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🕵️‍♂️CRIME OF THE CENTURY🦹‍♂️
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Another one of my favourite genres, true crime! Films, biopics and documentaries about some very interesting people…

Evildoers ~ outlaws, serial and spree killers, cults and their leaders, genocidal maniacs, and other regular clean cut guys like Ted…

🛠 A work in progress, cuz there’s no rest for the wicked…


Creator: Merrigan Able
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TV Show: Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes ( 2019 )
The four-part series about serial killer Ted Bundy will feature previously unheard interviews with Bundy while he was on death row in Florida.
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Movie: The Stranger Beside Me ( 2003 )
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.
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Movie: The Deliberate Stranger ( 1986 )
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
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Movie: Bundy ( 2002 )
The story of serial killer Ted Bundy.
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Movie: Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ( 1982 )
The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
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Movie: Citizen X ( 1995 )
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
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TV Show: Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer ( 2020 )
Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer is chronicling the serial killer Ted Bundy's relationship with his long-term girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall. The docuseries reframing Bundy's crimes from a female perspective, delving into how his pathological hatred of women collided with the culture wars and feminist movement of the 1970s, culminating in the infamous true-crime saga. After nearly 40 years of silence, Kendall and her daughter Molly share their experiences with Bundy and provide an archive of never-before-seen family photos.
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Movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1991 )
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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Movie: The Iceman ( 2013 )
The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession.
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TV Show: House of Hancock ( 2015 )
House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang Hancock, his daughter Gina Rinehart and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose Lacson.
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Movie: Alison ( 2016 )
When the going gets really tough, we need ordinary people of extraordinary strength and courage to jolt us into action and offer us hope. In December 1994 Alison Botha became such an individual. She needed a hero that night, so that's what she became.
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TV Show: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst ( 2015 )
From Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling (the Oscar® nominees behind Capturing the Friedmans), comes The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part examination of the reclusive millionaire at the heart of three killings spanning four decades. Robert Durst, the scion of a New York real estate empire, has long been a suspect in the notorious 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathie. Further suspicion was raised with the unsolved killing of his confidante, Susan Berman, thought to be a key witness in the investigation into Kathie's disappearance in 2000, as well as the subsequent killing and dismemberment of a neighbor in Galveston, Texas. Durst has consistently maintained his innocence and remains a free man today.
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Movie: Animal Kingdom ( 2010 )
A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
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Movie: The Pentagon Papers ( 2003 )
Defense worker Daniel Ellsberg seeks to publish a series of classified government documents detailing the true nature of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Movie: A Killer in the Family ( 1983 )
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
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Movie: Elephant ( 2003 )
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
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Movie: A Cry in the Dark ( 1988 )
A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
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Movie: Heavenly Creatures ( 1994 )
Two teenage girls share a unique bond: their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
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Movie: Boys Don't Cry ( 2000 )
A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.
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Movie: Foxcatcher ( 2015 )
U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.
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Movie: Team Foxcatcher ( 2016 )
Documentary 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.
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Movie: Zodiac ( 2007 )
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
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Movie: Monster ( 2004 )
The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted.
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Movie: At Close Range ( 1986 )
Reunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.
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Movie: Midnight Express ( 1978 )
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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Movie: The Unquiet Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg ( 1978 )
An examination of the Rosenbergs, who were executed at Sing Sing Prison in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States.
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Movie: The Last King of Scotland ( 2007 )
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
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Movie: Helter Skelter ( 1976 )
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and 'control' committed numerous murders.
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Movie: Shooting Dogs ( 2006 )
A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Movie: Hotel Rwanda ( 2005 )
Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
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Movie: Shake Hands with the Devil ( 2007 )
The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
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Movie: Boy A ( 2008 )
The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.
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Movie: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ( 2007 )
Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
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Movie: Owning Mahowny ( 2003 )
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
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Movie: Capote ( 2006 )
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
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Movie: Lizzie ( 2018 )
A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.
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Movie: Small Sacrifices ( 1989 )
On the 19th of May 1983 Diane Downs stops at the McKenzie-Williamette-Hospital and cries for help. She is wounded on her arm and her three children are also wounded seriously. She says that a stranger shot at them but the investigation of detective Welch bring out that Diane is a liar.
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Movie: The Burning Bed ( 1984 )
A battered wife sets the bed on fire with her husband in it.
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Movie: Stander ( 2003 )
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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Movie: The Accused ( 1988 )
After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
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Movie: Jonestown: Paradise Lost ( 2007 )
Cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass-suicide.
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Movie: Escobar: Paradise Lost ( 2015 )
In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar.
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Movie: Blow ( 2001 )
The story of how George Jung, along with the MedellĂ­n Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
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Movie: Star 80 ( 1984 )
A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous.
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Movie: Patty Hearst ( 1988 )
In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
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Movie: Dirty Little Billy ( 1972 )
A more realistic, based-on-reality, unsensationalistic portrayal of the gritty early years of one of the most famous Wild West outlaws in history, Billy the Kid.
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Movie: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 )
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels..
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Movie: Wanted: The Sundance Woman ( 1976 )
The Sundance Kids widow Etta Place joins up with Pancho Villa.
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Movie: Charles Manson: The Funeral ( 2019 )
The grandson of notorious killer Charles Manson embarks on an unusual journey to arrange the late cult leader's funeral.
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Movie: Longford ( 2006 )
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
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Movie: Van Diemen's Land ( 2009 )
