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Documentary series focusing on history's largest financial crimes ranging from Ponzi schemes, murder, card counting, generating fake currency and goods, extortion, online dating, identity theft, drug distribution, and insider trading.

Cold Case Files shows how timing, persistence and high-tech police work combine to catch people who have slipped through the cracks for decades.

The true story of an 11 year old girl kidnapped and the abuse she survived. Her desire to survive and reunite with her family over 18 plus years is amazing and how she eventually escaped.

When night falls and the human kids from Freemont Elementary have all gone home,wacky monsters creep out for their own slapstick adventures. Together, vampire,goblin, zombie, Frankenstein and mischievous ghost share a common bond.

Anchored by Bill Kurtis, Investigative Reports is one of the most controversial, news-driven documentaries on television today. This award-winning series is the longest-running show of its kind and dives head-first into murky contemporary issues without apology or compromise.

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

White-collar crime can destroy companies, cost investors billions, devastate families and wipe out a person's entire life savings. CNBC's new series "American Greed: The Fugitives" goes inside the world of active white-collar crime cases, telling never-before-heard stories. Each episode features interviews with law enforcement, prosecutors, and investor-victims, all sharing the goal of bringing these fugitives to face justice. Investment schemes are more sophisticated than ever before and the accused con-artists who orchestrate these scams use every tool at their disposal to dupe investors and evade capture. "American Greed: The Fugitives" takes viewers on the hunt to catch the most wanted white-collar fugitives.

Deadly Rich takes viewers inside the lives and deaths of the one percent, exposing the dirty little secrets of how big money drives people to the ultimate sin.

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Escaped features individuals who have been held captive, kidnapped, or battled extreme elements and lived to detail their incredible escapes. Each story of Escaped is told through the eyes of the person who lived through the nightmare.

When a man is wrongly convicted of murder and rape, his wife devotes her life to proving his innocence. Conviction is not only a gripping story of justice gone wrong, it's also a meditation on the role of luck in the criminal justice system. In order for Clarence Elkins to prove his innocence, all of the stars had to align. It's a story that would be unbelievable if it weren't true.

Easy Scores. Outragous Paydays. Picture Perfect Crimes. "Crime Inc." takes you inside the billion-dollar big business behind global criminal enterprise.

Legend has it that Genghis Khan, the greatest warrior who ever lived, is buried in a hidden location with his plundered treasure: gold and silver from the lands of Islam, the Caliph of Baghdad's private vaults, and art and textiles from the great cities of the Middle Ages. Join a team of explorers across the steppes of Mongolia on their adventurous quest to unearth one of the world's greatest mysteries.

The segments aired under "American Greed: Biggest Cons" are previously-shown "American Greed" segments that were grouped together under this title. Examples that are shown under this name are the "American Greed" segments on Eric Conn and his massive Social Security fraud; The Billionaire Boys Bust with con man John Bravata; Bernie Madoff Behind Bars; and The Real Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort. Indeed, these men all pulled off massive cons.

Go behind-the-scenes at the crown jewel of horse racing, the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, for an inside look at the multi-billion dollar industry. You'll see the sport's greatest successes, biggest misses and the resulting challenges... and how even in this tough economy, Thoroughbreds are big business. Hosted by CNBC's Melissa Francis.