Documentaries
Documentaries and docuseries: what to watch, and the real story each one tells.
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Netflix’s New Natalee Holloway Documentary Shows Joran Van Der Sloot Taking Cash for a False Lead
Netflix’s new documentary “Taken: Natalee Holloway” includes previously unreleased footage of a May 2010 FBI-led sting in Aruba that captured Joran van der Sloot…
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Obsession Director Curry Barker Pitched Nathan Fielder on Working Together After His Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
Curry Barker wanted to work with Nathan Fielder enough to ask him directly. After watching Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, the…
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A24 Is Giving Away a See-Through Popcorn Bucket for Its Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
A24 is offering a free transparent popcorn bucket to eligible buyers of tickets for its Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything. The offer…
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People Who Met Elizabeth Holmes Kept Describing the Same Unblinking Stare
A 2014 profile of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes noted that she “rarely blinks.” Years before You Can See Everything used prolonged close-ups of her…
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Halloween’s Danielle Harris Filmed a Documentary for 3 Years About What Fame Never Showed
Danielle Harris spent 3 years filming a documentary about a life that includes a 2-decade stalking ordeal, her father’s death in an unsolved car…
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A Therapist Watched Elizabeth Holmes’s Head Closely and Noticed She Nods at Her Own Words
Watch Elizabeth Holmes’s head closely, and you’ll notice something that licensed psychotherapist Elliott Connie couldn’t stop thinking about after his second viewing of You…
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A 1966 Reel Hidden in a Safe Has the Bigfoot Filmmaker’s Son Saying ‘My Dad Lied to Me’
A 40-second reel filmed in 1966 is at the center of a new documentary’s case that the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage was staged. Capturing…
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Mackenzie Shirilla Drove into a Brick Wall at 100 MPH Without Braking, and Netflix’s the Crash Has Her First Interview from Prison
A teenager floored a Toyota Camry into a brick wall at 100 mph and survived. Her boyfriend and his friend, in the seats next…
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‘Clown Panic’ Documents the String of Viral, Creepy Clown Sightings That Took Place in 2016, and It’s Now Streaming on Hulu
It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since the clown sightings happened. But that’s how long it’s been. Long enough for a documentary…
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Maya Annik Bedward Addresses Hollywood’s Distortion of Haitian Zombie Traditions in ‘Black Zombie’, Now on VOD
Directed by Maya Annik Bedward, Black Zombie examines how the popular perception of zombies through the Hollywood lens has distorted, sensationalized, and erased parts…
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Netflix’s ‘The Widower: ’Til Death Do Us Part’ Traces the Case of Thomas Randolph, Who Married 6 Times, Lost 4 Wives and Was Convicted of Murdering His Sixth
Thomas Randolph said he shot the intruder who’d killed his wife, Sharon Causse. Investigators concluded he’d hired that man to kill her, then killed…
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What Makes ‘Archive X’ More Than an Alien-Abduction Documentary? Its Episodes Also Explore Alleged Telepathy, Near-Death Experiences and Speaking With the Dead
Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena opens with 2 nonspeaking autistic girls who are presented as communicating telepathically with their mothers and describing a realm called…
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‘The Pet Cemetery Murders’ Is True Crime With a Supernatural Twist
THE PET CEMETERY MURDERS is true crime with a supernatural twist, making it perfect for the Halloween season. First of all, no, this does…
