Flashing between depictions of New England Patriots’ Aaron Hernandez as a rising football star with an abusive, alcoholic dad to the one we know from recent headlines-his murderous rage and his killing of his friend, Odin Lloyd, and others-audiences see how many lost lives could have been avoided if authorities had only paid attention. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandezĭirector Geno McDermott’s three-part 2020 Netflix documentary is as much a story of fame and power as it is what happens when mental illness, abuse, and repeated head injuries like the ones inflicted upon football players go unchecked.
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(Please, Netflix, don’t make us watch Josef Fritzl: Story of a Monster.)īelow, we help separate the truly compelling offerings from their trashier counterparts with our list-including movies, TV shows, and miniseries-of the best true crime documentaries available on Netflix.ġ. Still, this is always a tricky genre to navigate: for every noble award-winner like The Thin Blue Line, a lurid alternative is likely to pop up in your recommendations.
Netflix in particular has made a name for itself in this niche, acquiring a strong slate of indie docs and producing some of their own, higher-profile works. There’s even been a rise in parodies of the genre, like American Vandal or Steve Martin’s Only Murders in the Building. From Making a Murderer to O.J.: Made in America to The Jinx, the last few years could be considered a Golden Age for telling real-life stories of misery. More than 50 years after the publishing of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre, we’re experiencing a boom in the popularity of true crime, especially in film and television.
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