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16 True-Crime Documentaries Worth Watching for Genre Fans

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Mia Barzilay Freund, Daisy Jones

2d ago· 5 min readenReview
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Summary

A curated listicle highlighting 16 true-crime documentaries worth watching, discussing the genre's explosion in popularity since hits like Making a Murderer and Serial, and noting that while the market is overcrowded, there are still well-made documentaries that expose miscarriages of justice and explore dark secrets.

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Curating a list of the best true crime documentaries is no simple task.
The genre, which has exploded in the decade or so since Netflix's Emmy-winning Making a Murderer and the release of podcasts like Serial, has become somewhat overcrowded.
If you're a fan of the genre and fancy yourself an amateur sleuth, there are plenty of well-made true-crime documentaries that are very much worth watching.
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Looking for something to make your pulse race and your hair stand on end? The best true-crime documentaries and docu-series crawl with dark secrets and shocking twists, whether their subject is a missing child, a dead roommate, or a criminal cover-up.

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