Daring Capers: True Crime Stories Set 1

History Documentary hosted by Charlie Glaze, published by Discovery Channel in 1999 - English narration



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Money. Some people have it; others plot to take it.
From the narrow streets of Nice to the gleaning corridors of Wall Street, DARING CAPERS tracks some of the world's most fascinating criminals and their audacious crimes. Here's a rogue's gallery of bank robbers, art thieves, and debonair con artists who tried to steal their way to wealth through brilliant ploys and slick transactions. Their methods may amuse, their exploits may amaze, but their determination to make an easy buck is no laughing matter!
These are the stories of some of the most outlandish and unlawful get-rich-quick schemes ever exposed. Some were even successful. At least so far.
Tunnel under the streets of Nice, France with international thief Albert Spaggiari to relieve a bank of it's assets; escape with S8 million in cash, gems and gold from the Lufthansa Air Cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport; and slip into the world's finest homes with legendary cat burglar Blane David Nordahl, leaving with only the best pieces of silver. These daring felons have vastly different styles, but each shares a genius for larceny and a brash disrespect for the law.
The high-rise burglar, the daring jewel thief, the tunneling bank robbers, the Italian playboy who is more than he appears and the 'Queen of Jewels' whose exploits baffled her pursuers; these are just a few of the rogues you'll meet in this amazing, amusing and entertaining collection of world-class criminals!
Through dramatizations, news footage and interviews with witnesses and law enforcement officials, DARING CAPERS: TRUE CRIME STORIES takes you down the moral low road into the enticingly dangerous, devilish world of the criminal in 20 edge-of-your-seat episodes, originally aired on TLC, The Learning Channel.

Produced by New Dominion Pictures for TLC

8)  The Great Train Robbery
A gang of fifteen of England's greatest thieves stops the Royal mail train and make off with 120 bags of mail containing an estimated S5 million in untraceable bills. It was the biggest train robbery in British history. In the early morning of August 8, the robbers rigged a false red signal light near a section of track called Sears Crossing. When the locomotive stopped at the light, more than a dozen men in ski masks appeared, beat the driver with a metal rod and uncoupled most of the cars. After forcing the driver to move the remaining cars to a rendezvous point a mile up the track, the thieves formed a human chain and quickly transferred 120 bags of money into three waiting vehicles. They acted on an inside tip: the trains real cargo was a large, untraceable shipment of old, unmarked bills to be removed from circulation. The bandits made off with an estimated S5 million. After escaping the scene, the robbers hid out for several days in a nearby farmhouse, where they celebrated by playing Monopoly with their two-and-a-half tons of stolen cash. Spooked by the high police presence in the area, the men eventually divided the loot and split up. Police were later called to the scene, where they discovered heaps of evidence-including fingerprints on the gang's Monopoly board-that helped them track down the thieves. Eventually, all but one was caught. Ronald Biggs escaped to Brazil where he's become a minor celebrity... For a price you can dine with him.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 1 515 kb/s
Video Resolution: 720x536
Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frames Per Second: 29.970 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 126 kb/s VBR 44.1 kHz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 25 min
Number Of Parts: 10
Part Size: 299 MB
Source: WEB DL
Encoded by: DocFreak08

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