Movies like Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

20 movies like Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, ordered by similarity : The Eyes of Tammy Faye(2000), The Farm: Angola, USA(1998), Love Crimes of Kabul(2011), Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer(2003), Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart(2014), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996), The Thin Blue Line(1988), McLibel(2005), For Sama(2019), Mugabe and the White African(2009), West of Memphis(2012), Scottsboro: An American Tragedy(2000) ...

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Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

Nick Broomfield explores the media circus surrounding the case of America's first textbook female serial killer.

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye

A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker. Traces their rise: her teen marriage to ... See full summary »

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The Farm: Angola, USA

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

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Love Crimes of Kabul

LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing "moral crimes" such as premarital sex and running away from home. As we follow them from ... See full summary »

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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Nick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.

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Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart

A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the ... See full summary »

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

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The Thin Blue Line

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

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McLibel

McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

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For Sama

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

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Mugabe and the White African

An intimate and moving account of one family's extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.

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West of Memphis

An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

The history of the "Scottsboro Boys," a group of African American men who were victims of a racist miscarriage of justice that became a national controversy.

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Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother

Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda ... See full summary »

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16 Shots

A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

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Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed ... See full summary »

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The Art of Political Murder

An investigation into the truth behind the murder of Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi, who was killed in 1998 just days after trying to hold the country's military accountable for the atrocities committed during its civil war.

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I Am Evidence

An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.

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Hoop Dreams

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

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Capturing the Friedmans

Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.

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Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.

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