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Genres / Documentary / Crime
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The After Party
In 1993, the film THE LAST PARTY was released. The documentary followed Robert Downey Jr.'s initiation in to the world of politics. In 2000 came the sequel, THE PARTY'S OVER, following Philip Seymour Hoffman on the campaign trail. The third film in the trilogy, THE AFTER PARTY, is a documentary about a journalist who is...Start your free trial to watch
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Anne Perry: Interiors
Anne Perry is one of the leading authors of our time. She specializes in crime novels and is famous worldwide but her books hide a very real tale of murder and everlasting regret. Since she was 15 years old, Anne has carried an awful secret, a story of a young murderer forever trying to get beyond her...Start your free trial to watch
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Blood Antiquities
The European art trade, synonymous with wealth and glamour, has always involved a degree of stolen and smuggled art. Now, Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage is financing terrorism and the Taliban. From Afghans scrabbling in the sand for treasures, to the dazzling show rooms of unscrupulous dealers and...Start your free trial to watch
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Citizen Juling
How did a young idealist, Buddhist art teacher Juling from the far North, end up lying comatose in a pool of blood at a village kindergarten school in the deep Islamic South? Colorful human rights activist and senator Kraisak Choonhavan goes on the road to understand what happened and why. Definitely not a straight enquiry...Start your free trial to watch
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Crips: Strapped 'n Strong
Main C is fresh out of jail and fighting to get out of the gang to be a father. Santos is lying low and wants to "become somebody" again but leader Keylow holds the cards to both their fates. STRAPPED 'N STRONG is a jaw-dropping insight into the Dutch branch of the Crips as well as into the workings of the...Start your free trial to watch
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The House of Suh
One of Chicago's most famous murder cases surrounded sister and brother Catherine and Andrew Suh, first-generation Korean Americans, who conspired against, shot and killed Catherine's former boyfriend. Over a decade later, director Iris Shim revisits the case and opens a Pandora's box of family secrets...Start your free trial to watch
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A Jail in Columbia
A look inside La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombian officials, the prison in reality is controlled more by the prisoners than the guards (with 5,000 prisoners for 2,400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to La Modelo). The prison is awash in violence...Start your free trial to watch
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The Jaundiced Eye
This harrowing documentary chronicles the decade long trials and traumas incurred by a gay Michigan man, Stephen Matthews, and his straight father, Melvin Matthews, who were wrongfully accused by Stephen's ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend of molesting Stephen's son. Despite the fact that there was no...Start your free trial to watch
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The Jena 6
Jena, LA: in a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives. Two nooses are left as a warning to black students trying to integrate their playground, fights break out across town, a white man pulls a shotgun on black students, someone burns down most of their school, the DA puts six black students...Start your free trial to watch
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Kidneys on Ice
In a world where everything is for sale, is it wrong to sell your own kidney? Or to buy an illegal organ if it could save your life? Every year 15,000 human organs are trafficked from impoverished Europeans to recipients in more privileged countries. A shocking film on an intractable subject.Start your free trial to watch
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Of Dolls and Murder
Before forensics, DNA and CSI we had dollhouses: an unimaginable collection of miniature crime scenes, known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. These surreal dollhouses reveal a dystopic and disturbing slice of domestic life with doll corpses for murder victims, or perhaps something that looks...Start your free trial to watch
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The Past is a Foreign Country
In April 1989, a body floats down the Colorado River with a bullet wound in the back of its head. That body is John H. Jenkins, rare book and historical document dealer. He had been at the epicenter of one of the largest document-forgery scandals in Texas history and his death (legally ruled suicide) is...Start your free trial to watch
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Sequestro
In Sao Paulo, kidnapping is an established business. Lucrative and hectic. For four years a film crew followed the police department's anti-kidnapping division (DAS), riding along to locate houses holding captives, listening in on phone calls, freeing horrified victims and busting criminals. Raw, powerful and with incredible...Start your free trial to watch
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Tax Me If You Can
We all know the mega rich pay much less tax than the rest of us but just how do they do it? After years working for a Liechtenstein bank, an employee turned whistleblower made off with thousands of incriminating documents. He then sold the data to a number of Western governments, who use it to track the...Start your free trial to watch
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Unraveled
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white-collar crime...Start your free trial to watch