Crime

A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads down a destructive path for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, a coming-apart-at-the-seams amateur photographer, his vindictive and murderous fiancee, her secret lover and a strung-out mall Santa…as they all converge in one explosive and deadly night.

While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime. In part is Known for his dubious medical practices and shady financial deals, the Nazi occupation liberated Dr. Marcel Petio's murderous instincts, enabling him to embark on a shocking killing spree.

This hard hitting documentary dramatised the extraordinary story of Charles Bronson told though his own words and those who knew him.

When the Menendez brothers were tried on national TV for brutally killing their parents in Beverly Hills, their story became a national obsession.

When the US military takes over the German Kronberg Castle in 1945, a scandalous affair between a US Army Captain and Air Force Officer ensues, resulting in one of the most elaborate treasure heists of all time.

Ex-soap stars Gemma McCluskie and Sian Blake were murdered.

To an undercover detective and his partner, events seem like typical gangland power struggle, but a feared criminal puppeteer seeks a powerful artifact with which to change the balance of power, and gain the power of gods.

“Crime Does Not Pay” — a positively addictive collection of all 50 shorts released by the Warner Archive Collection — is a standout dramatic crime series with very high production values, solid casts, and first-rate scripts, atmospheric cinematography, excellent special effects and made with care by such future directing greats as Fred Zinneman, Jacques Toureur and Joseph Losey, as well as gifted journeymen like Joe Newman, Roy Rowland, Felix Feist, the mysterious Errol Taggart, future Dr. Kildare series director Harold Bucquet.

Eye-opening documentary following officers from the NYPD's elite Crime Scene Unit as they searched for evidence - and survivors - in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Join host Ali Wentworth as Explorer reveals a breakthrough in crime solving. Witness how new DNA analysis is beginning to allow investigators to create modern mugshots and reopen cold cases. Also a study of why some Afghan parents are dressing their girls as boys; and a profile of snowboarder Shaun White. A jet pack is taken for a flight, and physicist Michio Kaku talks about the limitations of jet packs.