Just Melvin, Just Evil

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Just Melvin, Just Evil is the most disturbing documentary you will ever see. It’s a hard-to-find documentary about the tormented family of Melvin Just, a man so wicked it’s almost unbelievable. In it, they describe their decades-long experience of abuse, even admitting to knowing about the murders he committed to keep their crimes a secret. […]

Pirate Fishing

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Precious marine resources for some of the world’s poorest people are being plundered by industrial-scale predatory fisheries to supply hungry markets in Europe and Asia. In a special two-part investigation, People and Power set out to identify and expose some of those involved in the multimillion-dollar trade, specifically researching its impact on the impoverished West […]

How to Get Away with Stealing

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This short documentary shows how easy it is to create fake passports and spend thousands of dollars to lure rich people into trusting you. If the fraud industry were a separate country, it would be the fifth largest economy in the world, after the UK. Meet the con man who murdered the fastest growing crime […]

Jonestown: Paradise Lost

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An evangelical pastor has led nearly 1,000 followers from the United States deep into the jungles of South America. They will forge a new community free of oppression and violence that will become their paradise on earth, but outsiders threaten to expose their leader’s dark side. In one day, the two worlds collide and Paradise […]

City of God, Guns and Gangs

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It’s one of the most beautiful places on Earth, but also one of the most dangerous. In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, violent drug gangs operate with recklessness and no regard for human life. Now, after decades of chaos, Brazilian authorities are trying to restore order. They use army-like forces and a new approach […]

Land of Missing Children: The Rape Trade

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Teenage girls are victims of one of the fastest growing industries in the world – sex trafficking. Northeastern India is known for its tea plantations and Himalayas scenery. An ancient crossroads of trade routes between Bhutan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh, the town of Siliguri has always been at the center of international trade. Some 30,000 […]

Terror in Moscow

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On a rainy Wednesday night in October, hundreds of people attended a musical at the Ball Bearing Factory Theater in Moscow. The show is a romantic love story set in Stalin’s Russia. As the audience adjusted for the second half of the show, dozens of heavily armed men and women arrived at the theater in […]

Cropsey

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The urban legend of realizing her youth has indeed come true; the two filmmakers delve into the mystery of five missing children, and the real-life demons linked to their disappearance. Cropsey is a crime horror documentary written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Blancajo. The film begins by investigating New York urban legend “Cropsey,” […]

Battling the Yakuza

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Organized crime groups are deeply entrenched in Japanese history. Known as the Jakuza, they were once considered gangsters with a strict code of honor who helped the police fight the criminal underworld. The Yakuza in Japan can be traced back 400 years to the Edo period. But long gone are the days when they protected […]

Guns, Culture and Crime in the US

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We examine why the gun control debate is so polarized, and travel to West Virginia – where gun shooting is a sport that has been passed down through generations – to find out what fuels this country’s love of guns. Are Americans as divided as their politicians? The Newtown shooting that killed 20 schoolchildren and […]