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  • After Newtown: The Path to Violence (2013)

    After Newtown: The Path to Violence (2013)

    ‘After Newtown’ is an interesting PBS documentary series that examines American gun culture, the frightening rise of school shootings, mental illness and the different approaches used by local communities to detect and combat future violent attacks …

  • The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1997)

    The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1997)

    Narrated by Paul Sorvino, ‘The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre’ documents in great detail one of the most infamous days in American history when on Valentine’s day in 1929, the streets of Chicago ran with blood as the gangs of Al Capone and Bugs Moran battled to the death…

  • The Real Amityville Horror (2005)

    The Real Amityville Horror (2005)

    …Ronald DeFeo, Jr. is an American mass murderer that was tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters… The case is notable for being the real life inspiration behind the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror…..

  • Stalker (2007)

    Stalker (2007)

    Jealous lovers, obsessed acquaintances, delusional admirers.. ‘Killer stalkers’ hunt the object of their affection like a predator hunting it’s prey… This episode of ‘Most Evil’ examines the cases of notorious stalkers: Richard Farley, Robert John Bardo, Mark David Chapman, and Gerald Atkins…

  • The Long Island Railroad Massacre (2012)

    The Long Island Railroad Massacre (2012)

    On December 7, 1993, a Jamaican man (Colin Ferguson) opened fire on a Long Island commuter train killing 6 and injuring 19 more in an incident coined the “Long Island Railroad Massacre”… Investigation Discovery’s ‘Killer Trials: Judgement Day’ crime series examines the case of Colin Ferguson and the strange court proceedings that followed …

  • Terror in Tokyo (2004)

    Terror in Tokyo (2004)

    …on March 20, 1995, the most serious violent attack in Japan since the end of World War II occurred… The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of the religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo that took the lives of 13 and injured thousands…

  • Massacre at Columbine High (2004)

    Massacre at Columbine High (2004)

    … minute-by-minute account of the Columbine High School massacre that horrified the world… featuring chilling video footage of Klebold and Harris, ‘Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High’ offers a real insight into the twisted minds that devised a devastating plan too horrific to believe and then carried it out with cruel and fanatic precision….

  • Mumbai Massacre (2009)

    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…

  • The Hungerford Massacre (2007)

    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…

  • Olympic Massacre – The True Story (2007)

    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…

  • The Cumbrian Shootings (2010)

    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…

  • Massacre! (1996)

    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 …

  • Bowling For Columbine (2002)

    Bowling For Columbine (2002)

    Michael Moore’s 2002 Academy Award winner, “Bowling for Columbine’ examines the gun culture in America that contributed to the Columbine shootings …

  • Newtown (2012)

    Newtown (2012)

    Based mostly on early CBS News reports and video interviews with families of the victims, relatives of the shooter, and other interested parties, CBS ’48 Hours’ investigative series tries to piece together the events that led to that tragic December day when Adam Larza killed 20 children and 6 staff members of ‘Sandy Hook Elementary…

  • Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind (2011)

    Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind (2011)

    With never-before-seen footage and eye-witness accounts, ‘Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind’ takes the viewer back to that fateful day in July, 2011 when a lone assassin turned the peaceful nation of Norway into one large mass- murder scene and seeks to find the answers as to ‘how’ & ‘why’ this horrific event transpired…

  • The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012)

    The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012)

    Youtuber and documentary filmmaker Mark Howitt, weaves a series of news reports, police audio recordings, eye-witness testimonies and a few personal theories to tell a slightly different version than the official account surrounding the Aurora movie theater massacre …

  • Dunblane Remembered (2007)

    Dunblane Remembered (2007)

    On the 13th of March, 1996, Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym at Dunblane primary school and shot dead 16 children and their teacher… 11 other children and 3 teachers survived horrific injuries … in 4 minutes Dunblane had changed forever…

  • Killer Kids: School Killers (2011)

    Killer Kids: School Killers (2011)

    Interesting documentary takes a look at a number of international cases of ‘school killers’ and examines the motives responsible for these actions and whether society can learn anything from these cases to prevent others from happening in the future…

  • I Don’t Like Mondays (2006)

    I Don’t Like Mondays (2006)

    … when 16 year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire with the rifle that her father bought her for Christmas and killed 2 and injured 9 more at Cleveland Elementary School … the only explanation that she would give at the time was the cryptic, “I don’t like Mondays… this livens up the day”.

  • The Batman Shootings (2012)

    The Batman Shootings (2012)

    Amal Fashanu of BBC3 travels to Aurora, Colorado to meet with survivors of the gun massacre at the ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ film screening that took 12 lives and injured 58 more and to try to comprehend the ‘gun-culture’ that exists in America …