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Tabloid 2011
Documentary
One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.
The sides of Tabloid
- A former beauty queen telling her side
- A Mormon missionary who vanished in 1977 England
- British tabloids racing for the scoop
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a true story so strange it sounds invented.
- you like a real 1977 scandal and the British tabloids that fought over it.
- you can't look away from Joyce McKinney telling her version with total conviction.
Bad for you if
- you need to know at the end who was telling the truth.
- you can't hear a kidnapping and rape accusation told as a strange, funny story.
About: obsession · the press · truth
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
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
I'll Be Gone in the Dark 2020
Documentary
An exploration of the case of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, committing 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders, and true crime author Michelle McNamara's obsessive quest to find justice on behalf of his victims.
The sides of I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- The Golden State Killer case
- Michelle McNamara, a true crime writer
- Survivors telling what happened to them
Good for you if
- you like an amateur detective piecing together clues decades old.
- you want the survivors' voices at the centre of a true crime story.
- you care as much about Michelle McNamara's obsession as about the case.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear real survivors of rape describe their attacks.
- you can't sleep after hearing about a man breaking into homes at night.
About: obsession · grief · justice
Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal 2024
Documentary
When a dating site for people seeking adulterous affairs is hacked, millions of users' intimate data is exposed, wrecking marriages and destroying lives.
The sides of Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal
- A dating site built for cheating spouses
- A 2015 hack that leaked millions of users
- Marriages and lives exposed overnight
Good for you if
- you like true stories about how the internet changed private life.
- you want to follow a data breach from the hack to the blackmail that came after.
- you want a true crime story with no bloodshed. All the damage here comes from leaked data.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real families talk about shame, divorce and a suicide.
- you need to know who the hackers were in the end.
About: infidelity · privacy · shame · public exposure
MINDHUNTER 2017
Series
In the late 1970s, two FBI agents start interviewing imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, and use what they learn on open cases.
The sides of MINDHUNTER
- Interviews with real killers
- The birth of criminal profiling
- What the work does to the people doing it
Good for you if
- you like tension that comes from people talking across a table.
- you like stories built on real cases and real killers.
- you like a slow, quiet build more than action.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand a story left unfinished, and the series stopped after two seasons with the BTK thread still open.
- you don't want to hear crimes against women and children described in detail.
About: evil · method · the 1970s · obsession
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths 2021
Documentary
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
Casting JonBenet 2017
Documentary
Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.
The sides of Casting JonBenet
- Local actors auditioning to play the people in a real case
- The murder of a six-year-old girl in Boulder
- Everyone's own theory of what happened
Good for you if
- you like a film that leaves the question open on purpose.
- you want to see how a famous crime lives on in a town's imagination.
- you like local actors whose own lives seep into the roles they audition for.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with the death of a child, even years later.
- you want a plain documentary, not rows of local actors playing the same parents.
About: grief · rumour · the media
Tickled 2016
Documentary
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
The sides of Tickled
- A New Zealand journalist and a strange online tickling contest
- A secretive company that hits back with lawyers
- Young men harassed after taking part
Good for you if
- you like following a reporter who keeps digging when he is told to stop.
- you like a story that starts as a joke and turns into something else.
- you like true stories stranger than anything made up.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through people being bullied and threatened online.
- you want a light, silly documentary and the laughs stop early.
About: online harassment · power and money · shame · journalism
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
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 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
Tiger King 2020
Documentary
A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.
The sides of Tiger King
- A private zoo full of tigers in Oklahoma
- A feud between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin
- A murder-for-hire plot
Good for you if
- you can laugh at how far a feud between zoo owners goes.
- you like a real story stranger than anything you'd make up.
- you like a cast of big cat breeders who each seem invented.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch big cats kept in cages and badly treated.
- you need answers, and the disappearance of Carole Baskin's husband is never solved.
About: obsession · rivalry · greed
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel 2021
Documentary
The notorious Cecil Hotel grows in infamy when guest Elisa Lam vanishes. A dive into crime's darkest places.
The sides of Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
- A downtown Los Angeles hotel with a dark past
- A young guest who disappears in 2013
- Elevator footage that went around the internet
Good for you if
- you like a disappearance that seems to have no explanation.
- you like a hotel where every floor seems to hide something.
Bad for you if
- a real young woman's disappearance and her family's pain are too much for you.
- you need momentum, and four episodes circle one case through the hotel's past and online theories.
About: disappearance · rumor · mental health
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 Devil Next Door 2019
Documentary
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
The sides of The Devil Next Door
- A retired autoworker from Cleveland
- A trial in Jerusalem
- Holocaust survivors on the witness stand
Good for you if
- you want to understand the real trial of John Demjanjuk.
- you like a question of identity: a grandfather or a death camp guard.
- you like archive footage of a trial that gripped Israel in the 1980s.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch survivors describe the death camps.
- you need a clear answer on who the man really was.
About: justice · memory · identity
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
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
Stories We Tell 2012
Documentary
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
The sides of Stories We Tell
- Sarah Polley questioning her own family
- A mother who died when Sarah was young
- Home movies, some of them restaged
Good for you if
- you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
- you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
- you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
- you want one clear version of the truth at the end.
About: memory · truth · family secrets
Collective 2019
Documentary
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
The sides of Collective
- A nightclub fire in Bucharest
- Sports journalists investigating hospitals
- A new health minister inside the system
Good for you if
- you want a true investigation filmed as it happens.
- you like seeing how corruption reaches from hospitals to ministers.
- you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Romanian.
- you can't watch burn victims and grieving families on screen.
About: corruption · journalism · grief · public health