police brutality

The Amanda Knox Saga is a 2014 CuriosityStream documentary covering the 2007 sexual assault and murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and the trials of Knox, Sollecito, and Guede.

DRTV documentary about the 2022 quadruple homicide in Moscow, Idaho, examining how TikTok sleuths generated nearly two billion views — and fuelled dangerous false accusations.

Tragedien i Tjæreborg is a Danish TV 2 Play documentary series about the death of Lukasz Makala following a police arrest in Tjæreborg, Denmark, in March 2021.

Long Shot is a Netflix documentary about Juan Catalan, a Los Angeles man wrongly arrested for murder in 2003 and exonerated by unaired Curb Your Enthusiasm footage.

HBO documentary series about the 2011 murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips in Potsdam, NY, and the racially charged prosecution of soccer coach Oral 'Nick' Hillary, who was acquitted.

The Murder That Changed Britain is a Disney+ documentary about the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common and the wrongful accusation of Colin Stagg.

Netflix docuseries built around audio recordings of Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 boys and men between 1978 and 1991.

Grand Knighthawk is a 2023 Hulu documentary about a 2015 northern Florida KKK murder-plot against a Black former inmate, stopped by an undercover Army veteran and the FBI.

HBO Max documentary series about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles, who falsely blamed a Black man and triggered a racially charged manhunt across Boston.

A 45-minute HBO Max documentary about serial killer Stephen Port, who drugged and murdered four young gay men in East London between 2014 and 2015 using dating apps.

Pushkin Industries' new investigative podcast Valley of Shadows spans 8 episodes in which journalists Hayley Fox and Betsy Shepherd examine classified police archives and exclusive wiretap recordings to uncover what happened to a missing deputy sheriff.

The Koh Tao murders are a controversial 2014 Thai double homicide in which British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were killed on Sairee Beach, resulting in disputed convictions.

James 'Whitey' Bulger was a Boston mob boss and FBI informant convicted of racketeering and 19 murders in 2013, later killed in prison in 2018.

The Brittany Smith case is an Alabama homicide prosecution in which Brittany Smith shot and killed her husband Todd Smith in 2019, claiming self-defense after alleged domestic violence.

The Brian Steven Smith case is an Alaskan double-murder case in which a South African-born man killed Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk in 2019 and recorded one killing on his phone.

Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on February 26, 2021. Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but subsequent revelations about decades of sexual abuse committed by law enforcement officers — including an FBI agent — have cast serious doubt on that conclusion.

On May 31, 2024, a knife attack occurred at Marktplatz in Mannheim, Germany, during a demonstration by the right-wing extremist group Die Basis and pro-Palestinian activists. A 25-year-old man of Afghan origin wounded six people, including five police officers present to maintain order at the demonstration.

Between 2000 and 2007, the far-right terror group National Socialist Underground killed nine migrants and one police officer across Germany. Police suspected the victims' families instead of recognizing the obvious racist motive.

On 1 October 2020, a 51-year-old man drove his Range Rover through the pedestrian zone of Trier, Germany's oldest city, killing six people and injuring 14 others. The attacker, identified as Bernd W., was arrested without resistance at the scene. The case raised urgent questions about mental illness, alcohol abuse, and the prevention of mass violence in public spaces.

Werner Pinzner was a German contract killer convicted in 1986 of committing at least three murders in Hamburg. His case exposed the hidden criminal networks behind contract killings in 1980s West Germany, making it one of the most significant organised crime prosecutions of the era.