Here, selected by yours truly and compiled from Times coverage, are 50 of the best true-crime documentary films and TV series you can stream right now. The filmmakers behind these productions have solved crimes, freed the wrongly accused, exposed the guilty and given voice to victims and survivors.
Some are bar-setting films from master documentarians, others are necessary works from filmmakers who uncovered incredible stories. Some were simply too juicy to pass up. In short, I left them out because I found problematic the artistic license both series used to make their point. Go ahead. Arrest me. I get it. Sleuth away. The Murdaughs. The prominent Hampton County, S. The death of Mallory Beach during a reckless boating collision. Expect a second season. But after his death, a U.
The film shows how many in the U. In the hands of neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch, surgical tools were deadly weapons. The bad doctor now serving a life sentence injured, maimed or killed 33 of the 38 patients who trusted him with their routine spinal surgeries in the Dallas area over a two-year period in the early s.
Scarier yet, the healthcare system knew about his fatal spree but still allowed him to practice. Surgeons and nurses interviewed in the film recall in jaw-dropping detail how they continually blew the whistle on Duntsch as he continued to find employment at hospitals across the state.
A serial killer with a scalpel or simply an inept doctor with a license to kill? Watch this series and decide for yourself. Read more β Lorraine Ali. The largest mass murder and suicide in modern history is recounted in this documentary.
