Top 20 Craziest Docuseries You Need to Binge

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[00:08] we're counting down our picks for the

[00:10] top 20 craziest docu-series you need to

[00:13] binge come here you sexy beast hi little

[00:17] man for this list we're looking at the

[00:19] best episodic TV shows that cover True

[00:21] Crime history and other real life

[00:23] stories what did you make of these shows

[00:25] let us know in the comments below

[00:28] number 20. Waco American apocalypse when

[00:31] Christ reveals himself it's going to be

[00:33] according to the book the whole time we

[00:35] were listening to David we were living

[00:37] and doing God's will there's no shortage

[00:40] of documentaries about the Waco Siege of

[00:42] 1993 but Waco American apocalypse is the

[00:45] definitive Chronicle of the subject

[00:46] suspecting the Branch Davidians an

[00:49] apocalyptic religious Cult of

[00:50] stockpiling illegal weapons the ATF

[00:53] rated their compound in Axtell Texas a

[00:55] fatal gunfight led to a 51-day Siege

[00:58] which ended in an FBI raid and a fire

[01:00] that took the lives of 76 cult members

[01:03] producer says in my ear

[01:06] it's on fire I turned around and I

[01:09] looked oh my God the whole compound had

[01:13] started to catch fire this dock stands

[01:15] out from others thanks to some cinematic

[01:17] visuals never before seen news footage

[01:19] FBI home videos and Stellar interviews

[01:22] with people involved it doesn't take

[01:24] sides but presents the story from a

[01:26] variety of angles and allows viewers to

[01:28] come to their own conclusions all the

[01:30] pain that they went through

[01:32] I can't imagine it but I think about it

[01:36] every day number 19 the confession

[01:38] killer one policeman said he makes

[01:40] Charles Manson sound like Tom Sawyer

[01:43] Henry Lee Lucas is one of the most

[01:44] notorious names in True Crime while in

[01:47] prison for three murders he confessed to

[01:49] having killed 600 people between 1975

[01:52] and 1983. you know you have a member of

[01:55] your family killed

[01:57] you want to find out the perpetrator

[02:00] and so many of them slept better because

[02:03] they felt they had found that besides

[02:07] leading to the controversial 1986 film

[02:09] Henry portrait of a serial killer his

[02:11] confessions persuaded the Texas Rangers

[02:13] to call it a day on a number of hitherto

[02:15] Unsolved cases turns out however that

[02:17] Lucas made them up the confession killer

[02:20] delves into this awful hoax including

[02:22] why it was taken so seriously and the

[02:24] Damage it caused to the reputations of

[02:26] law officials with an IQ of 87 he was

[02:29] able to convince a thousand law

[02:32] enforcement officers that he was guilty

[02:35] of 200 or whatever always crimes it's a

[02:37] fascinating look not at the crimes

[02:39] themselves but at the justice system and

[02:41] failures within it

[02:43] number 18 the family it took a long time

[02:46] before I realized just who the family

[02:49] was and the influence they have had in

[02:53] the leap of our country

[02:55] a secret of Conservative Christian group

[02:57] the family also known as the fellowship

[02:59] holds incredible power in American

[03:01] politics while its members have taken a

[03:04] vow of silence many journalists

[03:06] including executive producer Jeff

[03:08] Charlotte have exposed the

[03:09] organization's inner workings and how it

[03:11] influences political legislation in the

[03:13] United States their headquarters the

[03:15] seat of their power

[03:18] there were Congressman Senators world

[03:20] leaders an invisible organization I've

[03:23] been hiding in plain sight for over 80

[03:25] years it's an intriguing story that

[03:28] dives down some shockingly deep rabbit

[03:30] holes the truth that it reveals are

[03:32] quite disturbing and anyone interested

[03:35] in politics owes it to themselves to

[03:36] check it out when you look at the mafia

[03:38] they also use the same type of

[03:40] organization

[03:41] everything visible

[03:44] is transitory everything invisible is

[03:46] permanent and lasts forever number 17

[03:48] the devil next door the importance of

[03:50] the story to me it's so American

[03:53] everybody came to America for a new life

[03:58] John dementia came here for a new life

[04:03] and several years into it it was turned

[04:06] upside down you never really know who

[04:08] you're living near this documentary

[04:10] follows the highly publicized Trials of

[04:12] John demyonyek an Ohio auto worker

[04:14] demyaniak's story was everywhere in the

[04:17] 1980s when he was misidentified as a

[04:19] notorious Nazi guard nicknamed Ivan the

[04:22] Terrible who'd been stationed at

[04:23] Treblinka extermination campionuk denies

[04:26] all charges claiming he is not Ivan the

[04:29] Terrible and it's all a case of mistaken

[04:31] identity demyonyek was acquitted but

[04:33] accused of being a guard at a different

[04:35] camp sobibor and tried again in the

[04:38] 2000s he was found guilty and sentenced

[04:40] to prison the devil next door presents

[04:42] this captivating tale and captures its

[04:44] Myriad twists and turns in engrossing

[04:46] fashion people

[04:48] didn't appreciate how important this

[04:51] trial was number 16 cheer I can see

[04:55] you're nervous just take it like second

[04:58] section by section

[05:00] because I do I literally like push out

[05:01] my legs to spin it's like push push spin

[05:04] winner of an Emmy for Outstanding

[05:06] unstructured reality program cheer is

[05:09] basically a real life Bring It On only

[05:11] it's far more brutal the docu-series

[05:13] follows the Navarro College Bulldogs

[05:15] cheer team a highly decorated and

[05:17] supremely disciplined cheerleading squad

[05:19] from Texas it is a display of

