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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
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996
Documentary
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
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
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory 2012
Documentary
A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.
The sides of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
- The West Memphis Three after years in prison
- New DNA evidence
- A release through a plea deal
Good for you if
- you followed the West Memphis Three case and want to see how it ended.
- you like seeing how a murder case is built and taken apart.
- you like weighing evidence that points in a new direction.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the murder of three children, even told soberly.
- you need a case closed with a clear answer.
About: justice · innocence · time lost
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 2000
Documentary
Revisiting the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.
The sides of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
- Three young boys murdered in Arkansas
- Three teenagers convicted and still in prison
- New interviews with the judge and the police
Good for you if
- you want to follow a real case that kept doubting its own verdict.
- you like weighing the evidence yourself.
- you want to see how a trial can go wrong.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with the murder of children and the grief of their parents.
- two hours and ten minutes is too much for you.
About: justice · grief · doubt
The Confession Killer 2019
Documentary
Henry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences.
The sides of The Confession Killer
- A drifter who confessed to hundreds of murders
- Lawmen who closed cases on his word
- Families still waiting for the truth
Good for you if
- you want to understand how one man's confessions misled the police.
- you like true crime that questions the investigators.
- you like finding out which confessions could be true.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch stories of real murder victims.
- you need justice at the end, and many families never got it.
About: justice · false confessions · grief
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
The Jinx 2015
Documentary
Robert Durst, scion of NY's billionaire real-estate family, has been accused of three murders but has evaded justice for over 30 years. Durst speaks in this true crime series, revealing secrets of a case that has baffled authorities.
The sides of The Jinx
- Robert Durst answering questions on camera
- Three deaths across New York and Texas
- Old letters and a handwriting match
Good for you if
- you like a New York real-estate heir who seems out of reach of the law.
- you like a cold case reopened piece by piece.
- you like watching a man answer questions he could have refused.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through real murders and grieving families.
- you need momentum, and long interviews lose you.
About: wealth · guilt · justice
The Staircase 2004
Documentary
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.
The sides of The Staircase
- A writer charged with his wife's death
- His defense team at work, filmed from inside
- A murder trial in North Carolina
Good for you if
- you want to weigh the evidence in a real death yourself.
- you like a camera inside a real defense team during a murder trial.
- you can live with never knowing what happened on that staircase.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a family grieve a real death.
- you need momentum, and courtroom procedure loses you.
About: justice · doubt · family
West of Memphis 2012
Documentary
The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense allows the film to show the investigation, research, and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.
The sides of West of Memphis
- Three teenagers convicted of murdering three boys in 1993
- Damien Echols on death row
- A defence team chasing new evidence
Good for you if
- you want to follow the long fight to free Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley.
- you like new evidence reopening a case everyone thought was closed.
- you like seeing how a murder trial is built, and how it can go wrong.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear the details of the murder of three eight-year-old boys.
- two and a half hours is too much for you.
About: wrongful conviction · grief · justice
Amanda Knox 2016
Documentary
This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.
The sides of Amanda Knox
- The murder of a British student in Perugia
- Convictions, appeals and a final acquittal
- A prosecutor, a tabloid reporter and Knox herself on camera
Good for you if
- you want the people involved telling it themselves, years later.
- you like following how an investigation reached its conclusions.
- you want to see what the press and a courtroom can do to a life.
Bad for you if
- a real murder case is too much for your evening.
- you need a case that ends in certainty.
About: justice · the press · doubt
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
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
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story 2022
Documentary
Jimmy Savile was one of the United Kingdom’s most beloved TV personalities. Shortly after his death in 2011, an investigation prompted more than 450 horrific allegations of sexual assault and abuse, with victims as young as 5.
The sides of Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
- A TV star loved by the British public
- Archive footage of his decades of fame
- Survivors of his abuse
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real case that shook Britain.
- you want to see how fame and institutions protected Jimmy Savile.
- you want to know how this stayed hidden for so long.
Bad for you if
- you can't take accounts of child sexual abuse.
- you need some justice at the end, and he died before any trial.
About: abuse of power · silence · celebrity
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
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
Athlete A 2020
Documentary
Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse and hear from gymnasts.
The sides of Athlete A
- Reporters at the Indianapolis Star
- Gymnasts telling what Larry Nassar did
- A federation that protected itself
Good for you if
- you want to hear the gymnasts tell their story in their own words.
- you want to see how USA Gymnastics kept the abuse quiet for years.
- you like following a newspaper investigation as it closes in.
Bad for you if
- you can't take testimony about the sexual abuse of young athletes.
- you want something gentle and safe to watch tonight.
About: abuse · justice · courage · journalism
The Keepers 2017
Documentary
This docuseries examines the decades-old murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik and its suspected link to a priest accused of abuse.
The sides of The Keepers
- The unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik
- Former students of a Baltimore Catholic school
- Two women searching for answers decades later
Good for you if
- you like an old case reopened by people who refuse to drop it.
- you want survivors telling their own story.
- you like the former students who become investigators in their sixties.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear accounts of child sexual abuse.
- you need a case that ends with someone convicted.
About: abuse · cover up · justice
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