Lasermannen

Armed with a laser sight rifle he spread fear among Stockholm's immigrant communities in the early 1990's. In the media he was named Lasermannen.

2005-12-11 | sv

Shenandoah

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town’s white, star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley’s most personal work, SHENANDOAH creates a deeply felt portrait of a working class community, and the American Dream on trial.

2012-10-16 | en

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death in a trial marked by controversial prosecutorial and defense tactics and charges of racism.

1998-03-01 | en

Killed by Our Daughter: The McCullough Murders

Virginia McCullough murdered her parents and lived with their bodies for four years.

2024-11-12 | en

Unfit: Ward vs. Ward

Thoughtful documentary exploring the shocking court decision to grant custody to a child’s father, a convicted murderer, rather than her lesbian mother.

2012-04-30 | en

Benji

Documentary about Ben Wilson, a good-natured and beloved teenage basketball phenom from Chicago's South Side whose life was tragically cut short by violence in November 1984.

2012-10-23 | en

Unthinkable: The Susan Smith Story

Hear from the prosecutors who handled Susan Smith's case and why authorities doubted her story from the beginning. The boys' father, David Smith, talks about why he believes 30 years in prison isn't long enough for Susan and what he's prepared to tell a SC Board of Pardons and Paroles to keep her behind bars.

2024-11-20 | en

Swipe, Match, Murder: The Disappearance of Grace Millane

The story of the murder of British backpacker Grace Millane and how her killer was caught.

2023-10-11 | en

An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story

In 1986 Michael Morton’s wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, a team of dedicated attorneys spends years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene. Their discoveries ultimately reveal that the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man’s loss of freedom.

2013-03-11 | en

The Body in the Bag: The Murder of Melanie Hall

On the night of June 8, 1996, 25-year-old Melanie Hall was enjoying an evening out with her boyfriend in a nightclub. Thirteen years later, her remains were discovered on a slip road off the M5. In October 2019 police revealed they had new evidence, when they obtained a partial DNA profile from the rope wrapped around the bag containing Melanie's remains. Yet still, her killer remains at large. This documentary re-examines the case and explores the theories surrounding her death.

2023-09-28 | en

No Mercy, No Remorse

No Mercy, No Remorse takes viewers back to the winter of 1993, with a journey into the deeply disturbing world of Paul Charles Denyer, the then 21-year old who is currently serving three life sentences for the Frankston murders.

2022-06-23 | en

The Mám Trasna Murders

The story of barbaric murders committed in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the border between counties Galway and Mayo in 1882 and the subsequent trial in Dublin. The trial led to the unjust hanging or life imprisonment of innocent people based on the testimonies of false witnesses and the dishonesty of the British authorities and the gentry.

2018-04-04 | ga

Les 16 de Basse-Pointe

2009-04-22 | fr

Interview With A Murderer

A famed criminologist reexamines the evidence in this powerful interview with murderer Bert Spencer, suspected in the killing a paperboy in 1978.

2016-06-12 | en

Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror

This two-hour History Channel special examines controversial new theories about the man who ruled the world's mightiest Empire with sadistic brutality. His reign of terror lasted just 1,400 days. Yet even today everyone knows his name. Most have said he was crazy. But was he? This is the story few know behind one of the most infamous figures of the Ancient World--Caligula.

2012-11-22 | en

Daughters

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

2024-08-09 | en

Trial by Fury: The People v. Scott Peterson

A heinous crime unleashes a media firestorm trial that lands Scott Peterson on death row for the murder of his wife and unborn child. Ten years later it is clear that not everything in this case is what it seems, raising the question: was justice truly served? Using evidence and new information that was never presented to Peterson’s jury at the time, This film re-examines the facts of the case and the affect the intense media attention had on justice.

2016-04-02 | en

Dian Fossey: Ihr Leben für die Gorillas

2025-12-13 | de

Old Growth Murder

A feature-length documentary exploring the unsolved murder of French bicyclist Alain Malessard who was found dead in an Oregon Coast campground on Thanksgiving 1987.

2022-06-28 | en

State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith

The harrowing story of a woman trying to use Alabama's Stand Your Ground law after killing a man she says brutally attacked her.

2022-11-10 | en