What’s On | DocPlay

DocPlay is host to an extensive collection of thought-provoking and interesting documentaries.

True crime is the top category this month on DocPlay and it isn’t hard to see why.

Here’s a round-up of our favourite new releases this month:

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

In 1961, Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld, died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia. Years of unlikely conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjöld, and the 15 other passengers on the plane were shot down, and now the UN has reopened the case on the suspicion of assassination

Missing or Murdered?

Follow this TV series as it revisits some of the UK’s high-profile unsolved cases. No bodies have ever been recovered, so are these much-loved sons and daughters still missing, or were they murdered?

Assassins

The murder of the brother of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in a crowded Malaysian airport sparked a worldwide media frenzy. At the center of the investigation are two young women who are either cold-blooded killers or unwitting pawns in a political assassination.

Ghosthunter

When documentary filmmaker, Ben Lawrence investigates a newspaper article about local security guard and part-time ghost hunter, Jason King – he unknowingly starts a seven-year journey into a world of haunted homes and broken souls.

The Imposter

Three and a half years after a 13-year-old boy disappeared from San Antonio, Texas, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain. Discover his story of kidnap and torture.