My Favorite True Crime Documentaries.
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- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsRandall AdamsDavid HarrisGus RoseA film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
- DirectorNick BroomfieldStarsAileen WuornosNick BroomfieldArlene Pralle1992, Florida, USA. Aileen Wuornos is claimed to be the world's first female serial killer.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerBruce SinofskyStarsDelbert WardRoscoe WardLyman WardThis compelling documentary details the strange-but-true murder trial of Delbert Ward, accused of the mercy killing of his brother in rural upstate NY. This real-life murder mystery won the Audience Award at Sundance.
- 1983– 47mNot Rated7.5 (1.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorArthur GinsbergTom SpainStarsRichard KuklinskiMichael BadenRobert J. CarrollRichard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that features one of the most vivid and disturbing interviews ever recorded--taped behind the walls of the prison where Kuklinski is serving two consecutive life sentences for multiple homicide.
- DirectorNick BougasStarsDavid BerkowitzKenneth BianchiTed BundyA post clinical style of commentary and re-cap by the judges, lawyers, psychologists, forensic scientists and serial killers themselves, who were engaged in the criminal prosecution of some of the most famous serial killers.
- DirectorRobert FortierThe recounting of a deadly Canadian bank robbery in the 1950's and the resulting massive man hunt for the killer.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsMichael AligGitsieJames St. JamesDocumentary film exploring the rise of Club Kid legend Michael Alig and his fall in 1996 when he murdered his drug dealer/roommate Angel Melendez.
- DirectorErrol MorrisNonfiction author Sondra London tells of how she met and had a relationship with serial killers Gerard John Schaefer and Danny Rolling.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsErrol MorrisAntonio MendezAn interview with Antonio Mendez, who was a CIA operative and master of disguise. Dubbed "the little grey man" for his ability to blend in.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsErrol MorrisCan a parrot be an eye witness to a murder?
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsErrol MorrisCharles ButlerBill KinsleyAn interview with Bill Kinsley, who was the employer of the disgruntled postal worker, Thomas Mcvane
- DirectorErrol MorrisCrime scene cleaner Joan Dougherty explains that, after the death of her stepson, she discovered that the police do not clean up crime scenes once they are done collecting evidence from them. As a result of her experience cleaning up the physical signs of her stepson's death, as well as his personal effects, she started a business cleaning crime scenes so that other parents and loved ones did not have to.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsMichael StoneAn interview with Dr. Michael stone, a forensic psychologist.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsMurray RichmanAn interview with Murray Richman, who was an attorney for a New York Italian crime family.
- DirectorArthur GinsbergStarsMark MustoRocco FazzolariRichard KuklinskiRichard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, a loving father...and a ruthless killer. A decade after HBO last visited him in prison, the convicted murderer, who freely admits having whacked more than 100 people in cold blood, takes viewers back inside his cold, calculating mind. In this follow-up to America Undercover's 1992 film The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer, Kuklinski provides all-new insights about his exploits as one of the Mafia's most notorious assassins...and reveals some shocking confessions for a number of previously unsolved murders.
- DirectorNick BroomfieldJoan ChurchillStarsAileen WuornosNick BroomfieldTerry Humphreys-SlayNick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.
- DirectorAndrew JareckiStarsArnold FriedmanJesse FriedmanDavid FriedmanDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
- DirectorArthur GinsbergStarsRichard KuklinskiPark DietzFor the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind of one of the most prolific killers in U.S. history--in this gripping documentary. Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski freely admits to killing more than 100 people, but in this special, he speaks with top psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz in an effort to face the truth about his condition. Filled with more never-before-revealed confessions, it's the most chillingly candid Iceman special yet as it combines often-confrontational interview footage between Kuklinski and Dietz with photos, crime reenactments and home movies that add new layers to this evolving and fascinating story.
- DirectorLaine DreweryStarsNick MancusoVictor PileggiChris Lane
- DirectorRobert StoneStarsRuss LittleMichael BortinTimothy FindleyThe story of the 1974 kidnap of teenage heiress Patty Hearst, which set off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history.
- DirectorBilly CorbenStarsJon RobertsAl SunshineSam BurstynThe story of how Miami became the cocaine capital of the United States in the early 1980's and the police officers who turned the tide on crime.
- DirectorSimon GeorgeStarsRick BorgiaRichard DillaneTony GaltieriA documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the gangster Henry Hill.
