A cyclist tries doping and stumbles into the Russian state programme; his source flees to LA.
The CIA fakes a sci-fi movie to smuggle six diplomats out of Tehran in 1980.
The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.
A Canadian crew traces what happened to a nineteen-year-old who disappeared driving through Colorado.
The Munich Olympics hostage crisis of 1972, minute by minute, including the interview with the surviving gunman.
A fifteen-year-old is arrested for a Jacksonville murder and his public defender takes the case apart.
Charlize Theron unrecognisable as Aileen Wuornos, in the performance that won her the Oscar.
Errol Morris re-enacts a Dallas cop killing and gets an innocent man freed.
Eight hours on Simpson, race and Los Angeles; the documentary that won an Oscar as a film.
Laura Poitras in the Hong Kong hotel room as Edward Snowden hands over the files.
Robert Durst on a hot mic: "killed them all, of course"; the true-crime series that solved a case.
Steven Avery, exonerated then convicted again; the series that made true crime a Netflix genre.
Alexei Navalny phones his own poisoner; the documentary made before his death.
Two FBI agents interview serial killers in the 1970s; Fincher's Ed Kemper scenes.
The hunt for Korea's first serial killer in the 1980s; Bong Joon-ho's ending stare.
A Seoul cabbie drives a German reporter into the Gwangju uprising of 1980.
A Black detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan by phone in 1972; Spike Lee's Oscar for the script.
Somali pirates board a container ship; Tom Hanks' last scene with the navy medic.
Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's surgery; "Attica!"
The unsolved San Francisco case, told through the people it consumed.
Jack the Ripper as a royal conspiracy, with 40 pages of footnotes; Moore and Campbell's Victorian London.
The Osage murders of the 1920s and the birth of the FBI; Grann before Scorsese.
A mother of ten disappeared in Belfast in 1972 and what the Troubles did; Patrick Radden Keefe.
The Sackler family and OxyContin; Keefe's dynasty of the opioid crisis.
Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.
The 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the serial killer who built a hotel beside it.
The murder of a Kansas farm family and the two men who did it; Capote's non-fiction novel.
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