Movies like Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

20 movies like Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, ordered by similarity : 16 Shots(2019), Tales of the Grim Sleeper(2014), Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart(2014), The Brandon Teena Story(1998), The Art of Political Murder(2019), The Thin Blue Line(1988), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996), Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired(2008), Standard Operating Procedure(2008), Shepherds and Butchers(2016), Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer(1992), Beware the Slenderman(2016) ...

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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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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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Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.

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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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The Brandon Teena Story

Documentary about a multiple murder in rural Nebraska in 1993.

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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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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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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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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

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Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

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Shepherds and Butchers

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

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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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Beware the Slenderman

The mythos of a faceless, digital-age bogeyman known as Slenderman was created on the Internet, but his influence was felt in the real world when two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into the woods for a brutal murder.

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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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Food, Inc.

An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.

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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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Dark Days

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.

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Unlocking the Cage

Between 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U.S. territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U.S.

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The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

A freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison where he discovers the true meaning of liberation.

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No Stone Unturned

An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.

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