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