America Undercover

A documentary examining an abused child, featuring footage from actual therapy tapes and interviews with the child's adoptive parents and her therapist.

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that features one of the most vivid and disturbing interviews ever recorded--taped behind the walls of the prison where Kuklinski is serving two consecutive life sentences for multiple homicide.

They're the real "goodfellas": "Joe Dogs" Iannuzzi, Tommy DelGiorno, "Big Dom" Lofaro. For the first time on television, Mafia turncoats give personal accounts of life inside the Mob. In this shocking documentary, five high-ranking informants tell tales of murder, brutality, greed and vanity--and why they broke the Sicilian code of honor.

America Undercover goes to Little Rock, Arkansas, to look at the tension filled lives of rival street gangs. Both white and black teenage gang members discuss lives of crime and violence and speak candidly about murder and gang retaliation. They also tell tales of hopelessness, alienation, and abuse at home which led them to seek family on the streets with their peers.

They each committed cold-blooded acts of murder that could have put them behind bars for years, maybe decades. However, for three Oregon teenagers, a controversial therapy program offers the promise of rehabilitation -- and early release from prison. If successful, this "second chance" program could help straighten out troubled kids and enable them to become productive members of society. But is the potential threat to society worth the risk? The America Undercover documentary TEEN KILLERS: A SECOND CHANCE? examines all sides of this explosive issue when it debuts TUESDAY, NOV. 3 (9:45-10:30 p.m. ET), exclusively on HBO.

Profoundly wrenching, HBO's Fatal Twisters: A Season of Fury brings home the agony of tornado devastation once again. After stops in Birmingham, Ala., and Jarrell, Texas, the hour documentary turns to the February 1998 tornadoes in Central Florida. It wants you to feel, and that makes for difficult, unsettling television. Fatal Twisters tests your threshold for pain.

Persona Non Grata was a documentary produced by Oliver Stone in 2003 about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. It includes interviews with Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, Yasser Arafat, late former President of the Palestinian National Authority, and various Palestinian activists.

Oliver Stone's second documentary on/interview with Fidel Castro specifically addresses his country's recent crackdown on Cuban dissidents; namely, the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry to the United States.