Docoumentary

Saturday, April 24, at 8.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

In February, 2006, 27 year-old American Eric Volz was convicted of raping and murdering his ex-girlfriend in Nicaragua. There was no evidence linking him to the crime. The state’s star witness was one of the original suspects. And cell phone records and witnesses put Volz two hours away when the crime was committed. But, Eric Volz was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in a Nicaraguan prison– a young man caught in the wrong country at the wrong time.

Sunday, April 18, at 8.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

In the late 1990s, a string of disappearances in Rockhampton, Queensland leave police searching for a killer they can’t identify. The murder of a 9-year-old girl on her way home from school blows the case wide open when ex-con Leonard Fraser is arrested and convicted for her murder. Without the evidence to connect Fraser to the other disappearances, however, police must rely on one of his fellow inmates to get the truth from Fraser.

Monday, April 12, at 8.30pm on Bio.

For nearly 30 years, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people have visited the tiny village of Abadiania to

see a man who some consider the most powerful spiritual healer since Jesus. They call him John Of God. Others

call him a charlatan. Many New Zealanders have made the journey to Brazil but recently John Of God made a trip

to New Zealand. Linelle, Chris and Kim are facing death. They have terminal illnesses and have been told they

don’t have much time left to live. Faced with this awful reality, they put their faith in the healing powers of the

Brazilian psychic healer John Of God. Will he save their lives?

Sunday, April 11, at 8.30pm on The History Channel

Day After Disaster delves into this complex and highly secretive world of disaster planning, with dynamic CGI and

3-D graphics bringing to life the chaos and heroism of the “Day After” in a gripping and cinematic fashion. The

driving force behind this special will be interviews with the people who are in position to know what would happen

if disaster were to strike the heart of one of America’s largest cities. From generals to scientists to politicians to the

average cop on the street, these are the people who must pull together and execute the plan.

Wednesday April 7 at 9.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

The potent mix of hormones, peer pressure, self-discovery and family expectations leads almost every adolescent to look in the mirror at some point and ask, ‘Who am I?’ What if though, ever since you were five-years-old you looked in the mirror every day and asked, ‘what am I, a boy or a girl?’ This is the life of a ‘Trans’ and the focus of this documentary. It is a world where confusion reigns. In short, their body appears to be one sex, while their brain says they’re the opposite sex. It’s called gender dysphoria. It’s not a fetish. It’s not a weekend hobby. It’s not a result of bad parenting or abuse. And it’s not a choice. It’s a birth condition and that is a fact that few understand. Transgender Teens tells the story of two transgender teenagers. Transgender Teens is gritty, shocking, heart wrenching, frightening, uplifting, informative, enlightening and above all, riveting.

Sunday April 4 at 6.30pm on The History Channel

He is one of the most important men to have ever walked the earth – but between the ages of 12 and 30 the whereabouts of Jesus Christ are unknown. For 2000 years, scholars and believers have debated why two decades of the life of Christ is a blank slate. The answers may be found in a most obvious source – The Bible. Found in the pages of The New Testament are clues that shed light on Christ’s life during ‘The Missing Years’ – what he thought, who he knew and how he lived.