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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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My Brother the Serial Killer (2012)
Brilliant documentary by David Monaghan chronicling the life and crimes of American serial killer Glen Rogers, a.k.a, the ‘Casanova Killer’ as told by the man who knew him best – his childhood friend, partner-in-crime and older brother Carl… documentary gained wide media attention for one of the claims made by the Rogers family that their…
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Jerome Brudos: The Lust Killer (2008)
Fascinating documentary that tells the bizarre and horrific life & crimes of American serial killer Jerry Brudos, a.k.a “The Lust Killer” or “Shoe Fetish Killer” who between 1968 and 1969, bludgeoned and strangled four young women to death… Brudos, the cross-dressing, necrohpiliac serial killer would eventually confess to the grizzly murders and spend the rest…
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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…
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Great Crimes and Trials: Ted Bundy (1992)
“Great Crimes and Trials” is an early 1990’s British documentary series narrated by famed actor Robert Powell that examines the crimes and subsequent trials of famous crimes or criminals.. This 1992 episode details the horrific crimes and unusual trial of American serial killer Ted Bundy…
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Serial Killer on Camera (2008)
On January 1, 1993, Colin Ireland made a New Years resolution to become a serial killer… 3 months later he had brutally murdered 5 men… Brilliant episode of the UK documentary crime series ‘Real Crime’ that investigates this horrific case through the words of the killer himself…
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The Railroad Killer (2010)
Fascinating episode of CBS’s ’48 Hours Mystery: Live to Tell’ that tells the horrific tale of Holly Dunn, one of the few survivors of Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, an itinerant Mexican serial killer responsible for as many as 15 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s..
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The Cleveland Captives: What Really Happened? (2013)
Fascinating documentary that gets inside the Cleveland kidnapping case to reveal vital information about the captives, the kidnapper, the families, the neighbourhood and the the neighbours involved that sheds light on this most troubling and bizarre story…
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The Perverted World of Marc Dutroux (2007)
Marc Dutroux, a.k.a. ‘The Monster of Belgium’ is a Belgian serial killer, kidnapper and child molester whose high-profile crimes led to one of the most controversial and highly anticipated court cases in Belgian criminal history…
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Deadly Cults (2013)
According to government statistics there are approximately 5,000 cults operating in America today with around 200,000 ‘willing’ members… The History Channel’s ‘America’s Book of Secrets’ examines some of the most notorious cult cases including: The Branch Davidians; Heaven’s Gate; The People’s Temple; and Rajneeshpuram..
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Monster in Spokane (2010)
Terrific episode of ‘Usual Suspects’ that examines the crimes of Robert Lee Yates, an American serial killer who in the late 1990’s terrorised residents of Spokane, Washington with a grizzly run of murders of female prostitutes working the Skid Row section of town…
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Lair of a Sadist (2009)
Terrific episode of Investigation Discovery’s ‘I Escaped Death’ documentary series that tells the harrowing 1st person account of Cynthia Vigil – one of the few survivors of sadistic serial rapist and suspected serial killer David Parker Ray and his ‘ToyBox’ chamber of horrors…
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Carl Panzram – The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge (2011)
Carl Panzram’s self-professed motto was: “Rob them all… Rape them all… Kill them all”… and he certainly tried… Before he was finally captured, Panzram had committed 22 murders and 1000’s of robberies and rapes..
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Serial Killers (2013)
Since the 1970’s the United States has produced over 1,000 serial killers… The documentary series, ‘America’s Book of Secrets’ takes a closer look at this mostly-American phenomenon… the cases of: Christpher Dorner, Anthony Sowell, the Long Island Serial Killer, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Rader, Donald Harvey, John Wayne Gacy, and Lonnie David Franklin Jr…
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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…
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The Moscow Theatre Siege (2004)
In October 2002, Chechen terrorists took a thousand people hostage in a Moscow theatre and threatened to kill them..Three days later Russian special forces stormed the theatre using a secret gas to knock everybody out… 129 hostages died …
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Killer in a Small Town: The Ipswich Murders (2009)
Brilliant UK documentary that examines the lives of five ordinary women from an ordinary English town whose lives descended into drugs and prostitution, making them easy prey to Steve Wright, a.k.a. “The Suffolk Strangler”, one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers…
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The Weepy-Voiced Killer (2004)
Fascinating episode of A&E’s ‘Cold Case Files’ that examines the bizarre story of Paul Michael Stephani, an American serial killer that would call the police after his crimes and rant in a strange, over-emotional, crying tone that the media would later dub as ‘The Weepy-Voiced Killer’ …
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Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield (2004)
Terrific documentary-short by Michelle Palmer, that tells the horrific story of 1950’s American serial killer, Ed Gein – the man whose bizarre life and sadistic crimes would shock the nation and inspire the film characters Norman Bates in “Psycho” and Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs”…
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Hunting The Zodiac (2007)
‘Hunting The Zodiac ‘ is a fascinating look at the team of ‘armchair investigators’ that have taken it upon themselves to continue investigating the 40 year old cold-case murders attributed to the Zodiak Killer …
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The Central Park Five (2012)
Brilliantly disturbing Ken Burns documentary that examines the notorious 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman jogger in Central Park… After spending between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime…
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Killing Spree (2004)
Terrific episode of ‘Forensic Factor’ that examines the 5-day horrific murderous spree of Danny Rolling, a.k.a. “The Gainesville Ripper” and how forensic science helped track down and eventually prosecute this violent offender…
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Finding Jack the Ripper (2011)
… follows retired UK detective Trevor Marriott and a team of forensic experts as they examine the possibility that the notorious London slasher, Jack the Ripper, may also have been the world’s first international serial killer who may be responsible for murder’s throughout Europe and the US.
