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The Seven Five 2015
Documentary
Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of '80s Brooklyn.
The sides of The Seven Five
- Michael Dowd, a corrupt Brooklyn cop
- The 75th Precinct in the 1980s
- Cocaine dealers paying police for protection
Good for you if
- you like hearing how a cop ran a drug business from his patrol car.
- you want the real story behind a police scandal.
- you're fascinated by a man who brags about what he did.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cops and dealers describing beatings and threats.
- you can't watch a cop's slide into cocaine addiction told in his own words.
About: corruption · loyalty · betrayal
O.J.: Made in America 2016
Documentary
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
The sides of O.J.: Made in America
- A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
- Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
- The 1995 murder trial and what came after
Good for you if
- you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
- you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
- you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.
Bad for you if
- nearly eight hours is too much for you.
- you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.
About: race · fame · justice · America
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger 2014
Documentary
A documentary that captures the sensational trial of infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the legal proceedings as a springboard to explore allegations of corruption within the highest levels of law enforcement. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger examines Bulger's relationship with the FBI and Department of Justice that allowed him to reign over a criminal empire in Boston for decades.
The sides of Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
- The 2013 trial of James 'Whitey' Bulger
- A Boston gangster and his ties to the FBI
- Families of his victims waiting for answers
Good for you if
- you want to follow a real trial and what it uncovered.
- you're drawn to how a Boston gangster ruled for decades.
- you want to know how far up the FBI's protection went.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grieving families describing real murders.
- you lose track among agents, prosecutors and former associates.
About: corruption · justice · truth
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer 2021
Documentary
In 1970s NYC, the “Torso Killer” preys on women to fulfill his grotesque fantasies while eluding police. A docuseries dive into crime’s darkest places.
The sides of Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
- Murders of women in 1970s New York
- Times Square in its roughest years
- Detectives and families looking back
Good for you if
- you want true crime that remembers the women who were killed.
- you like to understand how a killer went unnoticed for years.
- you're drawn to the New York of the 1970s and its Times Square.
Bad for you if
- you can't face the murders of real women, even told soberly.
- you can't stand descriptions of brutal crimes.
About: the victims · the city · justice
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness 2021
Documentary
The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a Satanic cult.
The sides of The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
- A journalist obsessed with the Son of Sam case
- A theory of a Satanic cult
- 1970s New York in fear
Good for you if
- you like 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear.
- you like following a theory that the killer did not act alone.
- you like a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not revisit the murders of real young people.
- you need a theory backed by proof, not obsession.
About: obsession · truth · fear
Cocaine Cowboys 2006
Documentary
In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.
The sides of Cocaine Cowboys
- Miami in the cocaine boom of the 1980s
- Smugglers and a hitman telling their own story
- Griselda Blanco and the drug wars
Good for you if
- you like smugglers explaining how the cocaine reached Miami.
- you want the true story told by the people who lived it.
- you like seeing how drug money built a city's banks and towers.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand crime scene photos and talk of killings.
- you can't listen to smugglers and a hitman telling their stories with pride.
About: greed · drugs · money
The Central Park Five 2012
Documentary
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
The sides of The Central Park Five
- Five Harlem teenagers arrested in 1989
- Confessions taken after hours of questioning
- Years in prison before the real attacker confesses
Good for you if
- you want the Central Park case told carefully, with the facts.
- you want to see how police, press and public rushed to judgment.
- you want the five men to tell it in their own words.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a rape case and teenagers sent to prison.
- you need some hope, and stolen years are hard for you to watch.
About: injustice · racism · the press
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes 2019
Documentary
A unique look inside the mind of an infamous serial killer with this cinematic self-portrait crafted from statements made by Ted Bundy, including present-day interviews, archival footage and audio recordings from death row.
The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
- Ted Bundy's own taped interviews from death row
- Archive footage of 1970s trials
- Detectives and journalists who followed the case
Good for you if
- you want to hear a real case from the recordings themselves.
- you like 1970s archive footage of a case that marked America.
Bad for you if
- you can't listen to a man describe crimes against real young women.
- you need some hope, and this offers none.
About: evil · justice · the media
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer 2021
Documentary
Beneath the sunlit glamour of 1985 L.A. lurks a relentlessly evil serial killer. In this true-crime story, two detectives won't rest until they catch him.
The sides of Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
- Los Angeles in the summer of 1985
- Two detectives on a serial killer's trail
- Witnesses and survivors telling what they saw
Good for you if
- you like a manhunt where the city waits for the next attack.
- you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.
- you want the detectives who worked the case to tell it.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear survivors recall attacks in their own homes.
- you can't look at crime scene photos.
About: fear · the hunt · justice
The Ripper 2020
Documentary
For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.
The sides of The Ripper
- Thirteen women killed in the North of England
- A police hunt that lasted five years
- Women of Yorkshire recalling the fear
Good for you if
- you want the victims and their families heard, not just the killer.
- you like a portrait of Yorkshire in the late 1970s.
- you want to understand why the police took so long to catch him.
Bad for you if
- you can't listen to families talk about murdered mothers and daughters.
- you need a story that leaves you with some hope.
About: violence against women · police failure · fear
American Gangster 2007
Película
Nueva York, 1968. Frank Lucas es el taciturno chófer de un importante mafioso negro de Harlem. Cuando su jefe muere inesperadamente, Frank aprovecha la oportunidad para construir su propio imperio. Gracias a su talento, se convierte no sólo en el principal narcotraficante de la ciudad, inundando las calles con productos de mejor calidad y precio, sino también en un hombre público muy respetado. Richie Roberts, un policía incorruptible marginado por su honradez que conoce bien las calles, se da cuenta de que una persona ajena a los clanes trepa por la escalera del poder. Tanto Roberts como Lucas comparten un estricto código ético que les aparta de los demás y los convierte en dos figuras solitarias en lados opuestos de la ley. Cuando se encuentren, el enfrentamiento entre ellos será inevitable.