[05:22] athleticism it's like the best of

[05:24] gymnastics with the best of circus with

[05:27] the best of dance they compete in the

[05:29] National Cheerleading championship and

[05:31] share an intense rivalry with Trinity

[05:33] Valley Community College the series

[05:35] showcases the intense painful and often

[05:38] unbelievable lengths that participants

[05:40] go to to become the greatest

[05:42] cheerleaders in the country we are very

[05:44] very very hungry to win

[05:48] like we have way too much heart and we

[05:50] have come way too far and worked way too

[05:52] hard for any of us to give up while

[05:55] often difficult to watch it's ultimately

[05:57] an uplifting story about pushing through

[05:59] difficulty and finding trust and

[06:01] companionship

[06:02] number 15 the confession tapes people

[06:05] looking right now and lie to you and

[06:08] destroy you and do it on purpose false

[06:11] confessions are actually quite common

[06:13] some of them voluntary as in the case of

[06:15] Henry Lee Lucas and some coerced during

[06:18] police interrogation the confession

[06:20] tapes details this unfortunate reality

[06:22] in often excruciating fashion I have no

[06:25] idea what kind of pressure and what kind

[06:28] of questions need to be put upon someone

[06:30] in order to go from no I really didn't

[06:33] do it to okay yes I did the series spans

[06:37] two seasons and contains multiple

[06:39] stories each episode covers a specific

[06:41] crime and highlights how police

[06:43] techniques led to possible false

[06:45] confessions they told me that I blacked

[06:48] out they said that's why you can't

[06:50] remember but the evidence

[06:52] proves you've done it with we got a hair

[06:55] that matches you and he kept saying that

[06:58] I mean this isn't just going for 30

[07:00] minutes this went on for hours the

[07:02] psychology involved in the

[07:03] interrogations and confessions is

[07:05] fascinating the confession tapes

[07:07] cleverly mixes true crime drama with

[07:09] expert opinions to craft a docu-series

[07:11] that delves deep into the mind

[07:13] number 14 mcmillions there are a fair

[07:17] amount of murders and mysterious deaths

[07:19] on this list macmillions is an outlier

[07:22] in this regard it's just about some good

[07:24] old-fashioned white-collar crime and all

[07:26] I saw was McDonald's Monopoly fraud with

[07:30] a question mark and I go what is that

[07:33] but as the HBO series proves blood

[07:35] needn't to be shed to make an insane

[07:37] story macmillions takes an in-depth look

[07:39] at a long-running case of fraud carried

[07:41] out between 1989 and 2001 by Jerry

[07:44] Jacobson I do remember clearly uh

[07:48] feeling like I was in New York and I was

[07:50] listening to a mobster talking about

[07:52] running his Mafia Empire some Mafia Dawn

[07:55] because that's kind of how this guy came

[07:56] off as the head of security for the

[07:58] company handling McDonald's annual

[07:59] Monopoly game he was able to steal the

[08:02] rarest property pieces and pass them

[08:04] along for a portion of the prize this is

[08:06] a happy day not only is the premise

[08:09] compelling but the way it plays out

[08:10] often veers into the realm of the Absurd

[08:12] thanks to the odd care doctors involved

[08:14] number 13 the pharmacist it's only a

[08:18] matter of time until this one gets

[08:19] turned into a biopic it's that good we

[08:22] were creating addicts all over this

[08:24] country the dude could have did things

[08:26] to stop this but they saw the profits in

[08:29] 1999 disappointed by apathetic police

[08:32] efforts small town pharmacist Dan

[08:34] Schneider took it upon himself to solve

[08:36] the murder of his son who was killed

[08:37] while buying drugs I started noticing a

[08:40] lot of kids around my son's age

[08:43] 18 19 20 25 year old

[08:46] healthy people

[08:48] coming in with high powered opiate

[08:50] prescriptions this Quest For Justice

[08:52] soon evolves however into a battle

[08:54] against the growing Oxycontin epidemic

[08:56] like something out of a crime Thriller

[08:58] this mild-mannered pharmacist uncovers a

[09:00] trail of corruption and profit

[09:01] maximizing principles that goes all the

[09:03] way up to the top implicating big Pharma

[09:05] Dr klinget was putting these people

[09:07] straight to Oxycontin 40 milligrams she

[09:11] never started in that reduced Doses and

[09:13] then worked their way up it's an

[09:15] incredible story sure but the

[09:16] docu-series also highlights the

[09:18] complexities of opioid abuse and the

[09:20] ways in which it ties into questions of

[09:22] poverty substance use disorder and the

[09:24] American Health Care System I'm now an

[09:26] only child

[09:28] so different without him around

[09:30] number 12. Madoff the monster of Wall

[09:33] Street this God was a demon a devil

[09:39] Bernie Madoff has been arrested a

[09:42] prominent figure on Wall Street Bernie

[09:43] Madoff was at one time the chairman of

[09:45] the NASDAQ Stock Exchange he was also a

[09:48] fraudster who ran the largest Ponzi

[09:50] scheme in history the SEC ignored

[09:53] warnings for years how could he fooled

[09:55] so many people for so long

[09:57] what happened was so avoidable and so

[10:01] many people enabled it to happen because

[10:03] of greed then in December 2008 Madoff

[10:06] confessed to his sons Finance can be a

[10:09] dry subject but this documentary is more

[10:11] sprightly than snoozy unpacking the

[10:13] complex subject matter to tell a

[10:15] fast-paced thriller it also aims wider

[10:18] and examines larger questions about the

[10:19] financial industry and the role of greed

[10:21] within it the only people who can

[10:24] deceive you completely are people you

[10:26] trust completely

[10:29] in the price of trusting anyone is that

[10:33] they can betray you like that number 11.

