Hatred and Homophobia in the Heartland of America (Brandon Teena) - True Story True Story Documentary Channel 2018-10-30 | The Brandon Teena Story is a documentary about hatred and homophobia in the heartland of America. The film focuses on the last few weeks of Brandon Teena’s life in a small town in Nebraska. When 20 year old Brandon arrived in rural Fall City, Nebraska in late 1993, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends and a pretty young girlfriend.On Christmas Eve Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of his friends who became enraged when they found out that Brandon was in fact a woman passing as a guy. A week later, on New Year’s Eve, the same men murdered Brandon along with two of his friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip Devine. All were shot twice at a close range and Brandon was stabbed several times as well.The far-reaching effects of ingrained homophobia and misguided loyalty under a veneer of revealing the truth, and how this led to Brandon’s destruction are unravelled in this film.
The Twenty-Year Experiment: Nation Building in Afghanistan | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-19 | ´You have the watches, we have the time´ a Taliban commander infamously warned an American in 2002 Afghanistan. It was ominously accurate. Months earlier, America had swiftly ousted a flailing Taliban government, pledging to rebuild the embattled country and for two decades, foreign armies poured into Afghanistan along with eye-watering amounts of foreign aid funding. Yet now the Taliban is back in charge of the entire country. So what went wrong? The Watch Or The Time explores America and its allies’ ill-fated offensive in Afghanistan told by the foreigners and Afghans who lived it. The film tracks the arc of America’s longest war in modern history with these personal experiences, looking at the pitfalls of military intervention, nation-building, humanitarian aid and the culture clash through the legacy of the West’s efforts in Afghanistan.
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-18 | Ahmaud Arbery was jogging when three white men, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan, assumed he was a burglar, chased him down, and shot him multiple times. Cellphone video captured by Arbery’s assailants proved to the jury that these men were not the heroes they claimed to be. This episode examines the murder case, trial proceedings, and the fight for justice for Ahmaud, as the men were found guilty in his murder.
The Prosecution of Alec Baldwin | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-18 | Are actors liable for prop gun safety?
Lisa Marie Presley | Fortune Fights 10/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-15 | Lisa Marie Presley was born into rock and roll royalty, as the only daughter to hip shaking legend Elvis Presley. But when the king’s daughter inherited her father’s fortune at just 25-years-old, no one could have predicted the messy legal battles that would be fought over his financial legacy.
Sonny Bono | Fortune Fights 9/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-14 | Known as one half of the celebrated singing duo Sonny & Cher, Sonny Bono lead a rollercoaster of a life that included success in the music industry, the restaurant business and politics. But after his untimely death in 1998, the battle over his personal fortune took a very public and ugly turn.
Robin Williams | Fortune Fights 8/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-13 | Robin Williams was a brilliant standup and one of the most successful actors of his generation. During his decades in the business, Williams enjoyed massive success, but expensive divorces took a toll. And even the best estate planning couldn’t prevent a fight over his 100-million-dollar fortune after his death.
Madonna | Fortune Fights 7/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-12 | Madonna's career as a singer, songwriter and actress spans decades. Since she danced onto the scene in the 1980s, The Queen of Pop has earned hundreds of millions of dollars by reinventing herself time and time again. She pushed the boundaries in her career and her personal life, but neglected to protect her vast fortune and found herself in legal hell, losing millions when her marriage didn’t work out.
Britney Spears | Fortune Fights 6/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-11 | More than 20 years into her career, Britney Spears remains one of the most popular female artists of all time. By the time she was 21-years-old, Britney evolved from a squeaky-clean Disney Mouseketeer to a slinky vixen, an image she parlayed into immense financial success. But with Britney’s superstar status came mega legal battles. A divorce, messy child custody dispute, and very public meltdown ended with a dramatic family intervention that saved her, and her empire, from herself.
Harrison Ford | Fortune Fights 5/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-10 | Harrison Ford's career spans six decades, and his movie grosses surpass six billion dollars, making him one of the most bankable stars of all time and earning him a skyrocketing paycheck. But the high life doesn't come cheap, and when Ford found himself in a very bitter and public divorce with no prenup, things went downhill. We look at the financial and personal highs and lows of one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men.
Hulk Hogan | Fortune Fights 4/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-09 | For over 30 years, wrestling icon Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea packed arenas, rallied a legion of fans, and slammed Hulkamania down on his opponents with a force felt around the world. Hogan became the face of the World Wrestling Federation in the ‘80s and their highest earner, reportedly making 10 million dollars per year at his Hulkamania peak. But it all came crashing down when he found himself entrenched in a public sex scandal that ultimately led to a multi-layered fortune fight and a Battle Royale over the Constitution.
