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  1. This harrowing docuseries explores, a cruel conman masquerading as a British spy manipulates and steals from his victims, leaving ruined families in his wake.

    The sides of The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman

    • A conman posing as a British spy
    • Victims controlled and cut off from their families
    • Parents fighting for years to get their children back

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story told by the people who lived it.
    • you want to understand how a conman takes over people's lives.
    • you like a hunt that runs across years.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real people manipulated and abused for years.
    • you need some hope, and the damage to the families stays.

    About: manipulation · control · family

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  2. Bus 174 2002

    Documentary

    On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

    The sides of Bus 174

    • A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
    • Live television footage of the standoff
    • The life of the young man holding the gun

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
    • you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
    • you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
    • you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.

    About: poverty · police violence · invisibility

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  3. Suicide, murder... or something else? This docuseries examines chilling truths and theories around the deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family.

    The sides of House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

    • Eleven members of one Delhi family found dead
    • Police, reporters and relatives looking for answers
    • Handwritten diaries left in the house

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real case that shook Delhi.
    • you like an investigation weighing suicide, murder and belief.
    • you want to see how one family's history and shared beliefs shaped what happened.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a documentary about the deaths of a whole family.
    • you need some hope or comfort at the end.

    About: family · belief · grief · the media

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  4. This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.

    The sides of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult

    • A young actress drawn into NXIVM
    • A self-help group that became a cult
    • A mother fighting to get her daughter out

    Good for you if

    • you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.
    • you want to understand how a group took control of its members.
    • you're moved by a mother who refuses to give up on her daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
    • you want the whole cult told through many former members. This one stays close to India and her mother.

    About: manipulation · control · recovery

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  5. A chilling 911 call. A gruesome scene. What really happened inside a family's quiet suburban home? Murder or self-defense? Told from both sides, this documentary explores Jason Corbett's brutal death.

    The sides of A Deadly American Marriage

    • The death of Jason Corbett in North Carolina
    • A wife and father-in-law claiming self-defense
    • Two families, in Ireland and in America

    Good for you if

    • you follow true crime cases closely.
    • you like hearing both sides and judging for yourself.
    • you want a case told by two families, one in Ireland and one in America.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch children caught in a family's tragedy.
    • you can't stand the details of a brutal death.

    About: marriage · justice · family

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  6. Mommy Dead and Dearest 2017

    Documentary

    Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life that turned out to be a living nightmare.

    The sides of Mommy Dead and Dearest

    • A mother and a daughter everyone pitied in Missouri
    • A daughter who was never really sick
    • A crime planned with an online boyfriend

    Good for you if

    • you want the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case from the people who lived it.
    • you like a story where the victim and the culprit keep trading places.
    • you want to understand a mother and daughter bond turned into a prison.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take years of child abuse told in detail.
    • you need a true story with someone to fully root for.

    About: control · abuse · freedom

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  7. What Jennifer Did 2024

    Documentary

    When Jennifer Pan calls 911 to report that her parents have been shot, she becomes the primary focus of a captivating criminal case.

    The sides of What Jennifer Did

    • A daughter's 911 call after a home invasion
    • Police interrogation footage
    • Strict parents in a Toronto suburb

    Good for you if

    • you like true crime told through the real police footage.
    • you like following detectives as a story starts to crack.
    • you like a story about the pressure strict parents put on a daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a real murder inside a family.
    • you need some comfort at the end of a crime story.

    About: family pressure · lies · guilt

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  8. Beware the Slenderman 2016

    Documentary

    In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?

    The sides of Beware the Slenderman

    • Two 12-year-old girls and an internet legend
    • A classmate who survived an attack in the woods in Wisconsin
    • Parents trying to understand their daughters

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how an online story led to a real crime.
    • you like the chill of a creepypasta that crossed into real life.
    • you want to hear parents face what their children did.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a story about children, violence and mental illness.
    • you need answers that bring some peace.

    About: the internet · mental illness · childhood

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  9. American Nightmare 2024

    Documentary

    After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures.

    The sides of American Nightmare

    • A woman taken from her home in California in 2015
    • A couple the police refused to believe
    • Victims treated as suspects

    Good for you if

    • you want the real people telling their own story in their own words.
    • you like a case that keeps changing what you thought you knew.
    • you like a true story told with the suspense of a thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear a real kidnapping and assault described by the woman who lived it.
    • you need more than interviews and recordings to stay hooked.

    About: disbelief · trauma · justice

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  10. Girl in the Picture 2022

    Documentary

    A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

    The sides of Girl in the Picture

    • A young mother's mysterious death in Oklahoma
    • A boy taken from his school
    • A woman whose real name nobody knew

    Good for you if

    • you like a true case where every answer opens a darker question.
    • you like revelations that change everything you thought about the story.
    • you want to follow the people who spent decades finding out who she was.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take child abuse described in detail.
    • you need some justice or comfort at the end of a true story.

