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Great Crimes and Trials

📅 1993 ⭐ 10.0 🕐 30m US US

Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell. In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 26 episodes
E1
The Lindbergh Kidnapping 1993-11-02
E2
Lucky Luciano 1993-11-09
E3
Al Capone 1993-11-16
E4
Son of Sam 1993-11-23
E5
The Hillside Stranglers 1993-11-30
E6
John Dillinger - Public Enemy No. 1 1993-12-07
E7
The Manson Family Murders 1993-12-14
E8
The Jonestown Massacre 1993-12-21
E9
The Green Beret Killings 1993-12-28
E10
The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard 1994-01-04
E11
Neville Heath 1994-01-11
E12
Ted Bundy 1994-01-18
E13
Gary Gilmore 1994-01-25
E14
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 1994-02-01
E15
John Gacy 1994-02-08
E16
The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family 1994-02-15
E17
The Case of Dr Crippen 1994-02-22
E18
The Great Train Robbery 1994-03-01
E19
The Boston Strangler 1994-03-08
E20
Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer 1994-03-15
E21
John Christie of Rillington Place 1994-03-22
E22
The Black Panther 1994-03-29
E23
Murph the Surf 1994-04-05
E24
The Hammersmith Murders 1994-04-11
E25
The McKay Kidnapping 1994-04-18
E26
The Yorkshire Ripper 1994-04-25
Season 2 26 episodes
E1
Charles Starkweather - The Badlands Killer 1996-04-01
E2
Howard Hughes Autobiography Hoax 1996-04-08
E3
The Scarsdale Shooting 1996-04-15
E4
The S.L.A. Kidnap of Patty Hearst 1996-04-22
E5
Richard Speck - The Nurse Killer 1996-04-29
E6
Caryl Chessman - The Red Light Bandit 1996-05-06
E7
Roberts, Duddy and Witney - The Braybrook Street Massacre 1996-05-13
E8
The Bamber Family Murders 1996-05-20
E9
Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials 1996-05-27
E10
Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood 1996-06-03
E11
The Assassination of Gandhi 1996-06-10
E12
The Assassination of Martin Luther King 1996-06-17
E13
The Assassination of John F Kennedy 1996-06-24
E14
The A6 Murder 1996-07-01
E15
Dennis Nilsen - The Kindly Killer 1996-07-08
E16
Charles Whitman - The Austin Sniper 1996-07-15
E17
The Boston Brinks Robbery 1996-07-22
E18
Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker 1996-07-29
E19
The Rosenbergs - Atom Spies? 1996-08-05
E20
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa 1996-08-12
E21
Dan White - The City Hall Killer 1996-08-19
E22
Bonnie and Clyde 1996-08-26
E23
Wayne Williams - The Atlanta Killer 1996-09-02
E24
The Escapes from Alcatraz 1996-09-09
E25
The KKK Killings 1996-09-16
E26
New York Mafia Wars 1996-09-23
Season 3 26 episodes
E1
Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon
E2
Gaston Dominici and the Drummond Murders
E3
Henry Lee Lucas - The Highway Stalker
E4
Donald Hume - The Setty Case
E5
John Duffy - The Railway Killer
E6
Graham Young - The Compulsive Poisoner
E7
Sir Harry Oakes - The Bahamas Murder Mystery
E8
Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce)
E9
Defeo and Benson - Inheritance Killers
E10
Donald Merrett - The Murderous Buccaneer
E11
Roy Fontaine - The Deadly Butler
E12
Buck Ruxton - The Ravine Bodies Mystery
E13
Leonard Lake and Charles NG - The Calaveras County Serial Killings
E14
John Bodkin Adams and Other Infamous Doctors
E15
Heidnick and Dahmer - Killers for Company
E16
Judge Joe Peel and the Chillingworth Murders
E17
Sacco and Vanzetti - Anarchy and Murder
E18
The Trunk Murders
E19
Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killings
E20
The Siege of Sidney Street
E21
Leopold and Loeb
E22
The Zodiac Killer and Other Unsolved Serial Murders
E23
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
E24
Pol Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia
E25
The Massacre at Malmedy
E26
Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies
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