For three weeks in October, 2002, a seemingly invisible, deadly accurate sniper terrorizes the residents of Washington D.C. and the surrounding suburbs of Maryland and Northern Virginia by randomly targeting ordinary citizens in the most common public places-gas stations, shopping mall parking lots, city streets. Ten are killed, three badly wounded...

Episode 1, DC Sniper

Factual

Documentary

Explores historic news events in depth. Each episode focuses on a single major news event that was considered not only shocking at the time, but has since had far reaching repercussions. Employing executive producer Ridley Scott's signature visual style, the series builds on archived and never-before-seen footage...

Crimes Of The Century

Series 1

Explores historic news events in depth, employing executive producer Ridley Scott...

On the night of December 8, 1980, the entire world was stunned by the murder of former Beatle John Lennon, whose popularity and influence transcended music. The killer was Mark Chapman, a 25-year-old fan and drifter from Hawaii.

Episode 2, John Lennon Assassination

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her 5 small children in the bathtub of their suburban Houston home. The nation was outraged, first and foremost, by the crime itself. But also by Yates' plea of not guilty by reason of insanity … even though she had freely confessed to the murders

Episode 3, Andrea Yates

Monday, March 30, 1981. A routine presidential speaking engagement becomes a national nightmare when a gunman fires six shots at Ronald Reagan on the streets of Washington DC. The President is hit as he's shoved into his limo.

Episode 4, Reagan Assassination Attempt

On the morning of April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was torn apart by a powerful truck bomb. The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680. Until September 11, 2001, it was the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil. 

Episode 5, Oklahoma City Bombing

It is November 2007. Amanda Knox - an American exchange student living in Perugia, Italy - is arrested and tried for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, a British student living in the same cottage.

Episode 6, Amanda Knox

It began with a routine ATF investigation, and ended with one of the worst debacles in American law enforcement history- a blazing inferno at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, killing 80 people, including four Federal agents....

Episode 7, WACO

From 1978 to 1995, Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, a former mathematician with a PhD from the University of Michigan, engaged in a nationwide bombing campaign against modern technology, planting or mailing 16 home-made bombs to unsuspecting victims.