Alexander Pearce, Australia's notorious convict, escaped Macquarie Harbour in 1822, finding the harsh Australian wilderness and abandoning hope in the harsh Australian wilderness.
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Movie: Gotti ( 1996 )
John Gotti rises to head the powerful Gambino crime family before being convicted in 1992 of racketeering and murder.
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Movie: The Heineken Kidnapping ( 2011 )
A bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
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TV Show: Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle ( 2018 )
Jim Jones transforms from a charismatic preacher and champion of civil rights into an egomaniacal demagogue and leads the biggest mass suicide in American history; based on the book "The Road to Jonestown" by investigative journalist Jeff Guinn.
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Movie: Murder: No Apparent Motive ( 1984 )
Documentary about serial killers and FBI Behavioral Sciences Profilers. Interviews with Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy as well as crime victims and law enforcement officials. Includes some Dramatic Recreations.
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Movie: The Government Inspector ( 2005 )
Peter Kosminsky's powerful factual drama about the Iraq dossier row and the subsequent death of Dr David Kelly, one of the top government experts on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Movie: I Shot Andy Warhol ( 1996 )
The story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but after he repeatedly ignored her, she shot him.
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Movie: Fat Man and Little Boy ( 1989 )
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.
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Movie: The Killing Fields ( 1985 )
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
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Movie: The Wizard of Lies ( 2017 )
The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history.
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Movie: The Weather Underground ( 2003 )
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
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Movie: An American Crime ( 2007 )
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
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Movie: Jon Venables: What Went Wrong? ( 2011 )
In 1993, Jon Venables was one of two 10-year-olds who abducted, tortured, and murdered 2-year-old James Bulger. Since his release in 2001, Venables has been found in possession of child porn on several occasions. This program examines his case.
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Movie: The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done? ( 2018 )
Key individuals involved in the trial of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables for the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger are brought together 25 years on to debate the verdict.
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Movie: All the President's Men ( 1976 )
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
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Movie: All the President's Men Revisited ( 2013 )
Looks back at Watergate, the original game changer of America politics. How has Watergate changed the Presidency? What effect has the scandal had on our political leaders? And has hope and optimism forever been replaced in our national dialogue by doubt and cynicism? 2013 marks 40 years since 1973 - Watergate's most pivotal year. Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernst...Read all
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Movie: Schindler's List ( 1994 )
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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Movie: The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret ( 2018 )
Powerful, personal and uncensored, The Reckoning explores the most explosive scandal in pop culture's history: sexual misconduct in Hollywood.
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Movie: Bully ( 2001 )
A pack of naĂŻve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanour has proven too much.
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Movie: Breach ( 2007 )
FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
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Movie: Wonderland ( 2003 )
In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.
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Movie: Matewan ( 1987 )
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community in 1920 West Virginia, brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
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Movie: Cleveland Abduction ( 2015 )
A single mother, who becomes the first victim of kidnapper Ariel Castro, finds herself trapped in his home for 11 years, where she eventually becomes a friend and sister to two other women who are taken captive by Castro.
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Movie: The Confessions of Bernhard Goetz ( 1987 )
Shows uncensored portions of the highly emotional Dec. 1984 videotaped confession of Bernhard Goetz, known as the "subway vigilante", who opened fire on four teenagers he feared were about to rob him on a New York subway train. Also discusses Goetz's attempted murder trial at which he was subsequently acquitted.
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Movie: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. ( 2000 )
A cinematic portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer and holocaust denier.
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Movie: Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman ( 2006 )
The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
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Movie: Cry Freedom ( 1987 )
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.
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Movie: Sometimes in April ( 2005 )
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
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Movie: Molly's Game ( 2018 )
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
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Movie: The Hurricane ( 2000 )
The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Movie: Loving Pablo ( 2018 )
A journalist strikes up a romantic relationship with notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Movie: Just, Melvin: Just Evil ( 2000 )
An in-depth look at the director James Ronald Whitney's family history of incest spanning at least three generations and the devastating consequences that include drug abuse and alcoholism.
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Movie: Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 )
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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Movie: The Executioner's Song ( 1982 )
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
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TV Show: I Know My First Name is Steven ( 1989 )
This is the true story of a little boy lost - and found. And of the horrors that happened in between. Seven-year-old Steven Stayner was taken on his way home from school by a degenerate who convinced the boy his parents had abandoned him. Subjected to years of lies and sexual abuse, Steven was numbed into submission. Then, when Steven was 14, his abductor brought home five-year-old Timmy - and Steven found the courage to escape with the child, whose tragic future he could foresee only too well. Could he find his real family? And, if he did, could they ever be a family again? I Know My First Name is Steven will break your heart, then heal it.
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Movie: Rush ( 1992 )
Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.
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Movie: Auto Focus ( 2002 )
The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.
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Movie: The Challenger Disaster ( 2013 )
Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration.
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Movie: Challenger ( 1990 )
New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe joins six other astronauts on the tragic 1986 space-shuttle flight.
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Movie: Loose Change ( 2005 )
An exploration of the viewpoint that the September 11, 2001 attacks were planned by the United States government.
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Movie: Missing ( 1982 )
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
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Movie: The Bling Ring ( 2013 )
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
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Movie: World Trade Center ( 2006 )
Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
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Movie: The Frozen Ground ( 2013 )
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
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Movie: JFK ( 1991 )
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
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Movie: Snowden ( 2016 )
The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
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Movie: Killer: A Journal of Murder ( 1996 )
A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.
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Movie: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 )
Wealthy Sunny von BĂĽlow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
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Movie: Indictment: The McMartin Trial ( 1995 )
Lawyers and the media argue the alleged child abuse at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California.
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Movie: Bombshell ( 2019 )
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.