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  1. After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.

    The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo

    • A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
    • A Mexican justice system that lets him go
    • Years of protest in Chihuahua

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
    • you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
    • you need a story where justice wins in the end.

    About: justice · grief · corruption

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  2. 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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  3. What happened in the final days of Gabby Petito's life? In this gripping true-crime series, her loved ones reveal the untold story of her tragic murder.

    The sides of American Murder: Gabby Petito

    • A young couple's van trip across America
    • Her family and friends telling her story
    • Her own messages and police bodycam footage

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand Gabby Petito's last weeks beyond the headlines.
    • you want to follow a missing-person search that turns into a nationwide manhunt.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a story of domestic abuse that ends in murder.
    • you need some hope at the end of a story.

    About: domestic abuse · grief · warning signs

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  4. Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.

    The sides of There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane

    • A wrong-way crash on a New York parkway
    • A family that rejects the toxicology report
    • A crash that killed eight people

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what happened in that car.
    • you like a careful look at a real tragedy and the people left behind.
    • you can live with questions the evidence never settles.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take the death of children and a grieving family on screen.
    • you want an evening that leaves you feeling light.

    About: grief · denial · addiction

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  5. Why Did You Kill Me? 2021

    Documentary

    The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.

    The sides of Why Did You Kill Me?

    • A mother searching for her daughter's killers
    • Fake social media profiles
    • A family torn between justice and revenge

    Good for you if

    • you want a true story told by the family who lived it.
    • you're drawn to a murder case pursued online by a victim's family.
    • you like a mother who won't stop until she knows who killed her daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you find a family's grief over a murdered daughter too much.
    • you can't follow a grieving family as their search turns toward revenge.

    About: grief · revenge · justice

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  6. 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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  7. Into the Abyss 2011

    Documentary

    We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

    The sides of Into the Abyss

    • Werner Herzog talking to a man days before his execution
    • A triple murder in a small Texas town
    • Families of the victims and of the killers

    Good for you if

    • you like Herzog's quiet questions and the long answers they get.
    • you can take a film about death with no easy comfort.
    • you want to hear everyone touched by one crime, on every side.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through grieving families and a death row countdown.
    • you need momentum more than long, still interviews.

    About: the death penalty · loss · guilt

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  8. British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

    The sides of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

    • Nick Broomfield's interviews with Aileen Wuornos
    • Her last days on death row
    • Her childhood in Michigan

    Good for you if

    • you want a real person behind the headlines.
    • you like a portrait of someone you can't easily judge.
    • you can take a story that ends in an execution.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take childhood abuse and mental illness on screen.
    • you want a gentle evening, and this is a woman on death row.

    About: the death penalty · trauma · madness

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  9. 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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  10. The documentary takes a detailed look at the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on holiday with her family.

    The sides of The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

    • A three year old girl missing from a holiday resort in Portugal
    • The police inquiries in Portugal and Britain
    • The media storm around her parents

    Good for you if

    • you want a detailed look at a case you remember from the news.
    • you like following every lead in a long investigation.

    Bad for you if

    • you find a missing child and her family's pain too hard to watch.
    • you need an answer, and the case has none yet.

    About: loss · the media · hope

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  11. Everybody’s Everything 2019

    Documentary

    The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.

    The sides of Everybody’s Everything

    • Lil Peep, from Long Island to stardom
    • His family and friends remembering him
    • A death from an overdose at 21

    Good for you if

    • you love Lil Peep's songs or want to know where they came from.
    • you're ready to be moved by a life cut short at 21.
    • you want the story told by the people who loved him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take drugs, depression and an overdose on screen.
    • you need more than home videos and interviews.

    About: grief · fame · addiction

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  12. The Perfect Neighbor 2025

    Documentary

    Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

    The sides of The Perfect Neighbor

    • A neighborhood feud seen through police bodycam footage
    • A mother shot through a closed door in Florida
    • Florida's Stand Your Ground law

    Good for you if

    • you like watching a small dispute build call after call toward something worse.
    • you want a story told almost only through real police footage.
    • you want to see how Florida's Stand Your Ground law plays out after a shooting.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a real mother's death and her children's grief.
    • you need some hope by the end of a true story.

    About: fear · prejudice · justice

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  13. The Crash 2026

    Documentary

    A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case.

    The sides of The Crash

    • A car crash that killed two young men
    • A teenage driver on trial
    • Investigators asking if it was an accident

    Good for you if

    • you like true crime that follows a case into the courtroom.
    • you like a question to answer: accident or murder.
    • you want to hear the real parents and investigators tell the case.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take the grief of families who lost their sons.
    • you need some hope in a story about young lives lost.

    About: young love · grief · justice

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  14. In interviews and rare home video footage, ex-FLDS members share the truth about their isolated community — and the events that pushed them to leave.

    The sides of Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

    • A closed polygamist church in the American West
    • Warren Jeffs, a self-declared prophet
    • Former members and their home videos

    Good for you if

    • you want former members telling the truth about a world they escaped.
    • you like seeing how one man took control of a whole community.
    • you are drawn to stories of mothers and daughters breaking away.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take real stories of child abuse and underage marriage.
    • you need some light in a story, and this one stays dark for long stretches.

    About: faith · control · escape

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Take Care of Maya 2023

    Documentary

    When Jack and Beata Kowalski are wrongfully accused of child abuse after their 10-year-old daughter Maya visits the ER, a nightmare unfolds.

    The sides of Take Care of Maya

    • A sick ten-year-old taken into state custody
    • Parents accused of abuse after a hospital visit
    • A family suing the hospital

    Good for you if

    • you want to follow a family fighting to get their daughter back.
    • you want to see how a hospital and child services can overrule parents.
    • you're ready to be moved by what the Kowalskis went through.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a sick child kept away from her parents for months.
    • you need some hope to hold on to in a true story.

    About: false accusations · motherhood · institutions

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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. 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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