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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
Author
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Many famous cases have been reexamined in recent years using the great advances made in forensic science. Cold cases have been reopened. Supposedly solved crimes have been analyzed anew. Explore how cutting-edge investigative techniques are being applied to help unravel criminal enigmas all over the world.
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Dope Years: The Story of Latasha Harlins is a 19 minute documentary that explores and retells the life of Latasha and how her death is directly connected to the Los Angeles climate of the 1990s. Through reimagined scenes from Latasha’s life, the audience gains insight into who she was as a person and the impact she made on her community. The Dope Years explores perspectives of those who were children at the time and identifies the issues that...
8) Blue Caprice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Isaiah Washington stars in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about the notorious DC sniper attacks.
9) Capote
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers an Oscar® -winning performance (2006, Best Actor) as Truman Capote, who embarks upon a journey to write the book of a lifetime, "In Cold Blood," based upon the murder of a family in Kansas. Developing a unique relationship with one of the imprisoned murderers (Clifton Collins Jr.), even he wonders if he can write the great book he believes destiny has handed him.
10) The Legal Death
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. The whole world stood up, the people crowded into the town squares, not just the lives of two men were at stake but also the beliefs which they represented. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Shane was the hitman who attacked Nancy Kerrigan. Maile, two-years old at the time, only knew her brother’s love. Ready to confront Shane's dark past, Maile tries to reconcile the image of her hero and the infamous hitman he was.
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The idea is powerfully simple: engage the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional—yet unscripted—trial that never happened for one of the nation’s most disturbing recent tragedies. The accused is Officer Daniel Pantaleo (only recently fired by New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill), charged in the July 17, 2014 death of Eric Garner with reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first...
14) Call Her Ganda
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case; an activist attorney, a transgender journalist, and Jennifer’s mother, galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for Outstanding Documentary at the **GLAAD Media Awards**. "*As...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930's murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a German doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the Galapagos’ “Adam and Eve”, others flock there, including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson and a gun-toting Viennese Baroness and her two lovers....
17) Bei Bei
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An award winning dramatic narrative tells the true story of Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant in Indianapolis, and her lawyer, Linda Pence, battling charges of first-degree murder and attempted feticide. The crime? Attempting suicide while pregnant. This behind-the-scenes legal documentary weaves an intimate personal story with the dramatic intensity of a high stakes criminal case, raising questions about reproductive justice, personhood laws, immigrants’...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. This documentary traces the events — including the deadly encounters between American citizens and law enforcement at Ruby Ridge and Waco...
20) Three Girls
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A brutally honest drama, which takes us behind the headlines and makes us ask fundamental questions about how our society operates. Rochdale hit the headlines when 11 men from the Pakistani community were convicted of grooming and raping underage girls. Many of the children asked for help and were ignored, in some cases arrested, whilst their abusers continued to groom and attack other victims. It took ten years to bring these men to justice and many...
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