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Dance with a Serial Killer (2008)
On the afternoon of Sunday, May 14, 1989, a woman was stabbed to death on the beaches of Brittany, France… a local police officer, Jean-Francois Abgrall, conducted the investigation and his inquiries into the murder revealed that the body on the beach was just one in a series of murders that led back to the…
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Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer (2005)
Truly fascinating documentary examining the horrific crimes and eventual capture of Gary Ridgway, a.k.a “The Green River Killer” as told by Dave Reichert, the lead Seattle detective that was there throughout the 20 year nightmare…
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The Poughkeepsie Killer (2012)
Kendall Francois, a.k.a “The Poughkeepsie Killer” is an American serial killer who is currently serving life in prison for killing eight women and burying/hiding their remains in and around his N.Y home….
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America’s First Serial Killer (2004)
Torture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors… “H.H Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer” is a terrific documentary by John Borowski that traces Holmes’ entire life as a criminal mastermind….
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The Yorkshire Ripper (2009)
… a regular user of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe would eventually be convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others…. The brilliant British documentary series “Crimes that Shook the World” examines the crimes of the man that would come to be known as “The Yorkshire Ripper”…
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JFK: The Lost Bullet (2011)
Terrific documentary by ‘National Geographic’ that follows a team of experts who attempt to find the so-called ‘lost bullet’ fired at John F Kennedy, hoping to finally solve the 50+ year mystery of his assassination….
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The Hunt for the Red Ripper (1994)
Fascinating documentary by A&E’s ‘Investigative Reports’ that goes behind-the-scenes at the trial of Andrei Chikatilo, a.k.a ‘The Butcher of Rostov’, ‘The Red Ripper’, and ‘The Rostov Ripper’ to examine the murderous crime-spree of Russia’s worst serial killer…
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The Casanova Killer (2001)
Terrific episode of ‘The FBI Files’ that examines the case of American serial killer, Glen Edward Rogers, also known as “The Cross Country Killer” or “The Casanova Killer,” who was convicted of a series of murders and arsons throughout the United States that began in 1995…
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Dr. Death (2008)
Dr Harold Fredrick Shipman, a.k.a ‘Dr. Death’, is a British General Practitioner, who was convicted in 2000 of murdering 215 of his patients by lethal injection of the drug diamorphine, over a 25 year period…
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Jonestown Cult Suicides (2007)
Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and testimony from survivors – including cult-leader Jim Jones’s own son Stephan – the terrific documentary series ‘The True Story’ tells the horrific story of what really happened on that fateful day of November 18th 1978, when over 900 members of the religious cult The People’s Temple apparently committed mass-suicide….
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Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death (1995)
In the annals of crime, perhaps no name evokes terror more than that Jack the Ripper… A&E Biography goes to England to investigate the murder of five women, which took place in 1888 and have gripped the collective psyche ever since….
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Doomsday Cults (2012)
‘Hidden in America’ is a fascinating documentary series that looks inside some of the most notorious religious sects in history in an effort to understand the cult phenomenon… this episode deals with the notorious ‘doomsday cults’: Heaven’s Gate, The People’s Temple and The Church Universal and Triumphant…
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The Jim Garrison Tapes (1992)
Fascinating documentary detailing former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s effort to prove a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
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Beast of the Bastille (2008)
‘Beast of the Bastille’ is a British documentary about the notorious French serial killer Guy Georges Rampignon, who raped, tortured and murdered at least seven women from 1991 to 1997 in an east Parisian neighbourhood, known as Bastille Quarter…
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The Assassination of John Lennon (2007)
…On December 8, 1980, outside the Dakota Building, the 40 year-old Beatle was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a young stalker who alleged that he was Lennon’s “double”… What were the psychological factors which drove Chapman to murder?..
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Oscar Pistorius: What Really Happened? (2013)
… BBC3 documentary that investigates what may have happened in the apartment of South African Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius that resulted in the tragic death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day….
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Natural Porn Killer (2006)
… Fascinating documentary by Sascha Olofson that examines the startling death-row interview claims of American serial killer Ted Bundy that ‘violent pornography’ were a major factor in his horrible crimes…