political assassination

Who Killed Malcolm X? is a Netflix documentary series investigating the 1965 murder of civil-rights leader Malcolm X at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom and whether the men convicted were truly guilty.

The Assassination & Mrs. Paine is a 2022 documentary about the JFK assassination and Ruth Paine, the woman whose Irving, Texas home connected her to Lee Harvey Oswald. Available on Apple TV.

Lockerbie is a 2023 Sky documentary series about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988 — Britain's deadliest terror attack.

Don't Pick Up the Phone is a Netflix documentary series about the decade-long strip-search phone hoax that targeted fast-food restaurants across the U.S., with the 2004 McDonald's case in Mount Washington, Kentucky as its most notorious incident.

Danish documentary series on DRTV about the 1978 umbrella murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London and the Danish-Italian spy Francesco Gullino suspected of carrying it out.

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, chairman of the Treuhand agency, was killed by RAF terrorists at his home in Düsseldorf on 1 April 1991. The assassination was the most high-profile terrorist attack in Germany in decades. His murder was never fully solved.

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.

On 20 December 2024, a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia drove a car into the crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The attack killed 6 people and injured around 300 others. The suspect was arrested at the scene and had been working as a psychiatrist in Germany.

On December 7, 2022, German police carried out one of the country's largest coordinated raid operations in recent memory, arresting 25 people suspected of plotting a violent coup against the German state under the name Patriotische Union.

On August 23, 2019, Chechen dissident Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot and killed in Berlin's Tiergarten. A German court later established that the Russian state was responsible for the murder.

On October 9, 2019, Stephan Balliet, a 27-year-old German right-wing extremist, attacked a synagogue and kebab restaurant in Halle an der Saale with the aim of killing as many people as possible. The attack was stopped by police, but resulted in two deaths and several wounded.

On 29 May 1993, four young men from Germany's far-right extremist scene set fire to the home of the Turkish-German Genç family in Solingen, Germany. Five people — women and girls — were killed and several others were injured. The four perpetrators were convicted of arson and murder.

On 26 September 1980, a bomb exploded at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, killing 13 people and wounding more than 200. The device was detonated at the entrance to the Theresienwiese fairgrounds during the festival's peak evening hours. The attacker's identity was established but his full network and motives were never officially resolved, with investigations pointing toward far-right extremist circles.

On May 30, 2024, a Manhattan jury found Donald J. Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Perched 400 feet above the Mulde River in eastern Saxony, Colditz Castle housed some of World War II's most determined escape artists. Between 1939 and 1945, over 130 prisoners attempted to flee the supposedly inescapable fortress, with dozens succeeding against overwhelming odds.

On March 30, 1981, outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, a 25-year-old man fired six shots at President Ronald Reagan. The assassination attempt wounded the president and three others, and set in motion events that would reshape U.S. law and national security policy.

In the 1980s, senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to Iran and diverted the proceeds to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, violating congressional bans and presidential public policy. The scandal, exposed in November 1986, triggered a constitutional confrontation over executive power and accountability.

Between August 1991 and January 1992, John Wolfgang Ausonius carried out a series of shooting attacks across Stockholm and Uppsala that left one dead and ten seriously injured. Known as Lasermannen—the Laser Man—the Swedish gunman deliberately targeted immigrants, sparking one of the country's largest manhunts since the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme.

Pablo Escobar, born December 1, 1949, in Rionegro, Colombia, built a $30 billion cocaine empire as head of the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s. His narcoterrorism campaign—enforced through his infamous "plata o plomo" (money or lead) policy—left over 5,000 dead before Colombian authorities killed him on a Medellín rooftop on December 2, 1993.

On 20 December 2004, £26.5 million in cash disappeared from Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast after armed gang members took bank employees' families hostage. Despite decades of investigation and intelligence pointing to IRA involvement, no criminal conviction has ever been secured for the robbery itself.