Virgin Killer (2014)
On May 23, 2014, near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Elliot Rodger, a 22 year-old, self-professed ‘virgin’, went on a killing spree that would take the lives of 6 students while wounding 13 more before eventually taking his own life..
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Valentine Road (2013)
In February 2008, 14-year-old Larry King walked up to fellow classmate Brandon McInerney and, as a dare, asked him to be his valentine… A few days later, on Valentine’s Day, McInerney walked up to King while he was sitting in the school computer lab and shot him twice in the back of the head …
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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..
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JFK: The Smoking Gun (2013)
Fascinating documentary that follows veteran Australian police detective Colin McLaren on his 4 year forensic quest to discover what truly happened in Dallas on that fateful day 50 years ago….. the conclusions drawn by McLaren as to who actually fired the fatal head-shot will leave you in shock and disbelief..
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Glen Taylor Helzer: Children of Thunder (2011)
Glen Taylor Helzer was a self-appointed prophet of God who formed the religious cult ‘Children of Thunder’ with two disciples (his brother Justin and fellow Mormon, Dawn Goodman) and would eventually lead them on 5 day murder spree that would take the lives of 5 innocent victims…
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The Imposter (2012)
The Imposter is an incredible British documentary from the producer of the Academy Award winning ‘Man on Wire’ about the fascinating 1997 case of the French confidence man Frédéric Bourdin, who impersonated Nicholas Barclay, a Texas boy who had disappeared at the age of 13 in 1994….
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Killing Spree: Horror at the Mall (2014)
Documentary about the 2011 assassination attempt that was made on US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. In just 17 seconds, this killing spree claimed six lives and left 13 other people seriously injured. This programme investigates the background and motivation of the killer, 22-year-old local resident, Jared Lee Loughner…
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North Hollywood Shootout (2007)
With helicopter news cameras beaming live aerial footage into the homes of millions of Californians, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, aka, the ‘High Incident Bandits’ (due to the amount of ammunition they brought to their various robberies), engaged the LA police force in one of the most violent gun battles in American history…
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The Assassination of President Kennedy (2013)
Terrific 2-part documentary by CNN that aims to answers the 50 year questions surrounding the JFK Assassination… Did Oswald really act alone?.. was the CIA somehow involved?.. or was the Mafia to blame?.. their conclusions dispel some popular myths but still leave some questions unanswered…
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The Hunt for the Boston Bombers (2014)
Brilliant documentary by National Geographic that tells the inside story of the five days of terror in Boston, told with unique access to the FBI, Boston Police Department, victims of the marathon bombing and those who were caught up in the manhunt…
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Killer Profile: Gary Heidnik (2013)
Long before the crimes of Ariel Castro became front-page news, Gary Heidrik in 1986, kidnapped 6 women and kept them prisoner in his Philadelphia basement for over a year before finally being caught… Heidnik was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999.
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The Brothers Who Bombed Boston (2013)
BBC’s Panorama documentary series examines the events surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombing with added focus on the mysterious identities of the Tsarnaev brothers and what possible motivations may have drove them to perpetrate such a horrific act of violence…
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The Act of Killing (2012)
Powerful documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer that challenges former Indonesian death squad leaders to re-enact their real-life mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and even lavish musical numbers…
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Unforgiven: The Boys Who Killed James Bulger (2001)
On February 12 1993, James Bulger, a 2-yr-old from Kirby, England, vanished from a local mall. Two days later his mutilated body was found on the side of the railway tracks. The initial shock would quickly turn to unfathomable disbelief when the perpetrators of the crime turned out to be 2 10-yr-old boys (Robert Thompson…