Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) shared own list
Oct 19, 2017
Hidden among the genre’s vast selection of bad reenactments, gleeful-sounding narrators, and disgusting, exploitative dreck, you’ll find quite a few worthwhile productions. Here's what's available:
Partners in Crime - Season 1
TV Season
From fingerprint analysts to computer experts to dentists, forensic specialists help authorities...
True crime crime documentary
Cold Justice - Season 1
8.0
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Think "Cold Case" meets "CSI" with a bit of "Rizzoli & Isles" mixed in, then make it real. That's...
The Keepers - Season 1
8.3
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From director Ryan White (The Case Against 8, Good Ol’ Freda) comes The Keepers, a riveting...
True crime crime documentary
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
6.3
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“TIME: The Kalief Browder Story” is a documentary series chronicling the life of a 16 year-old...
True crime crime documentary
The Confession Tapes - Season 1
8.6
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This true crime documentary series investigates cases where people convicted of murder claim their...
True crime crime documentary
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City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
Book
Epidemiologist and Canadian National Magazine Award winner Dan Werb's CITY OF OMENS, a public-health...
True Fiction (2018)
Movie
An MP's son-in-law and mayoral candidate takes a trip with his girlfriend to a vacation home and...
Erika (17789 KP) rated The Minds of Billy Milligan in Books
Sep 26, 2019
It seems like there are two camps in the psychology field, ones that believe in Multiple Personalities (now DID), and ones that do not. While at some points I thought to myself, surely, this couldn't be true. But, the brain is weird, and I believe it. I was also hesitant to believe a lot of the details because a)conversations were completely recreated and b) the author was the dude that wrote Flowers for Algernon.
This begins as a true crime novel, then goes into a narrative of Billy Milligan's various lives, then what happened after he told the author his story. I preferred the true crime section to all else, but it was all intensely interesting.
Now, the Split connection; there were some personalities straight up lifted from Milligan's case, and the fact there were 24. Split took a lot from this book.
Overall, an interesting, and at times, unsettling, read.
Lizzie (2018)
7.0
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Lizzie is an upcoming American biographical thriller film directed by Craig William Macneill and...
drama crime
Il Traditore (The Traitor) (2019)
5.0
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Il Traditore tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta (Favino), a former crime boss in the Italian...
At the end of each episode (starting fairly recently) the girls have a segment where they say what they have been "killin'" each week, to provide a little lift at the end of the episode, and make the world appear a little less depressing.
Altogether, a cracking little podcast, definitely worth a listen.
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer in TV
Jan 8, 2020
At only 3 episodes; unlike many recent documentaries shown on Netflix, this one didn't feel drawn out. We are saved from having to actually witness any of the horrors they saw in the online videos covered (although if you are sensitive to animal cruelty and violence they do describe what occurs in the videos which is devastatingly brutal.) The documentary is narrated to a large part by some real-life heroes on a quest and the emotion they felt really comes across.
I had no idea when I started watching this where it was going but it was a jaw-dropping experience.
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) in Movies
Jun 26, 2019
It’s pretty much all told via interviews with Jan (the victim) and her family with little from other sources. Considering most of it comes from their lips and a lot sounds incredibly naive (even for 1970s) it has a very hard to believe feel to it. Needed a lot of development on some points barely mentioned.