Do you like detective series? What about investigations written not by talented screenwriters, but by life itself? This list includes 5 action-packed documentary series about mysteries, murders, kidnappings and scams that actually happened.
1. "Oath"
“Drop everything and watch The Oath right now,” writes The Huffington Post right in the title of its review. And for a reason: these 9 episodes fit a seemingly fantastic story about personal growth trainings, which in fact turned out to be a springboard to hell on earth. Under the guise of developing seminars for women, there was a real corporation of evil - sexual slavery, labor hard labor and a financial pyramid in one bottle.
The creators of this documentary series not only tell about the course of the investigation into the activities of the network company NXIVM, but also pay a lot of attention to the victims of the criminal scheme, trying to understand how adequate adults fall for the bait of scammers and turn into obedient servants.
2. "Secrets of a Billionaire"
Back in 2009, the feature film "All the Best" was released with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in the lead roles. Its plot focused on the story of a rich guy who fell in love with a girl “not by status”, who suspiciously disappears just when the passions in the relationship begin to heat up. And, although many believe that an influential man is involved in the disappearance of his beloved, he is not shown any announcements.
The prototype of the rich man on the screen was then a very real person - Robert Durst, in whose life there were enough unsolved murders and mysterious disappearances for a whole series. Its HBO and released in 2015: "Secrets of a Billionaire" is a stunning immersion into the biography of a very influential man who has always masterly avoided any persecution and accusations.
3. "I love you, now die"
Is it possible to love a person and at the same time wish him death? How deeply can a word written in SMS hurt? And is the attacks of ill-wishers on the network as harmless as it might seem?
This investigation, which was able to fit into two almost hour-long films, focuses on the high-profile case of the suicide of an American teenager. During the last few months of his life, he regularly received controversial messages from his girlfriend. In them, the beloved assured the guy that he must die. What motivated her, what responsibility for cyberbullying is provided for by the law, and can someone who did not pull the trigger, but just wrote a couple of lines be considered a criminal? Take a look and make a conclusion yourself!
4. "McMillions"
While someone is skeptical about the annual "Monopoly" promotion at McDonald's and does not even pay attention to the prize certificates, someone else is making crazy money from it.
At the center of this documentary series is the investigation of a scam that cost the famous fast food chain millions of dollars. All that turned out to be necessary to build a fraudulent empire around the McDonald's promotion was a security breach and the extraordinary intelligence of one employee.
5. "I will disappear into darkness"
There are well-known serial maniacs, and there are not so much. And this does not at all depend on the number of victims and the degree of cruelty of the offender. For example, Joseph Deangelo killed at least 10 people, and another 50 became victims of sexual violence on his part, but even during the period of these atrocities, the mysterious "Assassin from the Golden State" was practically not talked about, and the villain was hardly looked for.
But the journalist Michelle McNamara was very worried about the search for a maniac - so much so that the woman spent all her free time on her own investigation. Based on the book that McNamara has released, this exciting documentary is created.