The Fremantle Corporation

Gritty Documentaries

Stories of Assassins

Time: 
60 Minutes

Since he’s been 13 years old, James has done what he calls “the art of killing” for a living. At age 26, he has a record of 18 victims; this boy who was born in Medellin, Colombia, obtained a visa to go to Spain and became part of one of the paid killers’ offices that exist in Europe 5 years ago.

 

Kidnapping Inc.

Time: 
27 Minutes

"Dad, I want to get our of here" - These are the last words that Juan Carlos heard his 8 year old son say in the video that the kidnappers sent to pressure him. In Colombia, more then 400 foreign and local families receive this type of video. This documentary goes deep into this reality through exclusive family documents, police operations and interviews with kidnappers and victims, including Ingrid Betancourt.

 

John Holmes

Time: 
74 Minutes
Producer: 
Westlake

The MAN, the MYTH, the LEGEND.

The John Holmes Story documents the tragic life and career of arguably the most famous porn actor in history, John Holmes. The film follows his meteoric rise to fame in the world of pornography, charts his drug-addictions, and offers details about his involvement in the infamous Wonderland Murders before ending with his death from AIDS.

 

American Assassin

Time: 
90 Minutes
Producer: 
Insight Films
Availability: 
Worldwide excluding U.S.

In 1959 at the height of the Cold War, a 19 year old American marine defects to the Soviet Union and disappears behind the Iron Curtain. He would not only be America’s most famous defector, but its most infamous assassin. Lee Harvey Oswald is now one of the most well known and controversial names of the century. Few people are aware of Oswald’s years in Cold War Minsk - how he got there, how he acted, and why he left. For the first time we can look at Oswald’s character from a new perspective - the Russian perspective, to see if Lee could indeed have acted alone in Dallas, Texas.