Tag: Documentaries

The top 20 true crime documentaries to watch on demand right now: Our critics sift through hundreds of options to choose the shows worth watching

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Infamous murders, miscarriages of justice, cruel conmen and evil cults – they’re all here in our unmissable selection of 20 true crime documentaries available to watch now. 

Body On The Beach: What Happened To Annie?

True-crime documentary series investigating a suicide in Scotland that doesn’t add up

Year: 2023

Certificate: 15

Watch now on BBC iPlayer

This true-crime documentary has a tantalising opener that hints at a cover-up, and from there we hear compelling reasons why the friends and family

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Career makeover! How ex reality TV star Zara McDermott, who’s heading for Strictly, went from Love Island and MIC to hosting documentaries and fronting campaigns with Kate

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The first episode of a new BBC documentary about the death of teenager Gaia Pope in November 2017 – and how society failed her – aired this week. 

The hard-hitting three-parter delves deep into Gaia’s disappearance, and the reasons behind her tragic death from hypothermia on perilous Dancing Ledge in coastal Dorset.

Presenting it is former Essex reality TV star Zara McDermott, the series marks the latest string in her documentary bow.

In 2021, the 26-year-old’s own story on revenge

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Kyle Richards producing documentary on ‘friend’ Morgan Wade

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Kyle Richards’ friendship with Morgan Wade is only getting deeper.

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star is working on a documentary about the country singer, TMZ reported after the duo were spotted filming at Belly Up in Aspen, Colo., Sunday night.

Audience members at Wade’s concert were asked to sign releases allowing the footage to be used in a production, according to the outlet.

Richards is reportedly an executive producer on the project in addition to appearing on camera.

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A look at all the murder mysteries and cold cases that were solved thanks to documentaries and shows

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Between the new Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix and the gripping show The Watcher, crime documentaries and retellings have swept the nation in recent months – and it’s certainly not a new phenomenon. For years, shows, movies, and podcasts depicting some of the most famous (and horrific) crimes have risen in popularity – and they sometimes inspire people watching at home to turn into mock detectives and sleuths right in their living rooms.

In fact, many times over the years,

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I’m A Filmmaker Who Documented A Family In Syria. I Never Imagined I’d Orchestrate Their Escape.

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It was a crisp April morning. Above perfectly manicured tulips, the Swiss flag fluttered in the breeze. A motorcade of black Mercedes-Benzes with tinted windows and diplomatic plates drove by me. Before the all-too-familiar badged guard approached asking for my film permit, I zoomed in on Hanadi, the lead subject of my documentary film, as she walked toward the security entrance of the United Nations’ European headquarters. Following closely behind her were her three young daughters: Ritaj, Bissan and Limar.

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Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust

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When we begin “The U.S. and the Holocaust”—a six-and-a-half-hour, three-part documentary about America’s actions during one of history’s greatest atrocities, the Nazis’ attempted extermination of the Jews—we find ourselves in 1933 Frankfurt, where a bourgeois German-Jewish family is going out for an afternoon promenade. This is the Frank family, whose youngest daughter, Anne, has yet to begin the diary, chronicling her days in hiding until her capture and eventual death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, that will one day make

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How Victoria’s Secret Created the American Fantasy Woman

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The new three-part documentary series “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons,” on Hulu, opens with a backstage scene. There are only a few minutes left before the lingerie company’s annual fashion show is slated to begin, and, as scads of photographers mill about, the supermodels set to walk the runway grin and pout for the cameras. With their cascading curls and sculpted cheekbones, their bodies clad in skimpy underthings, these so-called Angels—the company’s name for its brand ambassadors—embody a fantasy world

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The Best Documentaries on Amazon Prime Video Right Now (May 2021)

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While you may not literally learn something new every day, you can certainly try to be watching a documentary every day. Thanks to the extensive on-demand repository from streaming services like Amazon Prime Video, you can explore the world from your couch any time you want. From the natural world to the heavens above, centuries in the past to ideas forging the future, Amazon is packed with documentaries for any mood. We’ve sorted through the streamer’s massive library to show

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