Serial criminals wield a particular brand of terror. Playing a kind of sinister game, they seem to taunt their pursuers, gaining confidence with each crime that goes undetected. Fortunately for us, scientific sleuths are on their trail, armed with state-of-the-art techniques for scrutinizing crime-scene evidence and sketching what is often an astonishingly accurate personality profile of the ...

Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
Starring: Nova - The Science of Crime

Manufacturer: Allumination
Starring: Court TV-Crime Stories

Manufacturer: Shanachie Video
Starring: David Ogden Stiers

Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: ABC News

He is the most famous and fabled mobster of his era. But the "teflon Don" was done in by the betrayal of those who served him, and may well be the last of his breed. John Gotti climbed out of humble Bronx beginnings on a ladder of success, leaving a body behind on every rung. Once near the top, he eliminated rival Paul Castellano and assumed control of the nation's most powerful crime ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Dave Hoffman, Bill Mumy

Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar made this penetrating documentary about the career and views of linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky. While the man is the subject of the movie, the filmmakers wisely and carefully choose not to make Chomsky more important than his insights into the way print and electronic journalism tacitly and often willingly further the agendas of the powerful. We learn a lot ...

Manufacturer: Zeitgeist Video
Starring: William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Kelvin Flook, Edward S. Herman, Peter Jennings
Directed By: Peter Wintonick

Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea

Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Edward Asner, Numa V. Bertel Jr., Madeleine Brown, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite
Directed By: Barbara Kopple, Danny Schechter

Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: James E. Files, Confession of an Assassin

Follow the FBI's psychological detectives as they race against time to penetrate the mind of a serial killer, and stop him from striking again.

Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
Starring: Nova