Jill Dando born 1961 was an English journalist, she was one of Britians most well known television presenters having won BBC's Personality of the Year award in 1997. At the time of her death (1999), she was the presenter of the BBC programme Crimewatch.At the pinnacle of her career when she was mercilessly gunned down outside her house in Fulham, London. Her killer left the scene witho
The Murder of Fred Hampton began as a film portrait of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party, but half way through the shoot, Hampton was murdered by Chicago policeman. In an infamous moment in Chicago history and politics, over a dozen policeman burst into Hampton’s apartment while its occupants were sleeping, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark and brutalizing the other occupant
The Murder Detectives is by far one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, it is a truly groundbreaking three part series which sees Channel 4 gain unprecedented access to an 18 month long murder investigation carried out by the Avon and Somerset Police.Throughout the course of this series we are taken on a complete journey, a journey which begins the very moment a young man calls 999
The infant and maternal mortality rates in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam are 10 times higher than the national average. This Al Jazeera film tells the story of a Hmong ethnic minority midwife who has been trained to provide maternal care to her community in the isolated Chi Ca commune. Filmmakers: Nick Ahlmark and Nicole Precel / Storytime Films
a documentary exploring the social impact Motown Records had on American society and Civil Rights during the 60's and 70's.featuring interviews with:Lamont Dozier Randy Jackson Paul Gambaccini Fred Bronson Chris Sampson Audley Smithbrief history of the origins of Motownbackground on the state of civil rights at the timehow the music of Motown influenced, and was influenced
The Most Unknown is a first of its kind hour and a half epic journey which sends nine scientists all over the world with the common goal of uncovering the answers to some of our biggest questions, these being how did life begin? what exactly is time? what is consciousness? and how much do we really know?Each one of these scientists have excelled in a particular area of research bu
The Courtlands Hotel in Hove, United Kingdom is used by its owner Nicholas van Hoogstraten to run a business empire he claims is worth around £800 million, it spans three continents encompassing property, mines, farms, art, shares and money lending.Nick is one of Britain's richest and most infamous men and in July 2002 he was arrested for manslaughter following the murder of Mohammed Raja.
When we attempt to think of the most evil man to have ever lived most people tend to jump to one person, that being Adolf Hitler. However, throughout the ages there have been many men who could be considered to have been just as evil as Hitler, some perhaps were even worse.This documentary series does a fantastic job at rounding up and profiling some of these evil men, men who have committed m
Ramnicu Valcea is a town which is located in the center of Romania, at first glance it appears to be a typical town for the region, although quite beautiful. One would never suspect it of being the notorious 'Hackerville', a home to some of the most prolific cyber criminals the age of computing has ever seen. The Most Dangerous Town on The Internet examines these criminal activities and the threat