Great Crimes and Trials

tv show

poster for Great Crimes and Trials

78 total episodes

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3 seasons

First Aired November 02, 1993

Overview

Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell. In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.

Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood poster unavailable

Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood

Season 2 - Episode 10 - 1h 30m

Air Date

June 03, 1996

Overview

In April 1943, Berlin announced that the bodies of 3,000 Polish officers had been found murdered by the Soviets at Katyn Wood. Stalin indignantly denied the accusation, even though all documents on the bodies stopped in 1940 when the men had been in Soviet hands. Only recently did the full truth of who was responsible come out.