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Showing 1 - 10 of 37 titles with a criteria of Subject is Crime and Criminals
Battaglia
She's made a name for herself. She takes stark black and white photographs. In this impressionistic biography Letizia Battaglia is filmed in constant motion and color. A film about contrasts, on all levels.
First Hand Films | 2002 | 58 minutes
Broken Lines
Joe Soll has spent half of his life searching for his birth parents, in the process he uncovered a mystery that’s haunted him for years.
MediaStorm | 2011 | 10 minutes
A Common Purpose
The trial of the "Upington 25" in South Africa in 1986 saw twenty-five men and women from a black township tried for the murder of a local black policeman.
Icarus Films | 2014 | 75 minutes
Contact, Ep. 7 - Yakuza by Bruce Gilden
Members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, are revealed in a series of irreverent photographs taken by Bruce Gilden.
First Hand Films | 2014 | 26 minutes
Conviction
Bianca, Treena, Laura, and Caitlin are a stark reflection of the troubling worldwide tendency to criminalize and imprison the most vulnerable in society—those most affected by poverty, addiction, childhood trauma, and mental illness.
National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 78 minutes
Dr. Feelgood
The case of Dr. William Hurwitz educates audiences on the complexities involved in opioid painkiller prescriptions.
Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 84 minutes
El Sicario, Room 164
The story of a hitman for the drug cartels, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Icarus Films | 2011 | 84 minutes
Excellent Cadavers
A dramatic investigation of the recent history of the Mafia and its integral relationship to postwar Italian politics. Based on the book by Alexander Stille.
First Hand Films | 2006 | 92 minutes
Fujian Blue
Two interweaving stories of youth crime and family crisis shed light on illegal emigration and human trafficking in China's Fujian province.
dGenerate Films | 2012 | 90 minutes
Glimmer of Hope
The death of a child is tragedy enough, but when the cause of death is random, brutal murder, the pain can be insurmountable.
National Film Board of Canada | 1997 | 52 minutes