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Gosford Park

What starts out as a typical country party at Gosford Park turns into something more sinister when one of the guests turns up dead. Includes commentaries, deleted scenes, production featurette, and other special features.

A gathering of old men

When Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

Crime and punishment

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.

Touch of evil

An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.

Coach Carter

Shaft ; Rules of engagement
Coach Carter: Former Richmond High School basketball star Ken Carter returns to his alma mater as their coach and immediately sets down high standards of accountability that are soon challenged by the players, the school, and the community.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & punishment

a graphic novel
A graphic adaptation of the Russian novel, here set in twenty-first-century St. Petersburg, in which Raskolnikov murders a woman and is consumed by guilt.

Only twice I've wished for heaven

a novel
Relates the experiences of a variety of African-Americans some wealthy and some poor living in Chicago discussing their adventures, hopes, and fears.

Searching for answers

Karen becomes terrified when Will cannot stop thinking of Mike's murder.

Homicide

Explains how a homicide is investigated, covering the crime scene, the forensic team, bloodstains, fingerprints, DNA, and more.

Cold cases

Explains that old unsolved crimes called cold cases are kept on file, but when new evidence or new crime-science techniques become available these cold cases are reopened, and describes techniques that can be used including bloodstain analysis, ballistics, forensic document analysis, DNA analysis, and more.

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