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The 20 Best True-Crime Documentaries on Max
HBO and its sister networks have a rich history of producing compelling documentaries about bad people doing bad things.
Few do that better than this stunning story of Michelle McNamara, a writer who became obsessed with online true-crime culture and eventually uncovered details about the Golden State Killer that helped lead to his unmasking. The truth is that Hollywood doesn’t protect child performers like it should, and this heartbreaking documentary about toxic and criminal behavior around the Nickelodeon original programming of the ’90s and ’00s will make you wonder if they shouldn’t shut the whole industry down. Director Dan Reed perfectly structures his film, focusing on the awful shooting of Sandy Hook first and then detailing how Jones and his idiotic cohorts at InfoWars distorted grief for profit.
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