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Category: Crime / Murder

  • Biography: Theodore J. Kaczynski: The Unabomber (2007)

    Biography: Theodore J. Kaczynski: The Unabomber (2007)

    For almost 20 years, the ‘Unabomber’ conducted a campaign of terror across America.. his goal was to rid society of technology and return to a more primitive state… his targets were those behind the rise of modern industry… scientists, corporate executives – anyone who had an eye toward the future…

  • Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind (2011)

    Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind (2011)

    With never-before-seen footage and eye-witness accounts, ‘Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind’ takes the viewer back to that fateful day in July, 2011 when a lone assassin turned the peaceful nation of Norway into one large mass- murder scene and seeks to find the answers as to ‘how’ & ‘why’ this horrific event transpired…

  • Manson Family – Born To Kill? (2012)

    Manson Family – Born To Kill? (2012)

    Charles Manson and his so-called ‘family’ would become the most infamous killers of the 20th century, committing a series of brutal and seemingly senseless crimes that would spell the end of the 60’s ‘hippie dream’… but what made Manson the man he was?.. How did so many young people fall under his spell?… and were…

  • The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012)

    The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012)

    Youtuber and documentary filmmaker Mark Howitt, weaves a series of news reports, police audio recordings, eye-witness testimonies and a few personal theories to tell a slightly different version than the official account surrounding the Aurora movie theater massacre …

  • 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”.

  • The Batman Shootings (2012)

    The Batman Shootings (2012)

    Amal Fashanu of BBC3 travels to Aurora, Colorado to meet with survivors of the gun massacre at the ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ film screening that took 12 lives and injured 58 more and to try to comprehend the ‘gun-culture’ that exists in America …

  • Madness in the Fast Lane (2010)

    Madness in the Fast Lane (2010)

    “Madness in the Fast Lane” tells the incredibly strange story of two Swedish sisters (Ursula and Sabina Eriksson) who were filmed live on British CCTV trying to commit suicide on a busy highway… what followed next was even more odd and vastly more terrifying….

  • 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…

  • Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

    Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

    Nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for ‘best documentary’, Andrew Jarecki’s “Capturing the Friedmans” will leave you on the edge of their seat as little by little, horrific pieces of information are revealed and you’re left to try to figure out just who’s telling the truth in this twisted tale…

  • Biography: Charles Manson (1987)

    Biography: Charles Manson (1987)

    Charles Manson speaks of his life and crimes; cocky, sneering, and unrepentent to the end. Profiled is his troubled childhood, his early prison days, his “Haight Ashbury” period, and the murders .. Highlights include Manson’s confrontations with the parole board; even he realizes that that’s a lost cause. A good show with a lot of…

  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

    “Dear Zachary…” is the heart-wrenching, tragic story of Andrew Bagby, his son Zachary and Kathleen and David, (the grandparents) that must try to pick up the harrowing pieces left behind by the cold hands of loose justice…

  • Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)

    Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)

    “Just, Melvin: Just Evil ” tells the unnerving tale of the multi-generational abuse perpetuated upon the family members of Melvin Just ..

  • The Craigslist Killer’s Police Interview (2009)

    The Craigslist Killer’s Police Interview (2009)

    …fascinating first encounter audio recording between the Boston police department homicide detectives and suspected murderer Philip Markoff… Police later determined that Markoff still had the blood of his victim — Julissa Brisman, who advertised erotic massage services on Craigslist — on his shoes during the interview.

  • 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…

  • Norway’s Massacre (2012)

    Norway’s Massacre (2012)

    In July 2011 Norway suffered the worst attack by a terrorist acting alone in the history of the world. Yet Anders Breivik was not an Al-Qaeda sympathiser: he was an ethnic Norwegian from the affluent side of Oslo…

  • Martin Bryant: A Question of Guilt (2008)

    Martin Bryant: A Question of Guilt (2008)

    Martin Bryant is an Australian spree killer who pled guilty to murdering 35 people and injuring 21 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, in 1996… documentary questions whether Bryant was really guilty of this crime or has a dreadful miscarriage of justice and cover-up taken place?

  • Fourteen Days in May (1988)

    Fourteen Days in May (1988)

    Filmed during the last 14 days of Edward Earl Johnson’s stay on Mississippi’s death row, “Fourteen Days in May” takes the viewer into the tragically desperate world of a man condemned to die while steadfastly confessing his innocence …