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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
La Línea: Shadow of Narco 2020
Documentary
Go inside La Línea, the Spanish beach town turned into Europe's drug trafficking hub, and meet the law enforcement officials determined to change that.
The sides of La Línea: Shadow of Narco
- A Spanish beach town across the water from Gibraltar
- Hashish smuggled in from Morocco
- Police and customs officers trying to stop it
Good for you if
- you like hearing from the real officers and residents of La Línea.
- you're curious how a small town became a gateway for drugs into Europe.
- you want a short miniseries of half-hour episodes.
Bad for you if
- you want something light and safe for the evening.
About: drug trafficking · law enforcement · poverty · a town's reputation
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

Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? 2020
Documentary
Documentary series on the circumstances surrounding the death of María Marta García Belsunce, one of the most controversial criminal cases in Argentina.
The sides of Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?
- The death of María Marta García Belsunce
- A gated community near Buenos Aires
- Years of investigation and trials
Good for you if
- you follow real cases and the people caught up in them.
- you want to weigh the theories about what happened to María Marta.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a real death examined in detail.
About: justice · family · doubt
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
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

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo 2020
Documentary
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
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
Narcos 2015
Series
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
The sides of Narcos
- Pablo Escobar's rise in 1980s Colombia
- Two DEA agents hunting him
- The Cali cartel after him
Good for you if
- you want the hunt for Pablo Escobar told through the American agents who were part of it.
- you like seeing how cocaine money flowed from Medellín to Miami.
- you like a manhunt where every raid could go wrong.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the bombings and killings that took real lives in Colombia.
- you won't read subtitles for long Spanish-language scenes.
About: power · violence · justice
Cartel Land 2015
Documentary
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.
The sides of Cartel Land
- A doctor leading an armed uprising in Michoacán
- A vigilante patrol in the Arizona desert
- Cartel violence filmed from inside it
Good for you if
- you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them.
- you can take a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight.
- you like watching who really governs when the state stops.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real bodies and real gunfire.
- you need a story that ends with the problem solved.
About: vigilantism · corruption · violence
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 Mole: Undercover in North Korea 2020
Documentary
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
The sides of The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
- An ordinary Danish man infiltrating North Korea's allies
- A fake businessman and hidden cameras
- Secret arms deals discussed over dinner
Good for you if
- you like a real undercover operation where one slip could be fatal.
- you want a true story that plays like a spy thriller.
- you're curious how a closed dictatorship does business abroad.
Bad for you if
- you want chases and shootouts rather than tense meetings.
- two hours of hidden-camera footage is too much for you.
About: deception · dictatorship · courage

The First 48 2004
Documentary
The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced, it takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, autopsies, forensic processing, and interrogations.
The sides of The First 48
- Homicide detectives in the first hours of a case
- Real interrogations and crime scenes
- Families of victims waiting for answers
Good for you if
- you want to see how murder cases are really worked.
- you like the clock running on the first 48 hours of a murder case.
- you like following a case from the first call to the interrogation room.
Bad for you if
- you can't commit to a series with 30 seasons.
- you can't watch the grief of real victims' families.
About: justice · grief · police work
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord 2012
Series
Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.
The sides of Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
- The life of Pablo Escobar from petty crime to cartel boss
- A drug lord elected to Congress
- Colombia under the Medellín cartel's war
Good for you if
- you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.
- you like following how a cocaine empire was built, step by step.
- you like watching money buy politics until the state fights back.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch bombings and murders that happened to real people.
- a telenovela with daily-length episodes is too much for you.
About: power · violence · memory
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
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
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
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann 2019
Documentary
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
Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer 2019
Documentary
A twisted criminal's gruesome videos drive a group of amateur online sleuths to launch a risky manhunt that pulls them into a dark underworld.
The sides of Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
- Online amateur sleuths tracking a man who posts animal cruelty videos
- Clues found in the background of video frames
- A hunt that ends with a real murder
Good for you if
- you like an investigation solved from tiny details in the background of a video.
- you want to know how a killer used the internet to be seen.
- you like a three-episode manhunt where the stakes keep rising for the amateur sleuths.
Bad for you if
- you can't take detailed accounts of animals and a man being killed.
- you can't take a true crime where the victim's family is still grieving.
About: the internet · attention · guilt
The Thin Blue Line 1988
Documentary
One night in November 1976, after his car breaks down on a road outside Dallas, Randall Dale Adams accepts a ride from teenager David Harris. Harris is driving a stolen vehicle and, later that night, when Dallas police officer Robert Wood pulls the car over to check its headlights, he is shot and killed. A jury believes Adams is the killer, but stylized reenactments and interviews with key figures, conflicting testimonies and evidence are presented to argue that Adams was framed by a corrupt justice system, ultimately leading to his exoneration.
The sides of The Thin Blue Line
- A policeman shot dead at a Dallas traffic stop
- A man sentenced for a killing he says he did not commit
- The same night retold by each witness
Good for you if
- you want a real case laid out witness by witness.
- you like testing one account against another.
- you like a repeating score that holds the dread steady.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, this one circles the same night.
- a killing and a death sentence are too much for your evening.
About: justice · truth · doubt