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  • My Lai Massacre (2010)

    My Lai Massacre (2010)

    The ‘My Lai Massacre’ refers to the worst atrocity in American military history – the 1968 Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam by United States Army soldiers of “Charlie” Company…

  • Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind (1999)

    Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind (1999)

    Former FBI agent John Douglas, the inventor of criminal profiling, leads the audience through a journey into the dark minds of some of 20th Century’s most notorious American killers… This episode deals with the cases of Wayne Williams, Robert Hansen, Larry Gene Bell, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

  • The Columbine Killers (2008)

    The Columbine Killers (2008)

    Aired for the first time on Crime & Investigation Network in South Africa, “The Columbine Killers” is a fascinating documentary that aims to investigate the reasons behind the tragic murders of 12 high school students and a teacher at Columbine High School in 1999, by teenage killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

  • Going Postal: 15 Shocking Acts of Violence (2008)

    Going Postal: 15 Shocking Acts of Violence (2008)

    E! takes a look at some of the most horrific acts of violence in American criminal history. Cases include: The Jonesboro Middle School Massacre, The New Life Shootings, The Atlanta Day Trader Murders, The Dunblane School Massacre, The San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre, The Texas Tower Shootings, and many more

  • Deranged Killers: Charles Whitman (2009)

    Deranged Killers: Charles Whitman (2009)

    When he was 12, Charles J. Whitman became the youngest eagle scout in America… when he was 25, after brutally stabbing to death his mother and wife, with rifle and ammunition in tow, he traveled to the top of the University of Texas Tower and proceeded to shoot dead 13 people and wounding 32 others…

  • Confessions of the DC Sniper (2010)

    Confessions of the DC Sniper (2010)

    …via prison phone, William Shatner interviews Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the killers known as the “DC Snipers”… Malvo claims that he and John Allen Muhammad had committed about 42 shootings and tried to recruit more people to carry out the 2002 killings that terrified the Washington, D.C. region…

  • The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump (2017)

    The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump (2017)

    During the 2016 US presidential campaign, Micheal Sandford, a 20 year old British citizen, travelled to the United States, attended a Donald Trump rally where he was subsequently arrested for trying to steal a police officer’s gun to shoot the presidential hopeful.

  • A Murder in the Park (2014)

    A Murder in the Park (2014)

    Anthony Porter was convicted of a double-murder in Chicago in 1982 and placed on death row… In 1999, within 48 hours of being executed, a Northwestern University Journalism class under the guidance of Professor David Protess of the Innocence Project, produced new evidence & a video confession from another man that exonerated Porter of the…

  • TOP 10 SEP 11 Documentaries

    TOP 10 SEP 11 Documentaries

    NOT a collection of 9/11 conspiracy videos, but rather, a wider perspective on some of the best documentaries made about September 11, 2001.

  • Montreal Massacre: Legacy of Pain (1999)

    Montreal Massacre: Legacy of Pain (1999)

    On December 6, 1989, Marc Lepine, a deranged anti-feminist, walked into a classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, ordered the women to one side of the room and began shooting. When the rampage was over, 14 young, female students lost their lives.

  • Terror at the Mall (2014)

    Terror at the Mall (2014)

    On Sept. 21, 2013, Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group from Somalia, attacked The Westgate Mall (a popular tourist Shopping Plaza in neighboring Kenya)… The attack lasted 49 hours, leaving 71 dead and hundreds wounded.

  • The Seven Five (2014)

    The Seven Five (2014)

    Brilliant documentary by Tiller Russell that examines the life & crimes of Michael Dowd, a NYPD police officer, who through the 1980’s & 90’s, came to be known as the ‘dirtiest cop in NYC history’…

  • Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop (2015)

    Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop (2015)

    Fascinating documentary about Gilberto Valle, a.k.a The Cannibal Cop, a NYPD police officer who in 2013 was arrested and charged for conspiring to kidnap, murder and cannibalize a series of women.

  • Injustice (2001)

    Injustice (2001)

    Terrific UK documentary by Ken Faro that explores the cases of four suspicious deaths of young black males in police custody in Great Britain in the 1990’s: Joy Gardner (28 July 1993), Shiji Lapite (16 December 1994), Brian Douglas (3 May 1995), and Ibrahima Sey (16 March 1996) … and how their families tried to…

  • Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (2015)

    Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (2015)

    From the assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan, to the school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook, or Virginia Tech, to countless other mass shootings that occur every year, there has always been two constants in the United States: American citizens calling for gun-control legislation and the NRA’s (National Rifle Association) political attempts to thwart…

  • The Killer at Thurston High (2000)

    The Killer at Thurston High (2000)

    On May 21, 1998. expelled student Kip Kinkel first murdered his parents before engaging in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon that left two students dead and 25 others wounded. He is serving a 111-year sentence without the possibility of parole at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem, Oregon.

  • Evolution of a Criminal (2014)

    Evolution of a Criminal (2014)

    Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of his family, friends…and victims. Terrific documentary by the first time director that traces the origins of his criminal past by revisiting the places, people, and circumstances that led him there.

  • Killer Kids: Sexual Killers (2012)

    Killer Kids: Sexual Killers (2012)

    In this episode of the Canadian documentary-crime series Killer Kids, the sexually-motivated murders of young children committed by troubled teenagers are featured …

  • Killer Kids: Baby Killers (2012)

    Killer Kids: Baby Killers (2012)

    The murder of a new-born is almost always committed by the mother… and it is usually a teenager who’s had to conceal her pregnancy from her family and deliver in secret that is the culprit of this horrific act… In this episode of Killer Kids, tragic cases of infanticide committed by young teenage mothers are…

  • Kids for Cash (2013)

    Kids for Cash (2013)

    Powerful Robert May documentary that tells the horrific ‘abuse of power’ story of Pennsylvania Judge’s Mark Ciavarella & Michael Conahan and how they manipulated their privileged positions to personally profit from placing juveniles in prison on mostly minor offences …