"High levels of homicide and other violent crime persist in Chicago in spite of every effort to address them, confounding law enforcement and elected officials and challenging the viability of violence reduction strategies. Views from the Streets offers insights into these dynamics, exploring recent transformations in the entrenched gang culture and the nature of the gang violence that plagues Chicago's communities, analyzing the shortcomings of current...

Documents the killing of elderly nun Sister Margaret Ann Pahl by Father Gerald Robinson, a popular priest who was not convicted of her murder--which had overtones of a Satanic ritual--until twenty-five years later.

A compilation of seven made-for-tv movies based on the suspense novels of Mary Higgins Clark originally produced between 2002 and 2004. The cradle will fall: The day after county prosecutor Katie undergoes medical tests with a renowned gynecologist, she is called to investigate the suicide of a pregnant woman. Katie fears a serial killer is on the loose. Her partner thinks that her doctor may be the killer. In Before I say goodbye, prominent politician...

Topper: Cosmo Topper, a shy, stuffed-shirt banker, finds his life turned upside-down by two fun-loving ghosts who enter his world to bring some fun into his life for their needed "good deed". Topper takes a trip: Marian Kirby, one of the ghosts from Topper returns into his life so she can join her husband "up there" by helping the meek banker. Topper returns: Topper turns amateur detective as the ghost of a beautiful murdered girl enlists him to try...

"The Amish community in Appleseed Creek's new bishop believes the best way to help his district in the struggling economy is to increase tourism. He invites Blue Suede Tours from Mississippi to visit the community and asks his district to host the southern visitors. The Troyer family agrees to participate in the tour with an old-fashioned milking demonstration on the family's dairy farm. But when two Mississippians die during the milk taste test,...

Documentary based on the book by Italian-American author Alexander Stille and featuring the photos of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, it chronicles the recent history of the Mafia and its integral -- and seemingly ineradicable -- relationship to postwar Italian politics. The film focuses on the events leading up to the historic anti-Mafia trials in Palermo mounted by Italian prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in the mid...

A mother fears what her daughter Rhoda has done when a boy from the daughter's class turns up dead especially since he won a medal that Rhoda felt she should have received.