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Category: Crime / Murder

  • Olympic Massacre – The True Story (2007)

    Olympic Massacre – The True Story (2007)

    One of the first televised acts of International terrorism, the ‘Munich Massacre’ changed the world forever… ‘Olympic Massacre – The True Story’ tells the tragic tale of that 1968 siege that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes…

  • The F.B.I. Files: The Unabomber (1999)

    The F.B.I. Files: The Unabomber (1999)

    Hosted by James Kallstrom, a former head of the FBI’s New York City office, ‘The F.B.I. Files’ takes the viewer into the thought process and methods the FBI uses to track down dangerous offenders… this episodes focuses on the notorious case of Theodore J. Kaczynski, aka, ‘The Unabomber’ ..

  • The Fight: A Dirty Business (2010)

    The Fight: A Dirty Business (2010)

    This BBC documentary tells the story of how throughout the history of boxing, the sports biggest fight has been against the world of ‘organized crime’… chronicles the story of boxer Jake ‘The Bull’ LaMotta, Sonny Liston and others…

  • The Kennedys and the Mob (1993)

    The Kennedys and the Mob (1993)

    Decades after his death, the controversy still rages: Who killed JFK?… In 1979, the ‘House Select Committee on Assassinations’ pointed a not-too-forceful finger in the direction of the mob as the most likely culprit… A&E’s ‘American Justice’ investigative crime series takes a closer look into those connections between the Kennedys and the mafia….

  • Ten Commandments of the Mafia (2004)

    Ten Commandments of the Mafia (2004)

    During a 2007 raid on Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the reputed new boss of the Sicilian Mafia in Italy, police made an astonishing discovery: a list of the Mafia’s most sacred laws, a cherished code of conduct for the Mob. In this Discovery documentary, former Mobsters speak out about the rules that govern their criminal world;…

  • Hunt for the Unabomber (2000)

    Hunt for the Unabomber (2000)

    Living on roughly $1,000 a year in a remote shack deep in the mountains of Montana, Theodore J. Kaczynski, aka: ‘The Unabomber’s’ elaborate bombing campaigns terrorized academics and confounded the FBI for nearly 20 years before he was finally caught after his brother informed authorities…

  • The Cumbrian Shootings (2010)

    The Cumbrian Shootings (2010)

    Starting in the early morning of June 2, 2010, a lone gunman, Derrick Bird, a Whitehaven cabbie, went on a shooting spree through the rural streets of Cumbria, England and by the time he ended it all by taking his own life, he had shot to death 12 people and injured 11 more… ranking it…

  • RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007)

    RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007)

    The title of this terrific Shane O’Sullivan documentary comes from a page of Sirhan Sirhan’s notebook found after the shooting, in which he wrote “R.F.K. must die – RFK must be killed Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated… before June 5 ’68.”…

  • Massacre! (1996)

    Massacre! (1996)

    ‘In the late 20th century, a new phenomenon occurred: attacks without warning by men intent on killing as many people as they could’… with that sombre opening, CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace proceeds to examine a series of horrific American and International mass murders or spree killings …

  • Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)

    Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)

    In 1931, two white women stepped off the train in Paint Rock, Alabama and proclaimed to have been raped by nine black teenagers on the train… the soon to be known ‘Scottsboro Boys’ were convicted of the crime and sentenced to death… one of the greatest miscarriages of American Justice that inspired the US Civil…

  • The Killing Of America (1982)

    The Killing Of America (1982)

    … exclusive video footage from race riots, kidnappings, armed robberies, domestic disputes, mass shootings, political assassinations, and the random, senseless murders of serial killers, “The Killing Of America” examines the growing gun violence in America and traces it back to its core – the JFK assassination.

  • Bowling For Columbine (2002)

    Bowling For Columbine (2002)

    Michael Moore’s 2002 Academy Award winner, “Bowling for Columbine’ examines the gun culture in America that contributed to the Columbine shootings …

  • The Staircase (2004)

    The Staircase (2004)

    ‘The Staircase’, also known as ‘Soupçons’, is a fascinating 2004 French TV mini series by Academy Award Winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade that chronicles the inner workings of a criminal defence team as they prepare and ultimately try the 2001 high-profile murder case of Novelist Michael Peterson…

  • Above Suspicion (2010)

    Above Suspicion (2010)

    The Fifth Estate investigates the horrific crimes of serial predator Colonel Russell Williams, the high-ranking Canadian military man that was convicted of a series of perverse sex crimes and the brutal murders of two women …

  • The Thin Blue Line (1988)

    The Thin Blue Line (1988)

    Brilliant Errol Morris film that re-energized the whole crime documentary genre… the haunting original musical score by Phillip Glass perfectly sets the tone to the highly artistic telling of the tragic tale of Randall Dale Adams, an innocent man that was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit… A year…

  • 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…

  • Death of the Don (2011)

    Death of the Don (2011)

    ‘The Fifth Estate’, CBC’s terrific investigative journalism series, takes on the Rizzutos – Montreal’s top mafia family by investigating the question: ‘Who’s killing the Rizzutos?’ … their investigation leads the viewer into the secret, criminal world of organized crime in Montreal.

  • David Frost Interviews Sirhan Sirhan (1989)

    David Frost Interviews Sirhan Sirhan (1989)

    Sirhan Sirhann, the infamous assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, sits down with Robert Frost for an in-depth interview … many subjects are discussed including Sirhan’s thoughts, feelings, politics and his personal recollections of that fateful night in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel…

  • The Second Gun: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1973)

    The Second Gun: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1973)

    The evi­dence of a sec­ond gun or second shooter has been gaining cred­i­bil­ity and momentum since this 1973 documentary attempted to scientifically prove that there were more than one shooter on that fateful night in 1968 that took the life of Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy…

  • The Untold Story Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing (2002)

    The Untold Story Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing (2002)

    The idea of the ‘home-grown’ terrorist first came to wide public attention on April 19, 1995 when a disillusioned Iraq War vet by the name of Timothy McVeigh set a plan in motion that would lead to the deaths of 168 and injure more than 680 more…