A list of true-crime documentaries that focus on principled reportage and give equal weight to victims and perpetrators. Includes a recommendation for 'The Central Park Five' (2012), a case of wrongful conviction and racist law tactics.
The best true-crime documentaries bring principled reportage to the intrigue they chronicle, giving equal or greater weight to the victims as to the perpetrators whose psychology seizes our collective imagination. This list attempts to encapsulate the format’s varying modes, from serious digests to seedy diversions; although one person’s true-crime trash is another’s treasure, these recommendations steer clear of the genre’s tawdriest impulses.
All of our picks are available to stream or rent somewhere, and when you’re done, you can find dozens more at the ready. The Central Park Five (2012) One of the most devastating wrongful convictions of the 20th century put five innocent Black and Latino teenagers behind bars. Police coerced confessions out of them after a white woman was attacked and raped in Central Park in 1989, but the DNA evidence that exonerated the group more than a decade later has made the case an exemplar of racist law tactic
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