    About: identity · abuse · stolen childhood

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  11. Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.

    The sides of American Murder: The Family Next Door

    • A family's own videos and messages
    • Police bodycam from the night she vanished
    • A husband speaking to news cameras

    Good for you if

    • you want a case told only through the footage and messages left behind.
    • you want to see a family from the inside, a marriage under strain and two small daughters.
    • you follow real investigations closely.

    Bad for you if

    • a case built around a young mother and her two children is more than you can watch.
    • you need a documentary that leaves you some hope.

    About: grief · domestic violence · denial

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  12. The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.

    The sides of Monster: The Ed Gein Story

    • A Wisconsin farmer and grave robber in the 1950s
    • A son under his mother's hold
    • The horror films built on his crimes

    Good for you if

    • you want to watch Charlie Hunnam vanish into a hard role.
    • you want to know how one man shaped Psycho and Leatherface.
    • you can spend a whole season inside the head of a Wisconsin killer.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand graphic violence and desecrated bodies.
    • you can't watch abuse and madness up close.

    About: madness · a mother's hold · horror and Hollywood

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  13. Our Father 2022

    Documentary

    After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

    The sides of Our Father

    • A DNA test revealing many half siblings
    • A fertility doctor in Indianapolis
    • Siblings fighting for a new law

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of the doctor who used his own sperm on patients.
    • you like siblings piecing the truth together one DNA match at a time.
    • you like a documentary where each new test makes it worse.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take stories of deep betrayal of patients.
    • you need to see justice done in the end.

    About: betrayal · identity · consent

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  14. A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

    The sides of Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

    • Three boys murdered in West Memphis
    • Three teenagers put on trial
    • A town gripped by fear of satanism

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of the West Memphis Three, told as it unfolded.
    • you want to see a murder trial from inside the courtroom.
    • you like weighing the evidence yourself.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take the murder of children and their families' grief on screen.
    • two and a half hours is too much for you.

    About: justice · fear · prejudice

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  15. Audrie & Daisy 2016

    Documentary

    A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.

    The sides of Audrie & Daisy

    • Two teenage girls who were sexually assaulted
    • Families facing the aftermath
    • Online harassment in small towns

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear what happened from the families and survivors themselves.
    • you can be moved by families speaking about a loss.
    • you want to see how small towns turned on two girls instead of the boys they accused.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about sexual assault and suicide.
    • you need justice at the end of a true story, and these cases leave you angry.

    About: consent · victim blaming · cyberbullying · grief

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  16. The Imposter 2012

    Documentary

    In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

    The sides of The Imposter

    • A Texas boy missing for three years, found in Spain
    • A family welcoming him home
    • A man telling the camera how he lied

    Good for you if

    • you like a story that gets stranger every ten minutes.
    • you like an investigation where the questions keep changing.
    • you like hearing a con man explain his con himself.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a real missing child and a grieving family.
    • you can't stand not knowing who to believe. Each witness tells the story their own way.

    About: identity · lies · grief

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  17. Deliver Us from Evil 2006

    Documentary

    Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.

    The sides of Deliver Us from Evil

    • A priest who abused children for decades
    • A Church that moved him from parish to parish
    • Victims and their families speaking out

    Good for you if

    • you want survivors and their families to be heard.
    • you want to understand how one priest escaped justice for so long.
    • you want to see how an institution protected itself.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take child abuse described in detail.
    • you need a story that ends with justice served.

    About: betrayal · faith · accountability

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  18. Maternal Instinct 2026

    Documentary

    Police pull over a woman who claims she just gave birth. But the baby — and the blood — aren't hers. Twisted lies unravel in this true-crime documentary.

    The sides of Maternal Instinct

    • A traffic stop with a newborn baby
    • A woman whose story does not add up
    • Investigators unpicking a web of lies

    Good for you if

    • you like watching investigators work out whose baby it really is.
    • you want a true case told by the people who lived it.
    • you like a story where every answer opens a darker question.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a real crime against a mother and her child.
    • you need some hope by the end.

    About: motherhood · deception · loss

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  19. Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

    The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

    • Jeffrey Dahmer's recorded interviews with his lawyers
    • Investigators looking back on the case
    • Warning signs missed in Milwaukee

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear a real case through the original tapes.
    • you want to understand how the warning signs were missed for years.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to a killer describe what he did to his victims.
    • you need some light, and this story of a killer and his victims offers none.

    About: true crime · missed warnings · the victims

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  20. Cropsey 2010

    Documentary

    Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.

    The sides of Cropsey

    • A Staten Island urban legend
    • Children who went missing
    • The ruins of an abandoned institution

    Good for you if

    • you like two filmmakers digging into the disappearances of their childhood.
    • you like the chill of a boogeyman story that turns out to be real.
    • you like true crime set in the woods and ruins of Staten Island.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about missing children.
    • you need every question answered by the end.

    About: urban legends · fear · missing children

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