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S1 : E3
TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 07.28.99
A frenzy of investment surrounded the Windfall Mines Company in the 1950s. The owners, George ad Viola McMillan, seemed to be sitting on a fortune. Yet very little information about the contents of the mines was getting out, only speculation. When it was proved that the mine was empty and the scam had caused thousands of investors to lose millions, Viola McMillan was put behind bars. Such disasters were never to take place again. In the 1990s, rumoured gold in the Indonesian hills created instant millionaires until the truth appeared and billions of dollars were lost. Now it is Bre-X that has changed the mining world forever.
Resurrection In L.A.
S1 : E1 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Aimee Semple McPherson mixed show business and religion. She became the first populist evangelist to use the media to reach the masses. By 1925, she was filling stadiums with her followers and owned h...
Silenced Star
S1 : E2 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle was a star, as famous in his day as Charlie Chaplin. In 1921 he signed a $ 3 million contract with Paramount Pictures. After a debauched party in his home a starlet is found dead...
Unspoken Lies
S1 : E3 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 07.28.99
A frenzy of investment surrounded the Windfall Mines Company in the 1950s. The owners, George ad Viola McMillan, seemed to be sitting on a fortune. Yet very little information about the contents of th...
Brothers In Blood
S1 : E4 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Leopold and Loeb, two highly educated young men from American high society, decided to pull off the perfect crime. Fearless of being caught, they believed the rules of ordinary morality did not apply...
Southern Knights
S1 : E5 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Atlanta Georgia, 1913. The body of 14-year-old Mary Phagan is found in the National Pencil Company factory. She had been beaten, raped and strangled to death. Leo Frank, the Jewish 29 year-old part ow...
Crossing The White Line
S1 : E6 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 07.28.99
Jack Johnson, the first black World Boxing Champion brought a sport back to life and racial hatred to light. Johnson fought the first Fight of the Century in 1910. His victory carried over the radio,...
Scandal! Then and Now explores the most shocking crimes of the 20th century from botched publicity stunts to headline-making murders.
Simcha Jacobovici, Tim Wolochatiuk