[10:36] conversations with a killer the Ted

[10:37] Bundy tapes he insisted that he was

[10:41] innocent

[10:42] I wanted him to tell me who was he

[10:46] Netflix has found great success with

[10:48] their conversations with a killer series

[10:49] but the Ted Bundy iteration has to be

[10:51] the most compelling of them all

[10:53] featuring archival footage and extensive

[10:55] interviews the documentary covers the

[10:58] Wild and wicked story of the infamous

[10:59] serial killer it highlights Bundy's most

[11:01] heinous crimes including his murderous

[11:04] Rampage at Akai Omega sorority house in

[11:06] 1978. the main pull of this dock are the

[11:09] words of Bundy himself which mostly come

[11:11] in the form of a death row interview

[11:13] with Stephen Michaud feeling cheated

[11:15] wrong insecure

[11:18] sides upon young attractive women being

[11:21] is victim number 10 making a murderer

[11:25] this was arguably Netflix's first mega

[11:28] hit of a true crime docu-series

[11:29] inspiring countless imitators and I mean

[11:32] knowing her I mean what are your

[11:34] feelings for her parents and

[11:36] they must be going through hell making a

[11:38] murderer follows the story of Steven

[11:40] Avery a man who was wrongfully convicted

[11:42] of attempted murder and sexual assault

[11:44] it appears that an attempt

[11:46] was made

[11:48] to dispose of a body he served 18 years

[11:51] for a crime he didn't commit then just

[11:53] two years after his release with his

[11:55] civil case pending against the county to

[11:56] the tune of 36 million dollars Avery

[11:59] once again found himself under arrest

[12:01] this time for murder

[12:07] across the first season of the series

[12:09] we're presented with a riveting tale of

[12:11] questionable police work and an alleged

[12:13] frame-up the second season doesn't pack

[12:15] quite the same punch but is a worthy

[12:18] investigation of the U.S legal system

[12:20] they got our family all torrent apart

[12:25] it's not right number nine wormwood the

[12:28] CIA ran a covert mind control operation

[12:31] called project MK Ultra I ran into a

[12:33] couple of guys one who just left the CIA

[12:35] who said if you think Watergate

[12:36] something he's in effect he said find

[12:39] out what we've been doing that sentence

[12:40] might sound like something from a

[12:41] conspiracy theory Reddit thread comic

[12:43] book or sci-fi flick but it is now a

[12:46] matter of public record it confirms

[12:48] there was domestic spying on American

[12:50] civilians unlawful wiretaps the opening

[12:53] of private mail even a drug testing

[12:55] program involving the use of LSD against

[12:58] unsuspecting Persons Of course before it

[13:01] came to the attention of the masses the

[13:02] vast majority of the documentation was

[13:04] destroyed by order of then CIA director

[13:06] Richard Helms and so decades later even

[13:09] armed with the surviving Declassified

[13:10] documents we are still putting together

[13:12] the pieces you are in Fort Dietrich

[13:15] where some 600 military and civilian

[13:17] scientists worked together in research

[13:19] at the Army biological Laboratories

[13:22] to protect this country against a

[13:25] biological attack in this six-part

[13:26] mini-series documentary filmmaker Errol

[13:29] Morris explores the cia's use of LSD the

[13:31] suspicious death of scientist Eric Olson

[13:33] and the enduring mystery of MK Ultra

[13:35] number eight the vowel ESP Nexium

[13:40] is a methodology

[13:43] that allows people to optimize their

[13:49] experience and behavior this tantalizing

[13:52] HBO documentary covers one of the

[13:54] scariest Revelations of the 2010s Nexium

[13:57] was supposedly a corporation that hosted

[13:59] self-help seminars in reality it was a

[14:02] vicious cult led by an abuser and human

