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Crimes That Shook Great Britain (2008)

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Original title
Crimes That Shook Britain
Genre
crime, documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Length
9 seasons, 56 episodes
Rated
12
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series looks at infamous British crimes that made national headlines. It uses interviews with police and families alongside drama reconstructions to tell what happened.

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What happens

Crimes That Shook Britain is a television series first aired in 2008 on Crime & Investigation UK, focusing on uncovering the truth behind crimes that shocked the nation. Some episodes were also rebroadcast in random episode order from 2014 to 2019, on Channel 5 originally under the title Britain's Worst Crimes. Through drama reconstructions, witness accounts, interviews with police and the victims families, the series explores some of Britain's most infamous cases and murderers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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