"crime documentaries" playlist

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.

Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade o...

Voyeur (2017)

Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents...

Veronica Guerin (2003)

Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's...

Uncovered: The McMartin Family Trials (2019)

A look at how a child abuse case engulfed a California beach community in 1983 and became a modern-day witch hunt.

Tupac Uncensored and Uncut: The Lost Prison Tapes (2009)

Featuring an uncut and never-before-seen interview at the Clinton Correctional Facility, TUPAC SHAKUR UNCENSORED AND UNCUT-THE LOST PRISON TAPES presents a raw ...

Titicut Follies (1967)

Frederick Wiseman's film "Titticut Follies" is a stark and graphic film showing the treatment of the criminally insane at the state prison at Bridgewater, Ma...

The Unseen Fred West Confessions (2014)

Locked in police station vaults across the UK are hundreds of hours of audio recordings. On these tapes are interviews with some of Britain’s most notorious kil...

The Source Family (2012)

A feature documentary film set in Hollywood, examining a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset Strip unti...

The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case: The Untold Story (2015)

Coinciding with the 20th Anniversary of the criminal trial verdict, this documentary exposes disturbing realities about O.J.'s thoughts, feelings, and behavior ...

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)

Err, the title is almost a summary itself. Based on the true story of a Texas mom who tries to hire a hitman (through her ex's brother) to kill either or bo...

The Police Tapes (1977)

A documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx.

The Nightmare (2015)

A look at a frightening condition that plagues thousands; sleep paralysis.

The Murder of Becky Watts: Police Tapes (2017)

Susanna Reid looks back on the evidence that showed who killed Becky Watts.

The Miranda Murders: Lost Tapes of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng (2017)

Delve into the minds of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charlie Ng with this horrifying found footage film, spanning the 1983-1984 killing spree that shocked Ca...

The Killing of America (1981)

A documentary of the decline of America. It features a lot a great footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.

The Imposter (2012)

THE IMPOSTER is a chilling factual thriller that chronicles the story of a 13-year-old boy who disappears without a trace from San...

The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992)

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The Hitler Family (2005)

This film provides history about members of Adolf Hitler's family of origin and surviving members of his family up to the date of it's release. It highlights su...

The Family I Had (2017)

In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act.

The Murder Tapes (2019)

Homicide investigations unfold through taped footage in Investigation Discovery's true-crime series The Murder Tapes. The series provides an up-close perspectiv...

Cheer (2020)

Follows the cheerleaders of Navarro College as they prepare for the biggest moment of their lives.

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020)

A true crime documentary on Joe Exotic, an Oklahoma polygamist, country singer, and gun toter who houses a horde of lions, tigers, and bears in his roadside zoo...

Hotel Erotica (2002)

The Windsors: A Royal Family (1994)

PBS documents the rise, fame and infamy of the Royal House of Windsor, born from its German roots.

McMillions (2020)

A detailed account of the McDonald's Monopoly game scam during the 1990s as told by the participants in the case, including the prizewinners and the FBI agents ...

Criminal Confessions (2017)

The series delves into the psychological showdown that takes place inside actual police interrogation rooms and dissects what happens to yield a confession.

The Pharmacist (2020)

In 1999, after losing his son in a drug-related shooting in New Orleans and lacking answers from police, a small town pharmacist - Dan Schneider - beats the odd...

Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer (2019)

A group of online justice seekers track down a guy who posted a video of him killing kittens.

The Confession Killer (2019)

Henry Lee Lucas was known as America's most prolific serial killer, admitting to hundreds of murders. But as DNA results contradict his confessions, will they e...

A Confession (2019)

Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.

Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist (2018)

The extraordinary story of the "pizza bomber heist" and the FBI's investigation into a bizarre collection of suspects.

The Family (2019)

An enigmatic conservative Christian group known as the Family wields enormous influence in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of its global ambitions.

The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann (2019)

The story of Madeleine McCann, the young girl who went missing while on vacation in Portugal.

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2019)

A look inside the mind of serial killer Ted Bundy featuring interviews with him on death row.

The Innocent Man (2018)

The story of Ron Williamson, a man who sat on Oklahoma's death row for 11 years for a crime he didn't commit. Based on John Grisham's "The Innocent Man: Murder ...

The Staircase: An American Murder Mystery (2018)

Michael Iver Peterson, an American novelist convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen, sees his life go under the microscope in this award winnin...

Making a Murderer (2015)

Filmed over a 10-year period, Making a Murderer is an unprecedented real-life thriller about Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing co...

Wild Wild Country (2018)

When the world's most controversial guru builds a utopian city deep in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal. A true sto...

Wormwood (2017)

This six-part series explores the limits of our knowledge about the past and the lengths we'll go in our search for the truth. A family story of one man'...