The Family I Had(2017)

In 1973, Michael and Patrick McDonagh were sentenced to life in prison for a murder they didn't commit. In Mark Williams-Thomas' latest investigation, he examines the evidence, speaks to witnesses, and unearths a conspiracy to the course of justice.

When a classmate gets in her way, a true crime-obsessed teenage girl goes to extreme lengths to create her very own true crime.

A star goalkeeper threatens a woman who is pregnant with his child. Her pleas for help go unanswered in the shadow of his fame — then tragedy strikes.

Based on the true story of the Whittington brothers—three historically famous race car drivers, two of whom were part of the 1980s IMSA scandal in which a number of drivers were charged with financing their racing activities with proceeds from drug smuggling, money laundering, or tax evasion.

Featuring testimony from friends, neighbours, journalists and detectives at the heart of the search for Shannon Matthews, this is the inside story of a case that became a defining moment in British public life, a missing child caught in the middle of a media frenzy, and a case that sparked debates that still resonate today. This two-part series explores how truth, trust and community unravelled under the weight of suspicion and scrutiny.

The story of how surgeon Ian Paterson duped his patients into believing they had cancer and performed unnecessary surgeries on them before he was caught and jailed for 20 years.

Based on a true story, and recreated from the personal account of one of the robbers, the film follows an immigrant from mainland China in 1975 as he works with a team to plan to rob an armored car carrying seven million dollars from the Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong.

A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

Inspired by a book by acclaimed historian Simon Schama, Murder at Harvard uses a combination of film-noir drama and present-day documentary footage to tell the true tale of one of the most notorious American crimes of the 19th century. Grappling with frustrating gaps in the historical record, Schama assumes the role of a time-travelling detective who takes an unusual step for an historian and imagines how certain scenes and encounters might have played out. "Maybe I thought what I was after was not a literal documentary truth," Schama tells us, "but a poetic truth — an imaginative truth — and for that I was going to have to become my own Resurrection man. I was going to have to make these characters live again."

A father fights for decades to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France and Germany before taking extreme measures.

Black vomit? Aliens? When British conspiracy theorist Max Spiers died suddenly in Poland in July 2016 the case was immediately shrouded in mystery. Just before his death he asked his mum to investigate should anything happen to him. So little is known about how or why he died that the gaps have quickly been filled by fantastical theories. India Rakusen heads to Poland to try to find the answers his family are desperately waiting for.

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.