Documentaries : Crime

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. 'Cocaine Cowboys' is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the pe...

This is a riveting documentary, asking the question does snuff exist? Investigates the existence of real snuff movies, films in which deaths are not simulated but real, and whether they are just an urban myth or do exist. Directors and producers talk about how they created horrfic scenes using mock-...

The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined...

Street gangs armed with automatic weapons threaten the lives of teens in Detroit. NGC joins the elite police unit of 70 men and women tasked with turning the tide in the war against gangs....

Liviu Tipurita returns to his homeland of Romania to investigate stories he has heard that there has been a sudden rise in the trafficking of children into the sex trade. He meets an old friend, fifteen-year-old street kid Laurentiu, who tells him he's been selling sex to foreign paedophiles since h...

In the 1950s, Mafia-built Las Vegas became a cash cow for organized crime, but when the richest man in the world arrived, things changed and the feds blew the lid on the original Gangster's Paradise....

The story is right out of a Hollywood blockbuster...but in this case it's better because it is real. The DEA's takedown of Monzer al-Kassar has all the twists and turns of a Bourne Supremacy plot......

An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician....

A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence....

The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack, in the words of its victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened w...