- DirectorToby DyeStarsIssei SagawaOlivier FollBarak KushnerThe Cannibal that Walked Free (also known as Cannibal Superstar ) is a British documentary produced by Visual Voodoo for Channel Five which explores - through direct access - the bizarre psychology and twisted celebrity fame that surrounds Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa.
- DirectorRyan OksenbergStarsColin MoneymakerAl JardineDennis Wilson"Cease To Exist" explores the music motive to the Manson murders and uncovers Charles Manson's relationship with Beach Boys' drummer Dennis Wilson and record producer Terry Melcher.
- DirectorKurt KuenneStarsKurt KuenneAndrew BagbyDavid BagbyA filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son.
- DirectorDavid PriorStarsRalph A. SpinelliDonald CheneySanto Paul PanzarellaRetrospective documentary on Arthur Leigh Allen, a prime suspect in the Zodiac investigation.
- DirectorDavid PriorStarsPierre BidouRussell T. ButterbachLes LundbladRetrospective documentary covering aspects of the Zodiac investigation, including interviews with the original investigators and surviving victims.
- DirectorDon HardyDana NachmanStarsJack CummingsJackie CummingsAllen GraftonThe story of several families who have their lives destroyed when their hometown is whipped into a frenzy by allegations of child molestation.
- DirectorJessica ConwayStarsStan BernardDan OlsonMichael ButterfieldMysteryQuest examines the San Francisco's Zodiac Killer who murdered at least five people and then disappeared. It looks at a new suspect in the murder and offers audio evidence of the suspect to one of few people to hear the Zodiac speak. It also examines new 'touch' DNA analysis of the Zodiac letters and revisits old crime scenes with the original police investigators. Finally, it talks to code breakers who re-examines the Zodiac's letters and also artists who create a age progressed composition sketchy of the murderer.
- DirectorChris MitchellStarsCorey JohnsonArthur J. BilekJames W. WagnerThe real story of how Eliot Ness and his Untouchables were actually a smokescreen for the forensic accounting tax investigation of crime boss, Al Capone. invincible Mafia boss.
- DirectorMike DorseyStarsRon HaleCraig HarveyNikki Medlin"The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter" walks in the footsteps of the Manson Family, visiting over 40 locations related to the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders, and tying together the dozens of odd connections between Charles Manson and the Hollywood elite. Entertainingly led by famous Hollywood historian Scott Michaels (E!'s 20 Most Horrifying Hollywood Murders, Dearly Departed: Vol. 1, FindADeath.com), this epic documentary employs never-before-seen autopsy reports (analyzed with the help of the Los Angeles Department of the Coroner), dozens of rare photographs, original Manson Family music recordings, and modern-day visits to the locations where the action went down, in the most complete retelling of the Manson Murders ever put on film.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsJoyce McKinneyPeter ToryTroy WilliamsA documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogRichard LopezMichael PerryConversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
- DirectorKen BurnsSarah BurnsDavid McMahonStarsAntron McCrayKevin RichardsonKharey WiseA documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.
- DirectorGregory MarquetteStarsHoward AbadinskyNathanial BaroneMarco CeritelliThe story of Walter L. Shaw, a telecommunications genius, and his son Walter T. Shaw, a ruthless jewel thief, is a metaphor and a symbol for its time - for the twentieth century and for today.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogHank Skinner
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogJames BarnesTod Goodyear
- 2012– 49m7.9 (66)TV Episode
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogLinda CartyRaymundo CabreraIn February 2002 Linda Anita Carty was sentenced to death for the abduction and murder in 2001 of 25-year-old Joana Rodriguez in order to steal Rodriguez's newborn son.
