There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances? Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can prevent it.

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he mus...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...

Serial killer Stephen Port scoured dating apps to choose and target his victims. He then drugged, ra...

Sean Veil is an ultra paranoid murder suspect who takes to filming himself round the clock to provid...

Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by ...

A professional GO player gathers a team to help him carry out his revenge against the man who killed...

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the bas...

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal sys...

Documentary about serial killer Ted Bundy. This documentary asks the question whether Bundy's obsess...

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines agai...

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their a...

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassinat...

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses....

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.