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Brother’s Keeper (1992)
Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, “Brother’s Keeper” is a brilliant documentary that tells the story of an alleged murder in Munnsville, New York … that divided the town when one of the local ‘Ward’ brothers lay dead and another was accused of the crime…
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Murder Hotel (2005)
Fascinating documentary on America’s first known serial killer, the psychotic Illinois doctor, Herman Webster Mudgett, aka, H.H Holmes who built his own ‘murder hotel’, specifically with murder in mind, complete with secret packages, sliding chutes a cellar morgue …. While Holmes would confess to 27 murders, of which four were confirmed, the actual body count…
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Biggie & Tupac (2002)
British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield takes a closer look at the murders of Hip Hop icons, The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur… many questions are raised and fingers are pointed directly at the LA Police department’s internal corruption & Hip Hop producer, Suge Knight, head of Death Row Records….
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
This final version chronicles the last years in prison and eventual release of the three men accused of brutally murdering three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. The men were released after entering an Alford plea on August 19, 2011, allowing them to assert their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to…
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West Memphis Three (2011)
In 1993, the bodies of three young boys were discovered in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal at Robin Hood Hills near West Memphis, Arkansas – three young teenagers: Damien Echols , Jessie Misskelley, Jr. and Jason Baldwin were charged and quickly convicted of the crimes based on the coerced confession…
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Fred And Rose: The West Murders (2001)
After the severed corpse of his missing teenage daughter Heather was discovered buried in the garden of his Gloucester home, Fred West began to slowly confess to a series of horrendous murders… police would eventually dig up the bodies of nine young women from the home of builder Fred West and his partner-in-crime prostitute wife…
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Young Kids, Hard Time (2011)
The YIA (Youth Incarcerated As Adults) cellblock inWabash, Indiana is home to 53 kids who are sentenced as adults and are rarely permitted to leave the unit due to the dangers posed by the adult prisoners just outside their door… But once a youth offender turns 18, they begin the immediate transition into the general…
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Inside the Mafia: The Godfathers (2005)
Part of National Geographic’s ‘Inside The Mafia’ series, ‘The Godfathers’ chronicles the lives of two mafia godfathers: John Gotti, aka “dapper Don”, the streetwise, publicity-loving head of the Gambino family in New York and Toto Riina, the psychopathic head of the Sicilian Mafia…
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BTK Confessions (2004)
Sometimes in the American legal system as part of a ‘plea deal’, the prosecutor or judge might demand that the convicted felon confess all his crimes in front of the judge and jury … on June 27, 2004, Dennis Rader, aka, ‘The BTK Killer’ rose in front of a Wichita court and with a chilling…
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I Know What I Saw (2009)
Fascinating documentary by James Fox that goes straight to the heart of the UFO conspiracy – the witnesses … Fox assembles some of the most credible UFO witnesses that he can find and takes them to testify at The National Press Club in 2007… along the way some of the most fascinating UFO incidents are…
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Killer in the County (1999)
A&E’s ‘Cold Case Files’ looks back at the story of Faryion E. Wardrip, an American serial killer who terrorized the small town of Wichita Falls, Texas, in the 1980’s… when all the counting was done, Wardrip would claim 5 young women as his victims …
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The Anthrax Files (2011)
Just after 9/11, as the US Congress was debating giving President Bush unprecedented powers to combat terrorism, envelopes carrying the deadly Anthrax bacteria were delivered to U.S. Senate offices… Five people were killed, many more infected and the nation was terrorized….
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Mumbai Massacre (2009)
Most terrorist attacks happen in seconds… the attacks on Mumbai were different: a deadly game of cat and mouse that lasted for days… “Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre” documents the inside story of one of modern history’s worst terrorist attacks told by the people that found a way to survive…
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The Confession (2010)
How do you get a suspected serial killer to confess to two murders and lead the police to the location of one of the still missing women even before all the evidence is in?… In a stunning follow-up to their previous ‘Above Suspicion’ documentary on the crimes of Col. Russel Williams, Bob McKeown of the…
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The Book that Can’t Be Read (2011)
It’s the world’s most mysterious book, written by an unknown author in an unknown language… The ‘Voynich Manuscrip’ is a roughly 200 page manuscript with strange symbols, beautiful illustrations and secret text that has remained a mystery for decades…
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Anatomy of a Prison Murder (2002)
A black inmate was held down and stabbed 67 times by 2 white inmates at Utah State Prison in 1994 – the incident was captured on prison surveillance cameras… “Anatomy of a Prison Murder” is an incredible HBO documentary that examines that details of that incident through the eyes of the prosecutor, the prison officials,…
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The Real Bonnie and Clyde (2009)
Hollywood portrayed them as the most ‘glamorous’ outlaws in American history … their chaotic crime-spree lasted 2 years and claimed 14 lives… but who were ‘Bonnie & Clyde’?… What led them to a life of crime?.. and how did they avoid capture for so long?…
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Cult Leaders (2007)
What characteristics are necessary in a person to make them a perfect candidate to become a cult leader?… and of all the cult leaders that have existed which one was the ‘most evil?’… interesting documentary that examines notorious cult leaders: Japanese Shoko Asahara, Mexican Aldolfo De Jesus Contanzo, American Charles Manson and Rev. Jim Jones…
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Rush to Judgment (1967)
Released roughly 4 years after the JFK assassination, Mark Lane’s ‘Rush to Judgement’ was the first documentary that directly challenged and cast serious doubts about the legitimacy and conclusions drawn by the ‘Warren Commission Report’ and if their ‘lone gunman’ theory was a truly viable consensus of evidence or just a ‘rush to judgment’ …
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Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (1993)
The consistently brilliant PBS documentary series ‘Frontline’ delivers one of the most thorough investigations into the enigmatic life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the so-called ‘lone gunman’ that took the life of US President John F. Kennedy on that fateful day at Dealy Plaza nearly 50 years ago…