- DirectorAmy BergStarsJason BaldwinDamien Wayne EcholsJessie MisskelleyAn examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
- DirectorAl ReinertJohn DeanNellie GonzalezStarsNellie GonzalezMichael MortonJohn Raley'Our procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.' - Justice Learned Hand, 1923. The prospect of unjust imprisonment is a plight both easily imagined and terrifying, and we all wonder how we might fare in such a grim circumstance. No case in modern America illuminates this condition more completely than the story of Michael Morton. In 1986, his young wife was brutally murdered in front of their only child, and he was accused and convicted of the crime, spending a quarter century in Texas prisons. His unreal dream was and is a powerful journey through despair and abandonment to a greater freedom than most of us know, but all can appreciate.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWilliam BrownJessica CarsonRick HaganFor a time, the youngest man on Death Row, Herzog interviews Blaine Milam and others about the brutal 2008 killing of his girlfriend's 13 month old daughter.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogDamon RoutierDarlie RoutierDarlie Routier, convicted of murdering her five-year-old son, Damon. Two of her sons, Damon and 6-year-old Devon, were killed in the attack, but she was only tried for the murder of Damon
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsDouglas FeldmanJason JanuaryOn 24th August 1998, Douglas Feldman, then40, was driving his Harley Davidson in Plano when an 18 wheeled truck passed him and suddenly pulled into his lane. Feldman then took out a 9mm pistol and fired at the driver, killing him.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogRobert FrattaAmber BaquerInterview with Robert Fratta, who was convicted for hiring two men to murder his wife Farrah and was sentenced to death.
- DirectorTiller RussellStarsMike DowdKen EurellWalter YurkiwMeet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of 80s Brooklyn.
- DirectorLeslee UdwinStarsAsha DeviBadri SinghSatendraThe life and death of Jyoti Singh, an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian society.
- StarsSteven AveryDolores AveryLaura NiriderFilmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
- DirectorRod BlackhurstBrian McGinnStarsAmanda KnoxMeredith KercherRaffaele SollecitoAmerican exchange student Amanda Knox is charged with the 2007 death of another student in Italy.
- DirectorEzra EdelmanStarsKareem Abdul-JabbarMike AlbaneseMuhammad AliA 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.
- DirectorJames D. SolomonJessica RobinsonStarsWilliam GenoveseKitty GenoveseCharles SkollerThe brother of Kitty Genovese investigates the circumstances of her murder and the truth of the story that dozens of locals witnessed the crime and did nothing to intervene.
- DirectorCathleen O'ConnellStarsOliver PlattSimon BaatzHal HigdonThe trial of wealthy college students Leopold and Loeb, who murder a 14-year-old boy in 1924, sets off a national firestorm about morality and capital punishment.
- DirectorDavid BeilinsonMichael GalinskySuki HawleyStarsNoreen GoschNancy AllenPaul BonacciAn examination into the cold case of the Iowa boy, Johnny Gosch, who disappeared on his paper route 30 years earlier.
- StarsIan BellCraig Thomas RivelaRich GraffMaking of the Mob, is an eight-part docudrama that begins in 1905 and spans more than 50 years, tracing the original five families that led to the modern American Mafia, including the rise of Charles Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
- DirectorBilly CorbenStarsNelson AndreuJorge AyalaGriselda BlancoThe sequel follows cocaine dealer Charles Crosby beginning in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California. The story of Griselda Blanco is presented in greater depth.
- DirectorJon GreenhalghStarsJohn du PontDave SchultzMike GostigianDocumentary filmmaker Jon Greenhalgh examines the life of Dave Schultz, a professional wrestler who was part of 'Team Foxcatcher', funded by multi-millionaire John du Pont.
- DirectorKeith MaitlandStarsMonty MuirViolett BeaneCole Bee WilsonAnimation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.
- DirectorBarak GoodmanStarsJanet BeckAlan BergJim BottingDocuments the beliefs and experiences of Timothy McVeigh in the lead-up to his bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which claimed 168 lives.
- DirectorBarak GoodmanStarsSara WeaverDaniel LevitasJess WalterDrawing upon eyewitness accounts, including interviews with Weaver's daughter, Sara, and federal agents involved in the confrontation, Ruby Ridge is an account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
- StarsMark Williams-ThomasRick WardenTanya WinsorSeries 1: In June 1985 Carole Packman, a wife and mother mysteriously disappeared and has never been seen since. Her husband Russell Causley is now serving a life sentence for her murder, yet no body has ever been found. Throughout the case he pleaded his innocence and refused to talk. Mark Williams-Thomas re-investigates the disappearance of Carole Packman. With the help of neighbours and friends, he retraces Carole's last known steps. Series 2: The 1988 case of missing 18-year-old Louise Kay.
- 20184 epsTV-MA7.5 (31K)TV Mini SeriesStarsTrey BorzillieriJerry ClarkJason WickThe extraordinary story of the "pizza bomber heist" and the FBI's investigation into a bizarre collection of suspects.