As of recent times the city of Milwaukee in the United States is said to be one of the most racially divided and deprived. Gun crime seems to be at an all time high with homicide rates through the roof, it is the perfect example of America's turbulent relationship with guns where the divide between African-American communities and the police has never been clearer. In this film we
An actress turns up dead at the home of Phil Spector and the music legend is charged with murder. Crime writer Aphrodite Jones uncovers videotape that Spector hoped would clear his name, but instead is a damning self-portrait.
Day by day, hour by hour, our planet’s rarest creatures are being hunted, trapped and slaughtered to feed a global black market in wildlife products.For years, Patrick Brown has traveled across Asia to document the devastating impact of wildlife trafficking. Now he’d like to bring his work to a worldwide audience, by producing a campaigning photographic book called “Trading to Extinction.”
The Tool Box Killers consist of two individuals who committed some of the most horrendous crimes in America. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris together decided to kidnap, rape, torture and murder five teenage girls over a 5 month period in southern California back in 1979.Bittaker would later be described by FBI agent John Douglas as one of the most disturbing individuals he ha
Japan is currently facing a silent epidemic, stalkers appear to be terrorising many women, with incidents occurring all across the country. In 2013 there were 21,000 cases of stalking reported to the police making the fear of being stalked a haunting reality for many Japanese women.This epidemic appears to be isolated to Japan, with the nation taking the number one spot in terms of worldwide s
Unsolved, unresolved, terrible crimes from the troubles in Northern Ireland but these are no ordinary killings. This is the story of why the state is accused of standing in the way of truth and justice. It's a story of how the state helped and protected killers, killers of innocent people, its why the past will not and cannot simply go away.Once a suspicion, now a fact, there were murders on the
In the past three years more than £13 million worth of metal has been stolen from Britain’s railway network. Cables, wiring and the rails themselves are removed by thieves who take advantage of the relative accessibility of the metal and the high prices it will fetch. (Thanks to Chinese demand, prices have risen 500 per cent in a decade.) Cameras follow British Transport Police in Yorkshire as the
Alcatraz was a high security prison built with concrete and steel on an island surrounded by the frigid waters of San Fransisco Bay. For almost 30 years Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was the countries toughest prison and a living hell for the high risk and high profile trouble makers men like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly and the Birdman Robert Stroud. It's a prison where every inmate learns o
Boarding schools are amongst the most influential institutions in Britain, responsible for education many of our politicians, judges and business leaders, even three quarters of England's Prime Ministers. An estimated million people in the country boarded as children but it is only now, decades on that the true extent of sexual abuse in these schools is coming to light.In this film we see ITV'