Las caras de American Gangster
- Frank Lucas importando heroína desde Vietnam
- Un policía honrado en un cuerpo corrupto
- Harlem a finales de los años 60
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia basada libremente en los verdaderos Frank Lucas y Richie Roberts.
- te gusta Denzel Washington como un empresario sereno e implacable.
- te gusta el ascenso y la caída de un imperio de la droga.
Mala para ti si
- dos horas y media es demasiado para ti.
- no soportas los tiroteos y las palizas repentinos a plena luz del día.
Temas: la ambición · la corrupción · el narcotráfico

La trattativa 2014
Documentary
What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who assassinated Falcone and Borsellino? Of the eternal coexistence between the Mafia and politics? Between the mafia and the church? Between the Mafia and law enforcement? Or is there more? A group of actors enacts the most relevant episodes of the affair known as the Mafia-state negotiation, impersonating mobsters, secret service agents, high officials, magistrates, victims and murderers, Freemasons, honest and courageous people, and courageous people up to a point. Thus one of the most intricate events in our history becomes an exciting tale.
The sides of La trattativa
- Actors re-enacting the talks between the Italian state and the Mafia
- The murders of judges Falcone and Borsellino
- Mobsters, secret agents and politicians
Good for you if
- you want to understand one of Italy's most tangled true affairs.
- you're drawn to how the Mafia worked alongside the state.
- you like a film that asks who made deals with whom, and why.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Italian.
- you lose track among dozens of officials, mobsters and magistrates.
About: corruption · the mafia · justice · memory
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes 2022
Documentary
He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.
The sides of Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
- Recorded interviews with John Wayne Gacy
- Chicago suburbs in the 1970s
- The investigation that led to his crawlspace
Good for you if
- you want to hear a real killer in his own recorded words.
- you follow how investigators finally caught a man the town trusted.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through the murders of young men told in detail.
- you need some hope, and the families' grief stays to the end.
About: evil behind a smile · justice · the victims
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi 2022
Documentary
Rome, 1983. After leaving a music lesson, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi vanishes — embroiling the Vatican in a decades-long mystery.
The sides of Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
- A 15-year-old girl who vanished in Rome in 1983
- A brother who never stopped searching
- Questions that reach the Vatican
Good for you if
- you want a careful account of a real family's long search.
- you like following theories and leads across four decades.
- you want to see how powerful institutions answer hard questions.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for an Italian documentary.
- you need a case with a clear answer at the end.
About: grief · secrecy · the Church · justice
Donnie Brasco 1997
Película
Basada en hechos reales, narra la historia del agente del FBI, Joe Pistone, que abandona temporalmente a su familia y se hace pasar por gángster, el joyero Donnie Brasco, y que para ser aceptado por los mafiosos debe probar su lealtad y su disposición para cometer crímenes. Para acceder al corazón de las actividades del clan de los Bonnano, Donnie se gana la confianza de Lefty Ruggiero, un cínico pistolero en decadencia que nunca consiguió entrar en las altas esferas del poder.
Las caras de Donnie Brasco
- Un agente del FBI infiltrado en la mafia de Nueva York
- Al Pacino como un mafioso entrado en años que responde por él
- Un matrimonio que se deshace en casa
Buena para ti si
- te gusta Al Pacino como un gánster cansado que confía en el hombre equivocado.
- te gusta una historia real desde dentro de la mafia de los años setenta.
- te gusta el miedo a ser descubierto en cada cena.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas los asesinatos repentinos y brutales.
- quieres persecuciones y tiroteos más que conversaciones.
Temas: la lealtad · la traición · la identidad
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich 2020
Documentary
Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.
The sides of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
- Survivors telling their own stories
- A billionaire's homes in Palm Beach and New York
- A 2008 plea deal and its consequences
Good for you if
- you want to hear the survivors in their own words.
- you want to understand how money and connections protected one man for years.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear accounts of the sexual abuse of teenage girls.
- you need some hope, and justice here comes late and incomplete.
About: abuse of power · justice · survivors

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
Waco: American Apocalypse 2023
Documentary
This docuseries includes never-before-seen material from the infamous 51-day standoff between federal agents and a heavily armed religious group in 1993.
The sides of Waco: American Apocalypse
- A 51-day standoff in Texas in 1993
- Federal agents facing an armed religious group
- Footage never shown before
Good for you if
- you want to understand what really happened at Waco.
- you like a defining American event told from the inside.
- you like following a siege day by day toward its end.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand real gunfights on screen.
- you'd rather not watch a tragedy where children died.
About: faith · authority · tragedy
The Dissident 2020
Documentary
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
The sides of The Dissident
- A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
- His fiancée waiting outside
- Dissidents fighting a state online
Good for you if
- you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
- you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
- you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
- you can't hear the details of a killing described.
About: free speech · surveillance · impunity
Making a Murderer 2015
Documentary
Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.
The sides of Making a Murderer
- A man freed by DNA after 18 years in prison
- A new murder charge two years later
- A nephew's confession and the trials that follow
Good for you if
- you want to weigh the evidence in the Steven Avery case yourself.
- you like seeing how a county police force and a court work up close.
- you like a case followed over ten years, hearing by hearing.
Bad for you if
- a real young woman's murder and a teenager's interrogation are too much for you.
- you need some hope, and a family's ten-year fight through prison visits and appeals wears you down.
About: justice · doubt · family