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murderer?

Do you know of any?

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Soupçons (2004) is a very good documentary-crime series that doesn't get mentioned often.

Some films: The Thin Blue Line, the Paradise Lost movies, Capturing the Friedmans, Murder on a Sunday Morning, The Central Park Five

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Nice! Looks good.

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Yeah it's quite a good little series, you get a real sense of what it's like going through a murder trial - the conferences with lawyers & planning of the defence case, the courtroom arguments, the media circus, the effect on families etc.

Some other good crime/documentary films I've since remembered:

Into the Abyss
The Imposter
The Act of Killing
Dear Zachary
Brother's Keeper
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

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I second several of Rmiles' picks: The Thin Blue Line, the Paradise Lost trilogy, Capturing the Friedmans and The Central Park Five are all good ones that I've seen among those, and can vouch for here.

A recent one that was pretty solid and in this ballpark is The Fear of 13 (2015). It's a documentary film, not in a mini-series format though.






Fighting the frizzies, at 11.

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Paradise lost trilogy is good, I don't remember if I have seen the fear of 13 weirdly enough. It does look familiar.

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Yeah The Fear of 13 isn't bad either, people who are into The Thin Blue Line will generally like that one too.


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Better than the film?

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