Documentaries
Documentaries and docuseries: what to watch, and the real story each one tells.
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Dear Zachary (2008) Begins as a Love Letter and Turns Into a Crushing Tragedy
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) began as a home-movie love letter to Zachary Turner, the infant son of…
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Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Captured Timothy Treadwell’s Death by Bear on Tape, Then Refused to Play It
Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man (2005) is built from more than 100 hours of footage Timothy Treadwell shot over thirteen summers living among brown bears…
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The Man Netflix’s ‘Death of a Pastor’s Wife’ Painted as John-Paul Miller’s Right-Hand Man Says He Barely Knew Him
“I never witnessed John Paul abuse Mica,” Mark Kaufman wrote in a statement addressing nearly every role Netflix’s “Death of a Pastor’s Wife” put…
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A New Docuseries on OJ Simpon’s 2005 Prank Show Claims He Got Too Comfortable With Prank Victims and Started Discussing the Murders
In 2005 — a decade after the murders that made him one of the most notorious figures in America — O.J. Simpson filmed a…
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Death of the Pastor’s Wife: John-Paul MIller’s First Wife Says Mica’s Account Matched Her Own
Death of the Pastor’s Wife on Netflix follows Mica Miller, a Myrtle Beach worship leader who met pastor John-Paul Miller at Solid Rock Church…
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The Creepiest Part of Death of the Pastor’s Wife on Netflix Was Left Out of the Docuseries
Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife spent three episodes on John-Paul Miller’s marriage to Mica and they don’t even mention some of the worst…
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The Man From ‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’ on Netflix is Still Preaching in Myrtle Beach
Death of the Pastor’s Wife is the three-part Netflix documentary that shot up the charts after its August 26, 2026 release. It shows the…
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A Man Took an Ancestry Test to Find His Biological Father. It Turned Out to Be Charles Manson
For most of his life, Daniel Arguelles had wondered who his biological father was. The answer, when it finally came, was one he wasn’t…
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Dolph Lundgren Started Making a Documentary About His Career, Then He Was Told He Had Three Years Left to Live
Don’t worry, Dolph says that he is now cancer-free. But the life-changing drama of when he was told that he had two to three…
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‘Don’t Date Brandon’ — An Explosive Docuseries Shows How Two Women Took Down Their Master Manipulator Ex
Amber met the “handsome” charming Brandon on Tinder in 2013 and, after six weeks of dating, he proposed.
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Netflix’s ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Is a Heartbreaking Portrait of an America Where People Hate Each Other
Susan Lorincz didn’t want children playing in the grassy area near her rental unit.
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She Called Him Dad, the World Called Him the BTK Killer
In a true-crime landscape oversaturated with fascination on serial killers, My Father, the BTK Killer is as unsettling as it is harrowing.
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Two Decades Later, Reddit Is Still Losing It Over a Documentary so Sickening They Can’t Even Watch It Twice
If you have faith in the American justice system… I’d like to check in after you watch this documentary.
