In the Executioner’s Shadow examines the death penalty's profound moral conflicts. A former executioner nearly kills an innocent man; a bombing victim wrestles with the concept of justice; and grieving parents fight to spare their daughter's killer. This powerful film forces viewers to confront t...

Through conversations with an array of Norwegian writers, filmmakers, psychiatrists, artists and more, Izquierdo investigates the impact of both the film and novel Sult by Knut Hamsun on generations of Norwegian culture and artistic practice, while exploring how it could speak about what it means...

Finding Freedom that explores rehabilitation through the stories of Franklin and Malcolm, who after being released from South Africa’s notorious prison system, work to redefine the freedom that comes with life after a life sentence.

Uncle Ezequiel is serving a six-year prison sentence. What crime did this Cuban farmer commit? Answer: He sold his own cow. Filmmaker Salvador Gieling, a cousin by marriage, just can’t get his head around it. And if he can’t, how will Luca – Salvador’s two-year-old son and Ezequiel’s nephew – eve...

Vincenzo Pipino is a thief, he was convicted and has done over 25 years in prison both in Italy and in the rest of Europe and has expiated his faults. The documentary tells the story of this last gentleman thief.

“Money mules” are people lured on the Internet and forced to launder money for hacker gangs and organized crime. Apparently serious jobs offers which become a nightmare. The documentary follows the money flow from Switzerland to Russia.

It is the most serious scandal ever hitting the modern art market. An affair that has made experts and auction houses tremble and has re-proposed the ghost of forgery. The facts date back to 2017 in Genoa, where an exhibition dedicated to the painter Amedeo Modigliani from Livorno was closed by t...

In October 2019 an unthinkable tragedy hit the peaceful village of Jura in Switzerland. Christophe Keller slit his wife Mélanie's throat before cutting his own. The crime shocked the whole country. What had happened between this couple, living a seemingly ordinary life with their three children? ...

Police brutality against marginalised communities is not isolated to American shores. In 2015, David Dungay Jr., an Aboriginal Australian, died in police custody. The coroner later found a “lack of oxygen while he was restrained as a contributing factor to his death”,

In 2011, six police officers in Fullerton, California, beat Kelly Thomas, a homeless schizophrenic man, so badly that he died of his injuries. Three years later, protests in Hollywood sparked after the officers were acquitted or had their charges dropped. Renowned filmmaker Dylan Avery attended t...

Cruise ships gave coronavirus a free ride around the world this Spring. While infected passengers think the Ruby Princess should be sailed out to sea and sunk, its owner company is busy marketing post-Covid cruises. Far from protecting people, the release of the ship’s passengers onto Australian ...

During a police interrogation in the US, a complex psychological tactic is used to get suspects to confess to crimes. Over the years, behind closed doors, in rooms devoid of recording devices to document the process, trained interrogators have been monumentally successful at getting defendants to...

On the streets of Denmark, trafficked, men and women are exploited by transnational criminal networks who prey on their vulnerability with promises if a better life. Edward is struggling to pay off the traffickers who brought him from Nigeria to sell their drugs. Nigeria's corruption and lack of ...

Thousands of young people are dying from drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar. With the government failing to act, civilians formed “Pat Jasan” (meaning “Stop and Clean the drugs”) to eradicate the problem. This has led to violent clashes between the vigilante group and powerful drug lords.

"Outside the Court" films outside a UK magistrates court, asking people why they are there. This simple idea challenges preconceptions about criminality, presenting raw, unfiltered personalities. The result is a transparent film that questions assumptions about who criminals are, even showing a c...

In a remote Russian forest, 7 hours from any city, lies a unique prison. Penal Colony 56 holds 260 men, collectively responsible for nearly 800 murders. It is Russia's only prison exclusively for killers, enduring brutal -40°C winters.

Biggie & Tupac is a no holds barred investigation into the unsolved murders of two of the biggest superstars rap has ever produced; Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls and The Notorious B.I.G.). Both stars were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop...

“Justice for Sale” follows Claudine, a courageous Congolese lawyer. Investigating a soldier’s rape conviction, she uncovers an unfair trial with little evidence. Her fight exposes a broken judicial system where legal principles are ignored, creating countless victims. The documentary critiques th...

After a young woman's corpse is found in a suitcase in a London canal, a diverse community reacts. Marc Isaacs intimately captures the aftermath. For some, like a Polish neighbor, it's chillingly close to home. For another, an assault survivor, it's deeply triggering, while others remain detached...

The son of Pablo Escobar, Sebastian, recounts his childhood of extreme luxury and life on the run with his father, Colombia's most wanted man. His story is intertwined with those of two of Escobar's most prominent victims: a Minister of Justice and a presidential candidate, as told by their sons....