Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer and Andr Ľeon Talley, this documentary reveals the rise...

Mexico is one of the most dangerous places on Earth for journalists. In the last few years more than 100 have been killed and those responsible have remained unpunished. Reports of injustice and cases of corruption or drug trafficking end up in cold-blooded murders allegedly ordered by politicians police officers and drug traffickers.

Oscar-nominated writer Douglas McGrath (Emma, Bullets Over Broadway) chronicles the story behind In Cold Blood, celebrated author Truman Capote's greatest work, a book that would bring him fame, respect and, ultimately, lead to his destruction--Infamous. Early 1960s. Capote (Toby Jones--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) travels to Kansas to research the cold-blooded murders of a local family. But what begins as an investigative journey with...

While on the way to the Nature Quiz game show, the gang hears a spooky noise in the forest that stops them in their tracks. What could it be? Then, something keeps knocking over Daisy’s precious Pinecone Pals! Maybe it’s the wind?

A three part mini-series showing the development of German industrial might throughout the 20th century and how Germany became a central foe of Western powers in the world wars that dominated the first half of 20th century life. In Episode 1 THE GREAT WAR COMES takes the viewer back to the early days of German industrial development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the development of its overwhelmingly impressive armaments industry, including...

Shortly after renting an old country house, film star Paul Henderson mysteriously disappears and Inspector Holloway (John Bennett) from Scotland Yard is called to investigate. Inquiring at the local police station, Holloway is told some of the house's history. He then contacts the estate agent (John Bryans) renting the house, who elaborates further by telling Holloway about its previous tenants.. "Method For Murder"-A hack writer of horror stories...

Based on a real story, this Dominican drama is an intriguing account of the murder of Amín Abel Hasbun, a brilliant student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of kidnapping US Embassy official, J. Crowley. Hasbun was one of many young leftists fighting against the government of Dr. Joaquín Balaguer, who favored a repressive regime. Hasbun’s death shook the sensibility of the Dominican people to the point that Balaguer had to orchestrate...

Sean Connery stars as a retired Harvard law professor who strives toprove the innocence of a young black man sentenced to death in Floridain this hard-edged, complex legal thriller.A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight yearslater, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convictedman on death row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For thesmall-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's noquestion...

Prohibition - Episode 3: A Nation of Hypocrites In the mid 1920s, an unprecedented winning streak continues on Wall Street, and it feels to many like the good times will go on forever. Americans during the Jazz Age, writes F. Scott Fitzgerald, are "a whole race gone hedonistic, deciding on pleasure." Prohibition, with its moralistic underpinnings, begins to feel anachronistic at best. In Episode 3, A Nation of Hypocrites, support for the law diminishes...