r/NetflixDocumentaries

This story is crazy and Boeing absolutely sucks.
The pay that 3 CEOs made during the scope of this doc is ridiculous, over $500 million.
I feel for the victims as well as the employees who tried and tried to do the right thing.

It’s a great, frustrating documentary.

There’s a show on Netflix called People Interviews with lots of different people. Jens post prison interview is her saying she takes responsibility for what she’s done while at the same time saying she didn’t know people were hurt and that she didn’t do her due diligence on what might have been happening without her knowledge. Then the interviewer asks about any interactions with Ghislaine Maxwell and she answers that she and ‘Lizzy’ Holmes tried to avoid her because she didn’t seem remorseful. Wow, such a ‘Housewife’ thing to say, she sounded like Teresa Guidice and others trying to save face as if the rest of us are dumb. Anyone else see this? It’s got lots of great interviews too so I think I’ll go watch the one with Dolly Parton to wash away the ick I’m feeling right now.

I feel like I can only ever find good plot-based documentaries, like True Crime or Medical Cases. What are your favorite informational documents?

I mean no story, no characters, just a bunch of information.

Did you watch it? What do you think?

In my opinion, they dragged the story a little. This was not a mystery, police solved it in one day. The diaries explained everything. I think the narration was too nice to Lalit. We don't really know if he really had psychosis or if he was just lying to manipulate his family.

I just don't understand how they call it accidental suicide if grandma and kids were probably killed first and forced to hang? If Lalit promised them he would untie them, and then he didn't, wouldn't this make him a murder?

Ok, Aussie here so I want to get out there and talk about the Aussie Icon turned villain that is called Raygun. I'm assuming everyone knows the "story". She accidentally got "selected" to do break dancing at the Olympics, even though she mostly taught about the sociology of break dancing and it's social context in non white communities at university.

She was terrible at the Olympics. Pretty horrifying actually. Immediately became an Aussie Icon for having a go and making fun of herself afterwards. She could have floated along on that claim to fame and survived the very valid questions asked about how she got selected to participate in the Olympics when she was completely unqualified and there are very, VERY talented not privileged, not white female break dancers in Australia.

She could have embraced the memes. She could have embraced THE MUSICAL that was written about her. She could have continued to be an Aussie Icon for her absolutely terrible attempt at dancing at the Olympics and treating an opportunity that other people would have killed for as a joke.

But no, like every white woman that has ever been accused of cultural appropriation, she doubled down. She claimed she was being abused because people, very rightfully, made fun of her, and then used her position to SUE venues to stop comedians making fun of her in stage shows. She litigated to have the entire RAYGUN: THE MUSICAL blocked from happening. She refused to let her "likness" be used to raise money for charity. None of these are actually very Aussie Icon things to do.

So, we hate her. Bitch could have used her position to highlight very real, very apparent gaps in how Indigenous Australians (some of who are most excellent break dancers) are affected by racism, she could have let charities that raised money using her likeness to USE that money for charity. She didn't. She's the embodiment of everything wrong with privileged racist white people in Australia. And she can't take a joke.

So when you watch the Raygun doco on Netflix, the doco her management team spear headed to try and somehow make her imagine more palatable, please remember that Aussies hate her for very good reasons. She wasn't bullied, she wasn't threatened, she was legitimately made fun of because she can't fucking break dance and her "selection" for the Olympics was a joke that highlights some very big fucking problems in the way professional sporting bodies gatekeep access to the Olympics only for the people that can afford it.

Don't get online and tell us we mistreated the villain at the centre of the story, when she had the opportunity to embrace the absurd and chose tantrum instead.

I am fascinated by cults- no matter what religion (if any) they start with. Can you recommend some good cult documentaries that may be particulary "odd" or fascinating or different from the usual? I have access to most streaming platforms.

I like stuff like:
Shiny Happy People
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
Escaping Twin Flames
Wild Wild Country
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults

I’m looking for YouTube coverage of some of the popular crimes/scandals/etc that do a better job than the docs on the big streaming platforms, like the one that covers the Toxic Live Story account. I’m more interested in scandals or crimes that don’t involve rape or murder, but am open to any suggestions. Thanks in advance!

Don’t get me wrong - you can’t generally hold parents responsible for their children’s misdeeds, even with the best upbringing, parental influence is limited.

But from what was shown in the Netflix documentary, they didn’t really raise her at all. I’ve rarely seen parents enable bad behavior to such an extent. The fact that they watched their child doing drugs every day without seeing a problem with it. It’s appalling.

