Into the Abyss powerful and thought-provoking look at capital punishment through the lens of a triple homicide case in Montgomery County, Texas. Directed by Werner Herzog, it focuses on the aftermath of a brutal crime that oc...
Norway Massacre: The Killer’s Mind analyses the mind and motives of Anders Breivik, the far-right extremist behind the 2011 Norway massacre that killed 77 people. Regarded as the country’s worst atrocity since the Second Worl...
Russia’s Toughest Prisons provides a rare look inside three of Russia’s most notorious maximum-security facilities. For the first time, Western cameras were granted access to these institutions, offering a glimpse into the li...
Florida’s Miami-Dade County jail system is one of the largest and most industrial prison complexes in the United States. With a capacity of over fifteen hundred inmates, the prison has long been accused of corruption, abuse o...
Law and Disorder in Johannesburg follows documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux as he travels to a place that has been described as one of the most dangerous cities on the planet. Johannesburg, South Africa, has one of the highe...
John Lennon’s assassination in December 1980 sent shockwaves around the world. The Day John Lennon Died revisits the tragic events of December 8, 1980, reconstructing the legendary musician’s final hours and the immediate aft...
Tabloid recounts the sensational story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who became the centre of a tabloid frenzy in 1970s Britain. Directed by Errol Morris, it focuses on the infamous “Case of the Manacl...
In 2008, two Swedish sisters, Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, were filmed by BBC cameras throwing themselves into oncoming traffic on a British motorway. The shocking scenes came to national attention in the UK, where they were w...
The Craigslist Killer: Seven Days of Rage chronicles the shocking crimes of Philip Markoff, a Boston University medical student who terrorised women he met through Craigslist in April 2009. It recounts Markoff’s seven-day cri...
Terror in Mumbai recounts the harrowing events of the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. It utilises a variety of sources to construct a comprehensive narrative of the attack, including previously unheard teleph...
The Madoff Affair investigates the story of Bernard Madoff, the man behind one of the largest financial frauds in history. On December 11, 2008, Madoff confessed that his investment business was “one big lie”, a Ponzi scheme...
Filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio examine the origins of an urban legend well known in their hometown of Staten Island. Growing up, they often heard tales of an elusive boogeyman-type figure known as Cropsey. Cro...