Witch Hunt

A history of Salem trials

In the late 1600s, more than 150 men and women were accused of being witches. After the infamous Salem Witch Trials, 19 people were hanged for their alleged crimes, and one person was pressed to death under heavy stones. This History Channel documentary travels back to one of America's darkest times and reveals startling facts about who the real accusers were and what the community did to make restitution to the loved ones of the dead.

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lindsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, design by Tony award winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage of the national theater.

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Coven of the Midnight Son is set during the era of The Salem Witch Trials and follows the story of two lovers from opposing worlds. Etho (Romelo Urbi), an orphaned witch who lost his mother to the trials, and Lucas (Jan Luce), a rebellious human villager whose father becomes the chief of the Witch Hunts, find their love tested by their circumstances. As they confront their own familial struggles, Etho and Lucas must also face the dire consequences of their forbidden love.

After unearthing a wooden crate containing a seemingly innocuous porcelain doll in the dusty attic of the historic Warwickshire Museum, unsuspecting curator David Whittaker starts to experience unusual and hair-raising happenings. Utterly unaware of the haunted artifact's dark heritage rooting back to 1692 Salem, David, his family, and his colleagues come face-to-face with an ancient, malevolent force that craves innocent souls.

Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. When the local authorities and various inhabitants begin to believe that there are witches among them, a collective hysteria is born and spreads rapidly through the village as if it were a plague, causing a chain of tragic consequences…

Evil returns to Salem's Cove. It's up to the sheriff and his closest allies to save not only the town but the world from an evil force that hasn't been heard from since The Salem Witch Trials Ended. Unexplained evil acts have been happening since Salem's Cove was founded on the coast of North Carolina after the Salem Witch Trials. Paranormal activities has always been stopped and hidden from the general public by a secret order of defenders. The defenders greatest fears are about to be unleashed, not only to the people of Salem's Cove but to the rest of the world. Sheriff Ethan Grey and Lt. Gibbs must enlist help and reveal the truth about the towns best kept secret before it's too late.

Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?

When a detective returns to his childhood home in Salem to settle the estate of his mother, he discovers the wicked truth of his bloodline and tries to escape a house of horror.

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.

When Callie Baxter inherits her recently deceased aunt's estate, she moves to Emerson Massachusetts, a small town bordering Salem. She soon finds herself in the middle of an investigation that spans centuries. With the help of her next-door neighbor Micah, Callie must uncover what a series of missing persons in an otherwise crime-free town, the Salem Witch Trials, and her own aunt have in common.

A group of Salem Witch Trial re-enactors find themselves at the center of a modern-day witch hunt.

One night in 1972, a murder rocked a Baltimore family. Years later, Emily Topper returns to the city, seeking closure for a crime that has haunted her family over 40 years—and uncovers complex issues of race and class in the process.

Louis Theroux sets out on a personal quest to meet the ultimate pop idol - Michael Jackson - and examine the often bizarre world that surrounded him and those that worshipped at his altar. The journey began in the summer of 2002 with a simple phone call to Uri Geller - a personal friend of Jackson's - to fix a meeting for Louis. What happened next resulted in a fantastical trek into a weird world of characters who orbited around the 'King of Pop'. Majestic Magnificent, Michael's personal magician, could be the gatekeeper to a meeting or just a fraud. Would Louis, a lifelong fan of Jackson, eventually meet his hero?

The life and work of American photographer Harold Feinstein, whose work garnered critical and commercial success. In his 2015 obituary the New York Times declared him “one of the most accomplished recorders of the American experience.” Howard Greenberg says Feinstein “ occupies high ground in the pantheon of street photography” yet, most people, have never heard of him. A prodigious talent, Feinstein photographed life in all its forms, when and where he wished. Whether this was as a draftee in the Korean War, in a Bebop infused Manhattan loft or rural hippy enclave in upstate NY, Harold’s 35mm black and white photographs captured the essence of life with a with a uniquely humanist eye. The re-discovery of Feinstein’s vast and diverse body of work came in his final years and the film meets him then; in his early 80s and with a zen-like appreciation for the life he lived.

Stretching from Belgium to the Alps, designed by an army of ingenious military engineers, the Maginot Line was a network of fortified bunkers connected by high-tech tunnels and defended by relentless artillery crossfire. It was meant to be an impenetrable obstacle. And yet... it failed. What role did it really play in France's WWII campaign? How did the Nazis finally pierce through?

Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.

A portrait of the Chicago street market.