It is truly shocking how she apparently never had any boundaries set for her. And even after this brutal killing, her parents act as if she did absolutely nothing wrong. It is one thing to stand by your child, but quite another to act as if it were no big deal. The way her mother talked about Davion... It leaves you truly dumbfounded.

*The crash

I was expecting the story to be told through audio recordings from Manson. Instead. It was just bad dramatizations, and third party narrations of Vincent Bugliousi's version of events.

The only redeeming quality was new interviews with a few of "his girls", but that contributed nothing to what the highlight of the"Tapes" documentaries should be.

How do people get roped into this? Like how do cults exist? Throughout the whole first episode people are stating how strange yet somehow charming, "Charlie" is. At some point early on how are you not conscious enough to say "eh, probably not". Feels like there's no survival instinct on their part or no gut feeling. The women in the doc that speak on being in his family piss me off so much, they're weak individuals. Idc how "lost" you are, how don't you know right from wrong?

Hi there! So I feel like I've seen most of the popular netflix docs at this point, especially the more recent ones. There's a handful I keep seeing pop up on my homepage, but I also haven't seen really be recommended here, in all of the rec threads I read. So I wanted to post a list of ones that look interesting and see if anyone can vouch for them.

I like true crime, or true scandal, and anything that has a crazy storyline or a focus on forensics/ the investigation is a plus.

Feel free to recommend ones that arent on this list; unless they're popular and frequently recommended here because I have likely already seen them.

Suitcase Killer

Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case

Apple Cider Vinegar

The TikTok Killer

This is a Robbery

Audio & Daisy

Evil Influencer: Jodi Hildebrand (I’ve already heard a lot on this case so not necessarily interested unless the doc is just really good)

The Murder of Rachel Nickell

Dynasty: The Murdochs

The Carman Family Deaths

Til Murder Do Us Part

Web of Make Believe (I actually think I’v seen the first ep of this…can’t remember if I watched the rest)

A Deadly American Marriage

TIA!

Edit: *this documentary could be very triggering. It is very intimate and involves deaths**

2nd edit***-*** there is a fictional movie by the same name. I am not referring to the fictional movie. I am referring to the documentary.

I saw this years ago and it may be interesting to people following this case. It’s a documentary with women who experienced postpartum psychosis. I think it can still be found on Amazon Prime.

When The Bough Breaks

Finished watching newly released docu series yesterday. Arturo (the husband) makes me wanna beat him up along with his family ofc. Even after Alejandara went through all that shit Arturo still wanted a boy child.

Nobody supported that poor woman (mentally). She needs to stay the heck away from his family.

Whenever a “based on true events” film is released, the internet’s search results are flooded with the movie itself instead of a factual blog post that accurately depicts the actual events. The audience is never told which parts of the movie are fictional and which are factual, raising a significant risk of historical manipulation. What do you think?

I really don't know how to feel about this documentary. I of course I'm saddened by how greatly the societal pressures put upon Alejandra are evident in what she believed was expected of her but the dramatisation and romanticised nature of this documentary confused me.

First part of the documentary presents one side of this story and I feel fails to present us the other side to match. It seems the director's emotional bias infused the film and I feel forced to solely sympathise with Alejandra and just reckon with the facts and their loose ends. This was heartbreaking. It feels mishandled and insensitive honestly 💔

I feel wrong for thinking this but I don't know. Thoughts?

Conversations with a Killer: Charles Manson Tapes was a well told story but was poorly executed in parts. There are reenactments and the actors are shown in side by side comparisons with the actual people. So for instance, they’re preparing to show a reenactment of Manson at a campfire, so they first show the actor side by side with an actual photo of Manson. The filmmakers think I need to know who is portraying Manson., okay good to know. Here’s the poorly executed part: By the 3rd episode, at times, instead of showing a photo of the actual person they’re referring to, they show a picture of the actor portraying the actual person. No side by side, just the actor. I can’t think of any reason the filmmakers would choose to do this, it’s just odd.

Hi! The title is pretty self-explanatory. I hate dramatic reenactments with a burning passion. I'd like to watch a series focused on the investigation and the procedure. I loved the Staircase and the American Murder series and I think I've watched almost every major true crime show, so hidden gems are more than welcome!

Okay thanks, bye <3

Guys and gals of Reddit, help me find the song in the end of the documentary. It’s in Spanish, very emotional, and even my Shazam failed to find it.

Perhaps a Spanish speaker can help?