crimes against humanity

November 13: Attack on Paris is a Netflix documentary series about the coordinated ISIS terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis, France, told through survivor and first-responder testimony.

Netflix's From Rock Star to Killer is a 3-part documentary about the 2003 fatal beating of French actress Marie Trintignant by her partner, Noir Désir frontman Bertrand Cantat.

Netflix docuseries about the murder of Heidi Paz Bulnes in Madrid and the conviction of Spanish chef César Román, known as 'the King of Cachopo,' sentenced to 15 years in 2021.

A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad is a Netflix documentary series about the German religious colony in Chile led by Paul Schäfer, responsible for decades of child sexual abuse, torture, and murder.

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the Rajneesh cult's Oregon commune, culminating in the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history and a wave of federal crimes.

The Devil Next Door is a Netflix documentary series about the war-crimes case against John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland autoworker accused of being the notorious Nazi guard 'Ivan the Terrible.'

Colonia Dignidad is a Chilean human rights mega-case involving child sexual abuse, forced disappearance, and political torture carried out inside a fortified German enclave in Parral from 1961 onward.

Between 1926 and 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency that trafficked an estimated 5,000 children to wealthy out-of-state families. Her black market operation involved kidnapping, coercion, forgery, and systematic abuse—generating over $1 million in illegal profits before state investigators closed her operation.

Mørkeland episode 342 is the second part of a special series on Belgian serial killer and paedophile Marc Dutroux, covering his accomplices, the systematic abductions, and the horrifying captivity of victims including Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo.

In the mid-1990s, Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux constructed a concealed dungeon beneath his home in Marcinelle to imprison kidnapped girls as sex slaves. Despite multiple police visits to the property while victims remained captive, the case became a landmark example of systemic investigative failure.

In August 1984, Josef Fritzl lured his 18-year-old daughter Elisabeth into the basement of their Amstetten home and imprisoned her for 24 years. During her captivity, he raped her repeatedly and fathered seven children in a windowless cellar chamber. The case remained hidden until 2008, when Elisabeth's escape exposed one of Europe's most shocking crimes.

Between 1940 and 1945, Danish resistance fighters executed approximately 400 alleged Nazi collaborators without trial. A new investigation into these killings reveals a troubling truth: only 13% of victims were actual informants. The rest died from suspicion, revenge, or political calculation.

When the United States opened Guantánamo Bay detention camp in 2002, it became the site of documented torture affecting approximately 780 men and boys from 48 countries. Over two decades later, verified interrogation techniques including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and sexual assault remain central to understanding post-9/11 American detention practices.