Calling himself 'the Phantom', Michaels is a brazen and deluded swindler. His elaborate lies and deceptions began when he was courting his wife, with Michaels telling her he was the son of a millionaire cruise line owner and was about to inherit a fortune. That never happened, and nor did any of ...

Giovanni di Stefano was dubbed “The Devil’s Advocate” for over a decade of legal work on behalf of notorious clients such as Ian Brady, Gary Glitter, Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. His association with dozens of high-profile dependents worldwide attracted the attention of criminals and t...

Graham Briggs had his first taste of prison in 1995 when he was jailed for 14 months for stealing 55,000 pounds from a London-based Japanese catering company. This was only the beginning of the criminal journey for this serial swindler.

Born Joseph Hikairo-Barlow, the serial swindler created a complex false persona for himself, convincing people around him that he was a Tahitian Prince with a massive fortune and connections to the British royal family. Little did they know that he was actually ripping off taxpayer through an el...

For 20 years John Keady has seduced women from across Britain and Europe to America. But to dismiss this man as a serial womanizer would be a mistake; he is a callous and vicious conman who is believed to have swindled almost 1 million pounds from his supposed 'love' interests. His first victim, ...

Brian Goldie is a Scotsman with a dramatic past and a taste for international travel. At this very moment, Goldie is passing himself off in Thailand as a qualified former advocate in the High Courts of Scotland. Incredibly, he is taking money mostly from ex-pats and representing them in the Tha...

This serial swindler also has the dubious title of being Singapore's biggest ever commercial fraudster - stealing a massive S$117 million from four foreign banks. His case rocked Singapore not just for the vast amount of money he stole , but because it exposed the dark truth of what an obsession...

David Carroll is one of New Zealand's most prolific offenders of all time. He has more than 130 convictions for dishonesty offences and so far has been in and out of prison 41 times.

Born David Robin Douglas, this serial swindler is a self-styled sea lover who has actually changed his name legally in Australia to David Ocean. In reality he is a serial con artist, who has played many 'catch me if you can' roles, from lothario to surgeon, leaving a trail of heartache and destru...

"Lord" Edward Davenport a.k.a. "Fast Eddie" is a property developer and convicted fraudster. He came to prominence in the late 1980s as the organizer of the controversial Gatecrasher Balls for wealthy, usually privately educated London teenagers. After being convicted of tax offences in 1990, he...

Achilleas Kallakis was known as one of the most audacious characters in the London property market. Born into a modest family of Merseyside ship workers, he managed to amass a 250 million Sterling pounds fortune, repeatedly swindling some of Britain's biggest banks.

On the face of it, Selva Carmichael seemed every slick media mogul, promising to make stars out of Big Brother contestants Lisa Appleton and Mario Maconi as well as millionaires out of investors in his fly-on-the-wall documentary. However, this was just the latest in a spate of deceptions carried...

Michael Brown is a convicted fraudster from Scotland. Posing as a highly successful bond dealer, claiming connections with the royal family Brown swindled around 36M pounds out of his victims. He is perhaps most noted for a record 2.4M pounds donation to the Liberal Democrat Party in the run-up ...

Born in different countries yet resembling each other so much,
two women walked the path of life that was surprisingly similar.
A baby girl was born in a small rural village of Jura in France.
Her name is Colette.
Another baby was born on the outskirt of Seoul, Korea.
She is Sung-mi.
Colette and ...

In the busy world of the animal shelter, the loving bond between humans and animals is strained by the endless stream of abandoned cats, dogs, and rabbits. Pets are life companions - but for some, they are dispensable. With care and training by the passionate employees and dedicated volunteers, t...

The film reveals little-known aspects of the Nazi organization implemented in a camp hidden in Poland, SOBIBOR. SOBIBOR was not a concentration camp but a death camp. The film follows an archaeologist as he tries to understand and reconstruct the workings of the camp. The other side of his task...

On a hot August evening in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, a catastrophic explosion ripped through the city. It looked like a scene from a disaster movie, but it was real. As the shocking event unfolded, people around the city captured the moment, and its aftermath, on their phones. These videos ...

Sidik has spent the last twenty-five years searching for a Persian leopard in the genocide-scarred mountains of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. If he can capture one of these magical creatures on film, the rugged region will be declared a national park and the bombs will never fall again. Acclaimed d...

Whether it’s caused by humans or nature, our bodies are getting more and more contaminated by decades of daily pollution. Of all the toxins and heavy metals, we absorb in our lifetime, the second most toxic and deadly for humans on the periodic table chart is; mercury. With that knowledge in hand...

More than half of the Central-African forest elephant population has been decimated by poachers in the last decade. Following one of Cameroon’s first female eco-guards, a grassroots law enforcement group, a Congolese biologist, a reformed poacher and a Czech activist, this intimate portrait gains...

Six to Six is an intimate look into the night shift of one of Cape Town’s busiest mortuaries, revealing the human and often humorous side of working with the aftermath of loss. The film paints a portrait of three forensic pathology officers; Taariq, Lungi and Pierre, who spend night after night w...

A documentary exploring the muralist movement: the art of painting over breathtaking heights. Windowless gable walls were graffiti painters’ early targets, particularly in urban areas under renovation, and since 2012, monumental graffiti is in full rebirth especially in Paris’ 13th arrondissement...

If popping a pill could make you smarter, wittier and increase your memory would you take it? If you wee a surgeon working 20 hour days and you could take a pill take kept you performing brilliantly, would you? We are on the verge of a new kind of over-the-counter drug that could change fabric ...

Hundreds of thousands of women were brutally raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war. Rape is endemic on all sides of the conflict. At times extremely shocking, this film attempts to discover why rape is seen as a normal weapon of war and contains interviews with multiple soldiers w...