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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…
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The Hungerford Massacre (2007)
‘Crimes That Shook Britain’ is a brilliant documentary series that investigates some of the worst crimes in UK history… this episode deals with that tragic summer’s day in 1987 when Michael Robert Ryan armed with 2 semi-automatic rifles and a hand gun opened fire in the peaceful market town of Hungerford, England and before he…
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Anthony Hardy: The Camden Ripper (2012)
Anthony Hardy stalked the streets of London, England, looking for women to kill… his hero was ‘Jack the Ripper’ and like him, Hardy thought that he would never get caught… his trail of violence started in Australia but ended in horror at Hardy’s London Lab…
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Serial Killers On The Loose (2008)
A serial killer is someone who murders more than one person with a ‘grace’ or ‘cooling off’ period in between… usually after 3 murders, a person is deemed to be a ‘serial killer’… fascinating documentary about ‘serial killers’… featuring harrowing interviews with survivors of some serial killers who are still operating today…
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Death Diploma (1987)
Interesting documentary on some notorious US murderers of the 1970’s… Examines the cases of Charles Manson and his family, Kenneth Bianchi “The Hillside Strangler”, Henry Lee Lucas, and Otis Toole…
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Psychopath (2005)
Psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plough their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, empty wallets and sometimes lifeless corpses… this British documentary examines the understanding within the scientific community of psychopathy and the ways in which society deals with the psychopath and how it might…
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Hunting Magnotta (2012)
‘Hunting Magnotta’ tells the harrowing story of Luka Magnotta, born Eric Newman, a narcissistic young Canadian who was willing to do anything to get himself noticed – including murder…
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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…
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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’ ..
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Case Reopened: The Zodiac with Lawrence Block (1999)
Lawrence Block, Edgar Award-winning author and best-selling crime fiction writer, proposes a new and interesting twist to the case of the Zodiac…
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Mind Hunters (1998)
… examines the modern investigative field of ‘psychological profiling’… features the work of renown ‘criminal profilers’, Robert Ressler & Robert Hazelwood and how their ‘psychological profiles’ helped track the violent crime sprees of Richard Chase (The Vampire Killer), Mike DeBardeleben, (The Mall Passer) and John Wayne Gacy (The Killer Clown) …
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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…
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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….
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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;…
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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…
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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…
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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.”…
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The Gainesville Ripper (2011)
Roughly 20 years after Ted Bundy terrorized the students at Florida State University, five young people were killed in Gainesville, Fla., all students at the University of Florida or Santa Fe Community College… police feared they might have a copycat killer on the loose or even worse, a new form of evil to confront…
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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 …
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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…
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The Perfect Couple (2008)
They lived together….. they loved together…. they killed together… ‘Couples Who Kill’ is an Investigation Discovery documentary series focusing on famous killer duos… this episode features the horrific sex crimes and murders of Canadian married couple Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka, also known as, the ‘Ken and Barbie Killers’ …