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- StarsHuey MorganRonCrossA docu-series that provides an inside look into various illegal activities and black markets around the world, where drugs, firearms and even people are reduced to mere commodities.
- StarsMike SecherAlex Cameron DimezDerrick HesseleinDocumentary style show that explores in depth how drugs in modern day society are sold, processed, and how police are cracking down on it.
- CreatorMarielle SkourasStarsCornell WomackChristian CipolliniI. Elijah BaughmanGangsters: America's Most Evil is a cinematic documentary series that explores the rise and fall of some of the most nefarious and notorious criminals brought to justice by the United States government.
- StarsJulian SherSteve CookJamal NeffFollows the evolution and power of gangs across the United States and abroad.
- StarsIan BellCraig Thomas RivelaRich GraffMaking of the Mob, is an eight-part docudrama that begins in 1905 and spans more than 50 years, tracing the original five families that led to the modern American Mafia, including the rise of Charles Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
- StarsSalvatore PolisiKenneth CarrellaJames ZeissDocumentary film about the Italian Mafia and their organized crime activities in USA, mainly New York, between the '60's to mid '90's. Well documented with plenty of interviews and original footage. Story told by ex-members of Mafia, FBI agents and prosecutors at that time, cops and journalists. It explains how they functioned, the rule of silence called Omerta, which five families ruled New York and how; and also how the FBI and US government managed to dismantle them after 30 years of the crime syndicate being untouchable. Listen to what Rudy Giuliani, Joseph D. Pistone aka 'Donnie Brasco' and many others had to say about it.
- StarsColin TierneySelwyn RaabThomas ReppettoTold by those who brought them to justice, this takes you through the rise and fall of some of the mafia's most notorious outlaws.
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsTim FoleyJosé Manuel 'El Doctor' MirelesPaco ValenciaFilmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.
- DirectorBilly CorbenStarsNelson AndreuEdna BuchananRandy ChristmasEnglish In 1980s Miami, cocaine traffickers brought unprecedented violence. This story shows how Miami became the drug, murder and money center of America.
- DirectorShaul SchwarzNarco Cultura (Spanish, English subtitles) takes viewers behind the scenes of narcocorridos, the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.
- StarsMartin ShortAladena FratiannoJoseph CantalupoThe True Story Of The Mafia.
- DirectorBilly CorbenStarsNelson AndreuJorge AyalaGriselda BlancoThe sequel follows cocaine dealer Charles Crosby beginning in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California. The story of Griselda Blanco is presented in greater depth.
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsTio HardimanAmeena MatthewsToya BateyA year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsRandall AdamsDavid HarrisGus RoseA film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
- "Red Mafia" reveals the corruption and embezzlement at the heart of the Soviet Union. This timely and stylish documentary series offers fascinating insight into the origins of modern, post-Soviet Russia.
- DirectorDavid BuksbaumStarsMartin AgronskyClarence Earl GideonArthur GoldbergA documentary on a celebrated U.S. Supreme Court case.
- DirectorAlan SwyerStarsSteve BinderSandy BorumJody BoyleIt's More Expensive To Do Nothing brings us into the dark and often forgotten world of criminal justice. Those who suffer the cycles of institutionalization, the complexities of implementing remediation and the programs that have worked to make life after prison possible. Award winning director Alan Swyer and Humane Exposures films, bring together a compelling range of voices - including experts in the field of criminology, service providers and ex-cons, to construct a concise overview of how the 'system' is failing to motivate criminals and addicts to change their behaviors to that of a more productive lifestyle.
- DirectorDawn PorterFollows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.
- 2002–20177.2 (9)TV EpisodeDirectorRachel JardineStarsDenis LawsonVic GatrellSeán McConvilleThe film investigates the ways school, religion and the justice service have been involved with corporal punishment and how it's imposition has also provoked debate from a sexual aspect.
- 2002–20178.0 (12)TV EpisodeDirectorFrancis WelchStarsDenis LawsonHarry PotterVic GatrellThe history of capital punishment, including the protocol of public execution and the science of hanging. Archive information reveals the offences that resulted in the gallows and how children as young as seven were hanged.
- StarsTony RobinsonThis series explores the evolution of law and the "rights of man" in Great Britain: from Chieftains, to Feudal Lords, to the Divine Right of Kings, to a modern independent judiciary in which no one--not even Monarchs are above the law.
- DirectorBarry GreenwaldAn unflinching look at ex-convicts, their parole officers and therapists, and the process that eases ex-cons back into society. For ten months, this cinema verite documentary followed the lives of seven men on the brink of freedom -- six deemed at high risk to reoffend -- as they struggled to remain on the right side of the law.
- StarsHarry PritchettDouglas A. RobbsAndrew J. RodneyA closer look at murder investigations that required law enforcement to untangle a complicated web of relationships in order to uncover the truth.
- StarsRuss HarrisRobert OlausenGlenn NelsonReal stories from real victims shown in re-enactments about how Stepmothers go from abusive parents to outright murderers.