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In Australia, there are over 40,000 men and women currently behind bars. Many of them have done very bad things. They have shattered countless lives, destroyed families and been responsible for unspeakable criminal acts. What did they do? How did they get here? And what are their lives like now?
In the 1990s coastal city of Kungang, young auto repair genius Tang Shi goes undercover in a smuggling ring to clear his father’s name. Partnering with the spirited Ye Ling, they work together to help the police uncover a major smuggling operation.
December 4, 1994 has been called the night when Stockholm's nightlife lost its innocence. At 5 o'clock in the morning, someone with an automatic weapon shoots straight into the entrance of the Sturecompagniet nightclub in central Stockholm. Four young people die and around 20 are seriously injured. The perpetrators, who were previously denied entry to the club, have come back for revenge. This year marks 30 years since the brutal shooting. Victims, witnesses, police, media and relatives talk about the event that left an indelible mark. What happened afterward?
A woman diagnosed with alexithymia, a mental condition stopping her from feeling emotions, refuses to accept her sister died by suicide. Now, she embarks on her own investigation in parallel to the police’s official one.
A Japanese television jidaigeki that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel of the same title and stars Tsutomu Yamazaki. In the Kyōhō period, there was a group of bandits called Kumokiri from the people of Edo. Tokugawa shogunate appoints Abe Shikibu a head post of the Hitsuke Tōzoku Aratamegata to arrest Kumokiri clan.
Middle-aged forensic pathologists Zhang Han and Luo Xiao, along with young experts Ke Hao and Zhao Yiran, and seasoned professionals Dong Mingjian and Zhao Yue, confront societal issues and the complexities of human nature. Together, they are dedicated to honoring the deceased and upholding legal equality, revealing individual pain and exposing the true soul of the community through their work.
Francisco de Assis Pereira's crimes are revisited from the perspective of the victims, new reports from investigators and unpublished audio recordings from one of Brazil's most infamous serial killers, known as the Park Maniac.