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Tag: Crime / Murder

  • Killer Legends (2014)

    Killer Legends (2014)

    Terrific documentary by Joshua Zeman, the writer and director of the unforgettable ‘Cropsey’, that follows up on the ‘urban legend’ phenomenon by delving into 4 popular American urban legends (The Hook Man, The Candy Poisoner, The Babysitter and The Killer Clown) to try understand the connection between the myth of the urban legend and the…

  • Elliot Rodger: The Virgin Killer (2014)

    Elliot Rodger: The Virgin Killer (2014)

    On May 23, 2014, near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Elliot Rodger, a 22 year-old, self-professed ‘virgin’, went on a killing spree that would take the lives of 6 students while wounding 13 more before eventually taking his own life..

  • Valentine Road (2013)

    Valentine Road (2013)

    In February 2008, 14-year-old Larry King walked up to fellow classmate Brandon McInerney and, as a dare, asked him to be his valentine… A few days later, on Valentine’s Day, McInerney walked up to King while he was sitting in the school computer lab and shot him twice in the back of the head …

  • Killing Spree: Columbine Massacre (2014)

    Killing Spree: Columbine Massacre (2014)

    In 1999, students Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold would embark on a massacre that would make American criminal history.. the terrific “Killing Spree’ documentary series takes a look back at the tragic events & the people that were directly impacted on that fateful day..

  • JFK: The Smoking Gun (2013)

    JFK: The Smoking Gun (2013)

    Fascinating documentary that follows veteran Australian police detective Colin McLaren on his 4 year forensic quest to discover what truly happened in Dallas on that fateful day 50 years ago….. the conclusions drawn by McLaren as to who actually fired the fatal head-shot will leave you in shock and disbelief..

  • Glen Taylor Helzer: Children of Thunder (2011)

    Glen Taylor Helzer: Children of Thunder (2011)

    Glen Taylor Helzer was a self-appointed prophet of God who formed the religious cult ‘Children of Thunder’ with two disciples (his brother Justin and fellow Mormon, Dawn Goodman) and would eventually lead them on 5 day murder spree that would take the lives of 5 innocent victims…

  • The Imposter (2012)

    The Imposter (2012)

    The Imposter is an incredible British documentary from the producer of the Academy Award winning ‘Man on Wire’ about the fascinating 1997 case of the French confidence man Frédéric Bourdin, who impersonated Nicholas Barclay, a Texas boy who had disappeared at the age of 13 in 1994….

  • Killing Spree: Horror at the Mall (2014)

    Killing Spree: Horror at the Mall (2014)

    Documentary about the 2011 assassination attempt that was made on US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. In just 17 seconds, this killing spree claimed six lives and left 13 other people seriously injured. This programme investigates the background and motivation of the killer, 22-year-old local resident, Jared Lee Loughner…

  • North Hollywood Shootout (2007)

    North Hollywood Shootout (2007)

    With helicopter news cameras beaming live aerial footage into the homes of millions of Californians, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, aka, the ‘High Incident Bandits’ (due to the amount of ammunition they brought to their various robberies), engaged the LA police force in one of the most violent gun battles in American history…

  • The Assassination of President Kennedy (2013)

    The Assassination of President Kennedy (2013)

    Terrific 2-part documentary by CNN that aims to answers the 50 year questions surrounding the JFK Assassination… Did Oswald really act alone?.. was the CIA somehow involved?.. or was the Mafia to blame?.. their conclusions dispel some popular myths but still leave some questions unanswered…

  • The Hunt for the Boston Bombers (2014)

    The Hunt for the Boston Bombers (2014)

    Brilliant documentary by National Geographic that tells the inside story of the five days of terror in Boston, told with unique access to the FBI, Boston Police Department, victims of the marathon bombing and those who were caught up in the manhunt…

  • Killer Profile: Gary Heidnik (2013)

    Killer Profile: Gary Heidnik (2013)

    Long before the crimes of Ariel Castro became front-page news, Gary Heidrik in 1986, kidnapped 6 women and kept them prisoner in his Philadelphia basement for over a year before finally being caught… Heidnik was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999.

  • The Brothers Who Bombed Boston (2013)

    The Brothers Who Bombed Boston (2013)

    BBC’s Panorama documentary series examines the events surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombing with added focus on the mysterious identities of the Tsarnaev brothers and what possible motivations may have drove them to perpetrate such a horrific act of violence…

  • The Act of Killing (2012)

    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…

  • Unforgiven: The Boys Who Killed James Bulger (2001)

    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…

  • The Cleveland Captives: What Really Happened? (2013)

    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…

  • The Perverted World of Marc Dutroux (2007)

    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…

  • The Moscow Theatre Siege (2004)

    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 …

  • The Central Park Five (2012)

    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…

  • The Assassination of John Lennon (2007)

    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?..