FBI TRUE

On May 1, 2010, a T-shirt vendor in Times Square makes a chilling discovery: a man igniting a truck that contains an enormous bomb. Panic ripples through the crowd as tourists hastily evacuate the area and the NYPD bomb squad rushes to the scene. Swiftly, the bomb is defused and a manhunt is launched. The FBI's investigation unveils troubling connections between the bomber and the Pakistani Tal...

The Varrio Hawaiian Gardens (VHG) street gang is known for drug dealing, extortion, and hate-driven assaults against African-Americans. By the early 2000s, VHG criminals had been terrorizing the California city of Hawaiian Gardens for decades. After a VHG gang member commits an execution-style murder of a Deputy Sheriff, the FBI leads of a task force comprising more than 40 federal, state, and ...

When a US Deputy Marshal is killed in a shootout with white separatists, the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team is dispatched to apprehend the culprits. But things quickly go wrong on the remote mountaintop in Northern Idaho, leading to an 11-day standoff with Randy Weaver and his family. Former members of the HRT go on the record with firsthand accounts of the Ruby Ridge siege.

Two days into the Ruby Ridge standoff, members of the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team uncover the lifeless body of Randy Weaver's 14-year-old son, Sammy. With the remainder of the family still confined within their cabin, negotiators realize that the situation is even more dire than initially perceived. Former HRT members offer their personal accounts of the tragic events on the secluded mounta...

An FBI investigative specialist with no undercover training, Eric O'Neill, goes undercover and comes face-to-face with Robert Hanssen, a suspected spy. O’Neill works on winning Hanssen’s trust. But when the FBI decides they want to take apart Hanssen's car, O’Neill insists that he and Hanssen take a colleague's car to a meeting. Hanssen becomes suspicious, irate and demands answers.

Eric O'Neill, an FBI investigative specialist without any formal undercover training, successfully earns the trust of the suspected spy, Robert Hanssen — or so he thinks. In fact, it appears as though Hanssen might be attempting to recruit O'Neill. However, a pivotal moment arrives when O'Neill's handlers reveal the harsh reality: Hanssen isn't merely a spy; he's the most destructive spy in FBI...

In October 2011, 14-year old Chyenne Kircher disappears from her dysfunctional small-town Illinois home, leaving a runaway note. When the FBI joins local police to help find her, they follow a winding trail that leads from Chyenne’s own home to a shocking YouTube video that suggests sexual abuse - or even murder. When investigators turn their attention to Chyenne’s family, Special Agent Wayne J...

As FBI polygraphers start to examine members of Chyenne Kircher’s family, Special Agent Wayne Jackowski receives an urgent text: "Get up here NOW." Jackowski finds himself face-to-face with the prime suspect in her disappearance. What follows is an exchange that leads from the interrogation room to the crime scene and back again. Jackowski and detective Casey Folks doggedly wade through the sus...

FBI Bomb Tech Bill Forsyth is about to pick up an unattended backpack at a concert at the1996 Atlanta Olympics when a terrible feeling overtakes him; a large pipe bomb is inside it. He does everything he can to move bystanders away before the massive explosion rips through the crowd. At first, the FBI suspect the security guard who first spotted the bag. But when several other bombs are detonat...

After another deadly bombing, this time at a Birmingham abortion clinic, witnesses see a suspicious character in a wig walking away. The next day, the FBI has a name: Eric Robert Rudolph. They also have a location: a house in remote western North Carolina. When they arrive, the door is open and the TV is on. They've missed their suspect by hours. Rudolph, a hardened survivalist, has fled into t...

Two special agents in Los Angeles get a tip about a local drug kingpin who knows the whereabouts of two extremely valuable paintings that were stolen from Denmark’s national museum. They tap the "Indiana Jones of the FBI" to go undercover to help them recover a Rembrandt worth over $35 million.

In 2015, the FBI's Eurasian organized crime unit hears rumors that Russia might be bribing its way to hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup. As they start digging, they discover a system of embezzlement that puts billions of dollars into the pockets of a privileged FIFA few. Special agents tap American soccer statesman Chuck Blazer to help them take down one of the most powerful - and corrupt - organ...

When a massive bomb planted in a Ryder van explodes below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1993, the FBI sets out on a desperate international manhunt for the man who built the bomb. As agents arrive in world capitals just days after their quarry left, the Bureau discovers plans for new acts of terror meant to kill thousands. Will the FBI be able to catch this terror mastermind befo...

After a family doctor well-known for performing abortions is gunned down in his suburban Buffalo home in 1998, all clues point to an anti-abortion extremist as the sniper. But he’s nowhere to be found. Soon, the FBI turns to a rookie agent and a confidential informant in hopes they can ply a convicted clinic bomber and his wife for the intel that will bring this top 10 fugitive to justice. Form...

In 2014, a suburban police detective learns of a Seattle filmmaker who convinces teenage girls to engage in prostitution with fraudulent promises that they’ll cash in when he makes a movie on the subject. After the suspect goes on the run, the detective and an FBI special agent team up to uncover a multi-state sex-trafficking operation. Special Agent Ingrid Arbuthnot-Stohl and Natalie D’Amico s...

When the CIA’s most valuable Russian assets start disappearing one by one, the Agency starts hunting for the mole who’s been betraying them since 1985. As the mole hunters zero in on a trusted colleague, the FBI takes over the investigation in hopes of catching the culprit before more damage is done. Former FBI Special Agent Barry Colvert, former CIA officer Sandy Grimes and former FBI Supervis...

Described by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity,” the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., took the lives of four girls and forever changed the course of history. Within a few hours of the vicious attack, there were FBI bomb experts on the ground who started what would become a four-decade-lon...

Described by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity,” the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., took the lives of four girls and forever changed the course of history. Within a few hours of the vicious attack, there were FBI bomb experts on the ground who started what would become a four-decade-lon...