Steve Glazer

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.

Le documentariste britannique Nick Broomfield crée une suite à son documentaire de 1992 sur la tueuse en série Aileen Wuornos, une prostituée de grand chemin qui a été condamnée pour avoir tué six hommes en Floride entre 1989 et 1990. En interviewant une Wuornos de plus en plus instable mentalement, Broomfield capture l'esprit déformé d'une meurtrière que l'État de Floride juge saine d'esprit - et donc apte à exécuter. Tout au long du film, Broomfield inclut des images de son témoignage au procès de Wuornos.

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.

Cette série explore des affaires criminelles récentes et passionnantes à travers le prisme de notre système judiciaire en s'appuyant sur les témoignages de proches, de survivants, d'enquêteurs, de procureurs, d'avocats de la défense, de jurés et parfois même d'auteurs de crimes, révélant le fonctionnement de notre système judiciaire.