"crime documentaries" playlist

Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008)

Five high school cheerleaders, including the daughter of the school principal, run amok -- and teachers, parents and administrators allow them to get away with...

Cropsey (2009)

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boog...

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne creates a filmed tribute to a murdered friend, and chronicles efforts by the man's parents to gain custody of their gran...

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...

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...

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

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

The Beach Boys: An American Family (2000)

This movie re-creates the life stories of the members of the rock group "The Beach Boys. The film focuses primarily on the Wilson brothers and their parents, bu...

20 Feet from Stardom (2013)

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who ...

Room 237 (2012)

A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30...

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 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 Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992)

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There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (2011)

The accident made national headlines: a suburban mother drove the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway in upstate New York and crashed head-on into an SUV, killing ...

Amanda Knox (2016)

American exchange student Amanda Knox is convicted and eventually acquitted for the 2007 death of another student in Italy.

Beware the Slenderman (2016)

A documentary about the Slenderman stabbing in 2014.

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...

Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)

The twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story of the Brobergs, a naive, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor ...

Nightmare Factory (2011)

  In 1989 Greg Nicotero quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Rob...

The Nightmare (2015)

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

O.J. Speaks: The Hidden Tapes (2015)

Provides unique access inside Simpson's civil trial and his rare deposition tapes. Fred Goldman and members of the civil trial legal team, including Daniel Petr...

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...

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...

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 Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki examines the complicated life of reclusive real estate scion, Robert Durst, the key suspect in a series of unsolved crimes.

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...

The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann (2019)

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

The Family (2016)

A community is rattled when a politician's son, who was presumed murdered years ago, returns home.

The Keepers (2017)

A seven-part docuseries about the unsolved murder of a nun and the horrific secrets and pain that linger nearly five decades after her death.

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.

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'...

Hotel Erotica (2002)

Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders (2017)

The Clutter Family Murders: is a four-part docu-series that focuses on the brutal murder of the Clutter family in a small Kansas town in 1959, the resulting inv...

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...

Killer Confessions (2015)

A look inside the interrogation room where killers reveal their emotions, behaviors and confession.

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.