Countries: CA

  • Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for standing up for what he believed. Slowly, from the remote prison on South Africa’s Robben Island, he galvanized the world around his struggle to end apartheid. When Mandela was released from prison he entered a world that had been profoundly shaped by his dream. Nine Lives tells the story of Nelson Mandela through the stories of ten people that were inspired by that dream, people such as F.W. DeKlerk, former Prime Minister of South Africa and Mandela’s daughter Zindzi who continues her father’s legacy through her work with the children of South Africa.

  • Fidel Castro

    From an unknown soldier in the remote mountains of the Sierra Maestra to one of the most recognizable faces in the world, Fidel Castro has achieved the impossible. No revolutionary leader has held power for as long and had such an impact on international affairs. Many left Cuba but many more stayed. Castro has his critics but he also he has his fervent admirers. Nine Lives will tell the story of Fidel Castro through the human faces and voices of ten people whose own lives were transformed by him. It is a celebration of the legacy he has created and a chance to meet the real people who form the human side of that legacy.

  • Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. Nine Lives shows that he is also one of the most influential men of our era. This unique documentary tells the story of Muhammad Ali through the human faces and voices of ten lives that he has inspired. We hear from people like the doctor in his corner, Ferdie Pacheco and like Etan Thomas, a professional Basketball player and poet who was inspired by Ali to work for change. Each story is intercut with footage of a different landmark event in Ali’s life, and with interviews from those who were there, and those whose lives were changed.

  • MegaWorld: Germany

    Industrious and innovative, Germany is an engineering powerhouse! From resurfacing a busy airport runway in mere hours to a tractor/tank hybrid designed to safely clear landmines, the country’s top scientists, engineers, designers and inventors are leading the charge into the 21st century. See how Deutschland’s innovations are changing the world we live in. Other stories include the world’s most automated port, a transparent car factory, putting the brakes on a superfast jet, and the legendary Nurburgring racetrack.

  • Leaving Las Vegas

    Glamorous Las Vegas, Nevada is famous for wealth, lady luck and second chances. But when homicide detectives discover the charred remains of a prominent business man, Sin City reveals a darker side. With a long list of suspects and millions of dollars on the line, investigators are suddenly thrust into a dangerous world of high stakes deception fueled by passion, greed and revenge. A murder mystery where nothing is as it seems and anyone is capable of anything, only forensic science can expose the truth and catch the killer.

  • Greetings From Yahweh

    A series of bombings and bank robberies have left the usually serene city of Spokane, Washington reeling. Claiming responsibility for the reign of terror, is a deadly, almost invisible sect called the Phineas Priests who seem to strike at will. The phantom cell, driven by a perverted code of hate is considered be the most radical and dangerous in the entire white supremacist movement. Although the gunmen are masked and leave few clues, an FBI forensic photo analysis team, working with high quality bank surveillance footage, slowly starts to get a clearer picture of the assailants. The question is, can they find them before they strike again?

  • Picture Perfect

    In small-town Bartow, Florida four bodies are found slaughtered in a factory. It’s the largest mass murder in county history. Each victim is somehow connected to the factory and the family business — and each victim seems to have been executed by a professional assassin. When investigators finally zero in on a prime suspect, they are foiled by his picture-perfect alibi – security footage showing him 500 miles from the scene of the crime. With no hard evidence in sight – and with the bloodthirsty killer still on the loose – investigators turn to video forensic analysis, complex timeline reconstruction, and a most unexpected 3-year-old fingerprint.

  • Bike Path Rapist

    On September 29, 1990, the body of twenty-two year old college student, Linda Yalem, is discovered off a bike path in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. Yalem has been raped and strangled with a garrote. DNA evidence recovered from her body allows police to link the crime to six other recent rapes in the Buffalo area. But other than DNA evidence police have little to go on; the murderer remains at large. Over the next sixteen years, attacks slow but do not stop. There is another rape and two more murders. Then advances in DNA technology and clues culled from unsolved rape cases lead police to the unlikely killer and rapist. He’s Buffalo suburbanite, Altemio Sanchez. Sanchez is a pillar of the community: married, with two children, and active in church and Little League.

  • The Forsaken

    On the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario, a jogger makes a gruesome discovery – the partially mummified remains of a human body. Using state of the art forensics, police are able to identify the body as that of a suburban wife and mother of two. She has been brutally bludgeoned to death, but no missing person’s report has ever been filed. As police investigate, they discover evidence of domestic strife, including a love triangle and charges of assault. Determined to find the killer, police dig further into the victim’s life, doggedly tracking down a former lover to New York City, where they uncover another crime. But it is a forensic entomologist and her knowledge of the minute lives of insects that leads investigators back to Ontario and the arrest of the woman’s husband for murder.

  • Pyromaniac

    A series of over sixty spectacular fires rips through California’s San Joaquin valley, killing four people and devastating the landscape. An extensive investigation by the ATF, police and forensic scientists reveals a common pattern among all the blazes, and to their horror, authorities soon realize that a serial arsonist is on the loose. As they painstakingly study the evidence from each crime scene, a single fingerprint leads them to one suspect. He is John Leonard Orr, a respected arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California and one of the worst serial arsonists of the 20th century.