In the 1960s, some doctors were convinced that people were born gender neutral. Canadian doctor John Money used people in his experiments on sex change.
Street racing is an underground movement that is growing stronger. About the game that young men, with life as an effort, spend on our public roads around the country.
Per Svensson, the 35-year old man who was accused of the murder of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. Svensson talks about his uneasy experiences and feelings during the arrest, and time spent in detention.
"Teenage Boys Selling Sex" - Every day, teenage boys are turning tricks in Sweden. After school they sell their bodies and private services for a high prize to older men they met online.
When Fred and Rosemary West were arrested in the mid-1990s, an unbelievable brutal story unfolded. The Rose's house on Cromwell Street 25 in the small town of Gloucester in south-west England was given in the media the name "House of Horror" after the couple's bestial acts and perversions were revealed. When Anne Marie was eight, she became a personal slave and sex toy to her parents.
Renée Nyberg's secret meeting at an unspecified place in Europe. The sought-after financial criminal Joachim Posener talks for the first time in seven years about his involvement in the Trustor scam and describes the years of escape from justice.
Every year, 30 people disappear without a trace in Sweden. One of them is Thomas Ruzicka. What happens when someone disappears? What is the Swedish police doing and how is it handled as a relative uncertainty? In the US, 440,000 people are reported missing each year.
The 80s were one of the most colorful decades of the last century. The decade contained many important events and everything from euphoria to monumental disasters. Much we hoped not to see again. Pernilla Wahlgren was Sweden's answer to Madonna. She was innovative both in her stage performance and with her fashionable style. In her performances from 1985 and 1986, we get to see brothers Emilio and Vito Ingrosso perform in little black dainty tops. But the 80s were also the decade of the "financial puppies" and the "stock market mops". Nightclub queen Alexandra Charles talks about the jet set life with the celebrities of the time.
According to Amnesty International, the Polunsky Unit in Texas is one of the world's worst prisons. A death factory where over 400 prisoners are waiting to be executed. 45 minutes have visited the prison and met three of the convicted. They talk about why they ended up on death row and how they live their lives in anticipation of death. After 20 years in prison, the mentally disabled Troy Kunkle is finally executed by a poison injection.
The world's first female serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Nick Broomfield follows her life from the tragic upbringing to the events that transformed her from homeless and prostitute into a woman who robbed and murdered seven men in cold blood.
About man's continuous search for meaning has throughout history for various religions and beliefs. Today, there are an ocean of different groups that offer the solution to the riddle of life. Like Scientology, Jehova's Witnesses, the Kabbalah Centre, the Partride Family Temple and a large number of Pentecostal movements.
Magdalena Graaf's life was filled with humiliation, violence and terror. Every day she feared for her and her son's life. She was a refugee in her own country and was given a secret identity after a prize was placed on her head in the underworld.
Revealing reportage on the kiss-and-tell journalism of the British tabloid press, News of the World, plus the tales of legendary PR mogul Max Clifford.
"Not Guilty?" - Since 1990, no less than eleven people in Sweden have been wrongfully imprisoned for serious crimes. 45 minutes has met with three people who have been detained for a long time. No one has been innocently sentenced in a Swedish prison for as long as Joy Rahman.
To openly show one's sexual orientation is natural for most people, but sometimes it can become a death sentence. One of the victims of the hatred of homosexuals is journalist Facundo Unia, who was badly beaten in connection with the Pride festival 2003 and was close to dying.
"World Famous in No Time" - on Manhattan, NYC, we meet some girls whose longing for luxury and glamour has become so great that they have prostituted themselves.
