Using re-enactments, archival footage and photos, and interviews with family, friends, neighbors, crime experts and law enforcement, EVIL UP CLOSE examines the lives of Britain's most notorious modern-day criminals, including: Levi Bellfield, a part-time pimp and a nightclub bouncer, who murdered British schoolgirl Milly Dowler -- but she wasn't his last victim; Derrick 'Birdy' Bird, a self-employed taxi driver in the North of England, who shot his twin brother David and his family's solicitor, before continuing a shooting spree that hit 24 people, and killed 12, and many more.
Three prisoners on run try to rob three banks. They are well-prepared and know how to run away with the booty. Is someone handling them from behind the screens?
The gripping true crime event follows a re-enactment of a real manslaughter case, presented word-for-word with actors, before a new jury of 12 everyday Australians. But will they come to the same verdict as the original trial?
A Russian oligarch's spying on the Finnish government and power battle with Kremlin push Finland to the brink of war with Russia. It is up to Finnish Secret Police detective Arto Ratamo to expose the oligarch's ruthless manoeuvres before Russia invades Finland.
The story of each crime is woven together through raw, unfiltered video from the point of view of officer body cam and surveillance footage for a first-hand look at justice in action. Each episode follows the entire arc of an investigation - capturing crimes as they unfold in real time, exactly as they happened, with no reenactments or narration. From the first 911 call to the final verdict, every angle, every split-second decision, and every pulse-pounding confrontation is presented in vivid detail. The result is a visceral, edge-of-your-seat experience where viewers feel the weight of responsibility as officers make instant, life-altering choices, giving an unparalleled, 360-degree view of each case.
Follow mothers who go to extreme lengths to save and protect their children from murder, international kidnapping, mass suicide and judicial corruption. The episodes will reveal how each mother took matters into their own hands and organized covert operations.
Elbrus Tamayev, a guy from a working-class family, was brought up in the spirit of fundamental male principles: not to offend the weak, to be able to fight back and help those in need. During his school years, he makes a friend and a girlfriend. Elbrus gets a job on a dry cargo ship. His friend pulls off a drug scam. It is exposed, and Elbrus becomes the scapegoat in this case... He is sentenced to life imprisonment in a prison for especially dangerous criminals, from which it is impossible to escape. But the hero - now his name is none other than Graf Krestovsky - succeeds twenty years later. He returns to his homeland and begins to take revenge on those who treated him so cruelly.
When journalist Lucija Car is sent to report on the demolition of Croatia’s oldest prison, she stumbles across a graveyard of unclaimed bodies and senses that there are more secrets to be unearthed. An absorbing crime thriller that interweaves the story of each newly discovered victim with Croatia’s dark political history.
Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. The hunt for a serial killer stretches to California as detectives unravel a tangled web of abuse and murder.
Journalist Claude Leroy reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir. An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat, and a young girl, Françoise Cordier, Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
Teenager Tian Ye is wrongly accused in a series of violent attacks, but the determined prosecutor Chen Feng uncovers a deeper revenge plot and the teen’s true sacrifice. Together, they seek justice, helping Tian Ye rebuild his life while exposing the real criminal.