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Movie: Blackfish ( 2013 )
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
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Movie: There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane ( 2011 )
This documentary explores the depth behind the case of a woman whose vehicle collision killed numerous people, including herself. Was she really the reckless drunk, or the perfect suburban mother?
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Movie: The Boy Who Lived Before ( 2017 )
Cody, a young boy haunted by memories of a past life, delves into the online world, attracting the attention of a budding film crew looking for sensational stories. Cody's big brother Oliver is his confidant and guide as the pair moves through changing Seattle landscapes. As the memories become stronger and translated through the internet, the brothers confront their parents, who struggle to answer Cody's questions about his past. Will this process help him move beyond these troubling memories? Or trap him inside them forever?
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Movie: A Certain Kind of Death ( 2003 )
Unblinking and unsettling, this documentary lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us - what happens to people who die with no next of kin.
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Movie: Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home ( 2010 )
Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course - but more importantly we found life, hope and incredibly powerful human journeys.
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Movie: Los Scandalous - Skid Row ( 2014 )
See what makes Skid Row tick, a tell all, never before seen, raw documentary about the harsh reality of the street life in Los Scandalous - Skid Row. The homeless capital of The United States. Watch through my lens, as I show the true gutter life in Los Angeles; from prostitution, homelessness, hard addiction, the drug dealers perspective, police corruption and the sy...Read all
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Movie: Dick: The Documentary ( 2014 )
In August 2008, filmmaker Brian Fender posted an add on Craigslist to solicit volunteers for a documentary project. He invited "subjects" into his living room to strip down and reveal themselves physically and emotionally through personal stories about their relationship to their penises. Fender interviewed a vast cross-section of anonymous, naked men about their prized appendage: from monks to transsexuals to ex-marines to designers, ranging in age from 21 to 80. Hoping to demystify, illuminate, and even celebrate this "member" in our society, this DIY documentary is a candid exploration of what it means to have a dick.
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TV Show: American Murder: Laci Peterson ( 2024 )
In this riveting true-crime docuseries, loved ones, experts and jurors revisit Laci Peterson's disappearance and the ensuing murder investigation.
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Movie: American Murder: The Family Next Door ( 2020 )
In 2018, 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her two young daughters disappear in Colorado. With the heartbreaking details emerging, the family's story made headlines around the world.
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TV Show: Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery ( 2017 )
Lies, betrayal, and murder - what happened to Caylee Anthony? This three-part special looks inside one of the most controversial murder cases in American history. Explore new revelations in the case that outraged the nation.
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TV Show: An American Murder Mystery: The Staircase ( 2018 )
An American Murder Mystery: The Staircase is the unabridged story of the suspicious death of Kathleen Peterson and the trial of her husband, Michael, for her murder. The three-night event features all-new and exclusive interviews with key players in the case, most notably Candace Zamperini, Kathleen's sister and Brent Wolgamott, a male escort whom Michael was emailing with at the time of the crime, as well as legal experts, jurors and reporters who covered the case from the very beginning.
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TV Show: Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery ( 2018 )
Sadomasochistic sex, obsession, and jealousy gone wrong create a deadly combination in the twisted tale of Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery which re-examines one of the most salacious and sensational crimes to rock the nation. In the latest installment of the record-breaking American Murder Mystery franchise, leading true-crime network Investigation Discovery (ID) delves into the explosive investigation and trial of Jodi Arias for the murder of Travis Alexander in a case that was almost too stunning to be believed. When 30-year-old Alexander is found brutally murdered in his Mesa, Arizona home, police are shocked – who would have wanted to harm the popular salesman with no known enemies? But soon, investigators receive a bizarre phone call that changes everything. The caller is Alexander's mysterious ex-girlfriend – Jodi Arias. What happens next is too shocking to be real – but, it is.
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Movie: Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery ( 2017 )
Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery looks backs at the case 15 years ago that sent Scott Peterson to prison for the death of his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son Conner. Scott Peterson: An American Murder Mystery reexamines the murder and sheds new light on the case, key players, and gets to the bottom of what happened.
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Movie: Truth and Lies: The Menendez Brothers - American Sons, American Murderers ( 2017 )
A look back at the Menendez brothers case and determine the motive.
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Movie: The Toolbox Killer ( 2021 )
Story of two American serial killers and rapists who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed five teenage girls in Southern California over a period of five months in 1979.
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TV Show: BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer ( 2020 )
BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer recounts the notorious killer's crimes, the decades long investigation that captured him, and the effect his brutal murders had on everyone in his orbit, especially his daughter who speaks openly about what it is like to be the daughter of a serial killer.
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Movie: Unraveled: The Long Island Serial Killer ( 2021 )
Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer is a true crime streaming special that examines one of the biggest murder mysteries in American history. Its been a decade since eleven bodies were discovered on the coast of Long Island. Hosts Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen investigates the murders and expose the untold story of why the case remains unsolved.
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TV Show: Women Behind Bars ( 2013 )
Sir Trevor McDonald ventures inside two of Indiana's most dangerous female prisons, and witnesses a world of seduction and manipulation as inmates prey on each other and those who guard them. Trevor gets unique access to Rockville Penitentiary, the largest female prison in Indiana. Here hundreds of women are processed each week, both murderers and continual re-offenders alike. Trevor also goes to Indiana Women's Prison, housing the most extreme cases. He meets some of the most dangerous offenders and women who will spend the rest of their life behind bars.
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Movie: Louis Theroux: Behind Bars ( 2008 )
For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.
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Movie: Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles ( 2009 )
Louis visits Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, home to over 500 convicted paedophiles, and spends some time with those undergoing treatment.
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Movie: Selling the Girl Next Door ( 2011 )
A short documentary about men renting girls on the internet who are barely in their teens.
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Movie: The Bridge ( 2007 )
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material.