Donald Sterling | Fortune Fights 3/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-08 | Known as "The West Coast Donald Trump", Donald Sterling rose from California divorce attorney to billionaire real estate mogul before acquiring the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. But a racist rant, scorned mistress and accusations of mental frailty brought it all crashing down and forced the sale of his basketball team for a record price negotiated by his wife, Shelly, that completely froze him out.
Casey Kasem | Fortune Fights 2/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-07 | At the height of his popularity, radio icon Casey Kasem’s dulcet tones reached nearly 10 million listeners per week. After hosting one of the country’s most popular radio countdown shows for nearly 40 years, the broadcasting legend had earned his retirement and an estimated net worth of 80 million dollars. His massive fortune would set the stage for a bitter and bizarre family battle during the beloved disc jockey’s final years.
Johnny Depp | Fortune Fights 1/10 | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-06 | In his decades as a movie star, Johnny Depp has earned hundreds of millions of dollars playing rogue pirates, loveable oddballs and handsome heartthrobs. But uncontrollable spending, legal battles and an ugly divorce has left him fighting over his fortune. After getting bruised in the press, Depp found himself in legal battle after legal battle, scrambling to get his finances under control.
Chaos in Kenosha | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-05 | Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two people and maimed a third during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The 17-year-old, armed with an AR-15, claimed he acted in self-defense because he feared for his life.
A Clown at the Door | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-10-05 | In 1990, Marlene Warren was shot and killed by a clown at her door carrying balloons and a basket of flowers. Even though police suspected Warren’s ex-husband and his then-girlfriend, it took 27 years for authorities to catch her killer
The Snake Farm Murder | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-29 | Lynlee Renick claims she has no idea who shot and killed 29-year-old Ben Renick, a world-renowned snake breeder and father of two. After four years of twists, turns and secrets revealed, Lynlee Renick goes to trial.
Johnny Depp v Amber Heard | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-29 | Hollywood star Johnny Depp’s career suffered after his ex-wife Amber Heard wrote an op-ed claiming to be a victim of sexual violence. What followed was a civil trial that captured the attention of the public as Depp and Heard exposed their tumultuous relationship in front of the jury and the world.
She’s not a lesbian | Islas Way | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-22 | Cowboy. Rebel. Survivor. Grandmother. Formidable grandmother Isla Roberts insists that although she’s not a lesbian, her girlfriend of 40 years is. In this tender, richly humorous portrait, we learn what makes an ordinary life extraordinary. Straight-shooting Isla’s lived experience of rural Australia and coming out later in life, make for a poignant documentary of a woman who’s well ahead of her time. The film follows Isla over one eventful, cathartic year.
Medical Mystery | Someone They Knew 110 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-21 | Rosemarie Essa appeared to have died in a car crash. But when police learn this was no more than a low speed fender-bender, they begin to suspect foul play-by someone who knew what they were doing.
Home Alone? | Someone They Knew 109 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-20 | After a work party went late, Ramona Krotine decided it was time to call it a night. But she never made it home-or did she?
Fortunate Son | Someone They Knew 108 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-19 | The night began with a birthday celebration for Susan Sutton. It ended with a nightmare when a man broke in and opened fire, killing Susan and blinding her husband, John.
Deadly Letter | Someone They Knew 107 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-18 | What begins as another sun-soaked day in Boca Raton, ends in blood-soaked violence, leaving a mother of three a quadriplegic.
The Puppetmaster | Someone They Knew 106 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-17 | When a well-respected psychiatrist and his adult son are killed as they sleep, police are baffled by the apparent randomness-until an arrest in an unrelated crime leads them to the least likely of suspects.
And Murder Makes Three | Someone They Knew 105 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-16 | Small-town plumber John Cataneo fixed other people's homes for a living, until death came knocking on his front door.
Mans Best Friend | Someone They Knew 104 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-15 | When the body of 22 year old Misty Morse is found floating in the Indian River, police suspect one of her many boyfriends.
Deadly Delivery | Someone They Knew 103 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-14 | Lita McClinton thought the man who came to her door was just delivering a dozen pink roses. Instead, he delivered death. But who was this delivery guy, and who sent him?
Who Shot The Sheriff? | Someone They Knew 102 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-13 | Who shot the new sheriff of Dekalb County? When Derwin Brown was gunned down shortly after winning his election, investigators thought it might have been a political assassination.
Too Close To The Sun | Someone They Knew 101 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-13 | Successful Atlanta entrepreneur Lance Herndon usually got what he wanted.
Challenge the evils of Nazism and antisemitism | Holy Silence | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-09 | As World War II looms on the horizon, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and antisemitism. But death intervenes, and a new pope, Pius XII, carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust. HOLY SILENCE tells the dramatic story of the Vatican's actions – and inactions – during World War II and finally reveals the truth about “Hitler’s Pope”, Pius XII, accused of being a Nazi sympathiser.
Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-07 | At a time when the 24-hour news cycle reaches far beyond print and an endless amount of information is accessible with the click of a mouse, how can the average person learn to separate fact from fiction? And what does this mean for our democracy if we cannot grasp this important skill?
I Got A Monster: America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad | True Story Documentary Channel True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-07 | Retells in highly dramatic fashion one of the USA’s biggest police corruption scandals. In 2017, Baltimore was rocked by the Federal indictment of Wayne Jenkins, a highly decorated super-cop and leader of the Baltimore Police Department’s elite Gun Trace Task Force along with six other members on racketeering charges. In a city plagued by racial tension and violence, plain-clothes detectives from the Gun Trace Task Force had been celebrated for holding the Thin Blue Line, but in fact were terrorizing Baltimore’s Black community. These dirty cops were stealing and reselling millions of dollars of drugs while brazenly planting evidence and falsifying police reports. However, they didn’t plan for a campaigning defense attorney or a secret FBI wiretap operation to end their crime spree and expose decades of criminality inside the police department.
The Case Against Bryan Kohberger | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-03 | Explores the mounting evidence against the former Ph.D. student accused of the grisly murders of four University of Idaho students ahead of his trial.
Christmas Parade Rampage | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-02 | Waukesha’s annual Christmas Parade is struck by tragedy when Darrel Brooks drives his SUV through the parade route.
Movie Popcorn Murder | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-09-01 | A Sunday afternoon movie date turns deadly when a confrontation over a cell phone and a bag of popcorn ends with a gunshot.
Doomsday Cult Mom Murder | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-31 | When Lori Vallow’s children go missing, she heads to Hawaii to marry cult leader Chad Daybell leaving behind a wake of destruction, which includes several dead bodies.
Murdaugh Family Murders | Victim to Verdict | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-30 | Once prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s life begins to unravel after the murder of his wife Maggie and youngest son Paul.
Judgment of Scott Nelson | Judgment 10/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-29 | Living on her own since she was a teenager, Aileen Wuornos sold her body to survive and along the way generated a deep-seeded rage for those who would pay for her services.
Judgment of Aileen Wuornos | Judgment 9/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-28 | Living on her own since she was a teenager, Aileen Wuornos sold her body to survive and along the way generated a deep-seeded rage for those who would pay for her services.
Judgment of The Murder-For-Hire Masquerade | Judgment 8/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-27 | Scott Amendure thought the Jenny Jones Show was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him.
Judgment of Amber Guyger | Judgment 7/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-26 | Shots rang out when off-duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger found Botham Jean in her apartment. Except it wasn’t her apartment.
Judgment of The Hit-And-Run Murder | Judgment 6/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-25 | While under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Chante Mallard struck pedestrian Gregory Biggs with her car, impaling him in the windshield.
Judgment of The Insurance Money Murder | Judgment 5/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-24 | Ten years after being found guilty of the murder of her husband, Susie Mowbray’s conviction was overturned, and she would once again face a jury of her peers.
Judgment of OJ Simpson | Judgment 4/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-23 | Years after being found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson was back in a courtroom and again facing felony charges.
Judgment of The Hammer Murder | Judgment 3/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-22 | Nancy Seaman never denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet.
Judgment of Jodi Arias | Judgment 2/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-21 | The discovery of Travis Alexander’s body, riddled with stab wounds, his throat slit and shot in the back of the head, shocked his friends and family.
Casey Anthony | Judgment 1/48 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-21 | The mystery surrounding the death of little Caylee Anthony gripped the nation. Was she the victim of her neglectful, party-girl mother Casey, or was a darker family secret to blame? The only thing more shocking than the testimony was the verdict itself.
Der Fall Alfred Petit | Zeitdruck am Tatort 101 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-20 | Im Mai 2001 brennt in einem Dorf in der Normandie eine Scheune.
Der Fall Anaïs Guillaume | Täterjagd 609 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-19 | Im April 2013 verlässt die 21jährige Anaïs Guillaume das Haus ihrer Eltern. „Bin gleich wieder da!“ ruft sie ihnen zu.
Der Fall Frédéric Butanowicz | Täterjagd 608 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-19 | Im November 2011 entdecken Arbeiter auf einem Friedhof in Courcelles-le-Comte eine Leiche. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Mann ermordet wurde.
Der Fall Isabelle Moser | Täterjagd 607 | True Crime True Story Documentary Channel 2024-08-19 | September 2013: Éric Mosser entdeckt die übel zugerichtete Leiche seiner Frau Isabelle. Sie starb durch acht Messerstiche. Hatte sie einen Einbrecher überrascht?