[14:04] trafficker named Keith Ranieri The Vow

[14:07] covers the barbarous story of Nexium and

[14:09] features dramatic interviews with past

[14:11] members everything was designed to

[14:14] protect him I got played and I helped

[14:17] this guy build whatever he was building

[14:18] around him and I was a part of that they

[14:21] delve into the cult's inner workings and

[14:23] how people were drawn in it also details

[14:26] how Smallville Star Allison Mack joined

[14:28] Nexium and became a powerful and

[14:30] sadistic subordinate of renaries The Vow

[14:32] is equal parts harrowing and gripping

[14:34] but it's also a sad story about people

[14:36] who were searching for happiness and

[14:38] instead were exploited by the cult

[14:40] number seven don't f with cats hunting

[14:44] an internet killer murder meet the

[14:46] internet age there's no mystery in this

[14:48] three-part Netflix original but that

[14:50] doesn't make it any less compelling

[14:51] bingeable or disturbing and so I was on

[14:54] Facebook one day and I found a post

[14:58] a lot of people have been feverishly

[15:00] posting about a video Don't with cats

[15:02] follows the rise to infamy of convicted

[15:04] murderer Luca magnata from the

[15:06] perspective of a community of online

[15:07] sleuths now it doesn't necessarily mean

[15:09] that the person didn't buy a pack of

[15:11] cigarettes and then hop on a plane to

[15:13] Paris or you know Berlin but I knew they

[15:17] were North American cigarettes magnata

[15:18] filmed himself killing a university

[15:19] student named Jin Lin and posted it

[15:22] online subsequently becoming one of the

[15:24] most Wanted men in the world hi my name

[15:26] is Luca make nod is my last name

[15:30] m-a-g-n-o-t-t-a before that however he's

[15:32] thought to have been behind a video

[15:33] involving the torture and killing of two

[15:35] kittens that's the video that rallied an

[15:38] internet community and this documentary

[15:40] is the story of how they tried to bring

[15:41] him to Justice before he could kill

[15:43] again that looks exactly like the Petro

[15:46] Canada gas station that I see in the

[15:48] photo of Luca and guess what

[15:51] that large gray cement apartment

[15:54] building is directly behind it number

[15:56] six Evil Genius the true story of

[15:59] America's most diabolical bank heist

[16:01] watch this document series at your own

[16:03] risk you may never be able to enjoy

[16:05] Pizza quite like you did before or feel

[16:07] comfortable going to the bank this

[16:09] deadly robbery has to be one of the

[16:11] strangest crimes in American history

[16:13] Evil Genius tells the convoluted story

[16:15] of Brian Wells a man who after

[16:17] completing a bank heist was killed when

[16:19] the explosive device on the collar

[16:20] around his neck went off we are hopeful

[16:22] that by showing a picture of the device

[16:26] someone may have Wrecking or may

[16:29] recognize

[16:30] the instrument it's

[16:32] like a comic book or the saw franchise

[16:34] though the nature of Well's death is

[16:36] indeed morbid it's just one small piece

[16:38] of a complicated puzzle that will have

[16:40] you on the edge of your seat the

[16:42] Marjorie steel

[16:44] d-i-e-h-l okay and Mark your deal is at

[16:47] that residence now yes who is she to you

[16:49] sir

[16:50] uh I'll give you guys my story later on

[16:53] number five the Jinx the life and depths

[16:57] of Robert Durst the True Crime genre is

[16:59] full of stories about people who went to

[17:01] jail for crimes they allegedly did not

[17:02] commit less common however are Tales of

[17:05] suspected murderers who walk free

[17:07] despite being linked to the deaths of

[17:09] multiple people the guy looks like a

[17:11] librarian

[17:13] he doesn't look like a a person that

[17:16] would dismember a human being but

[17:18] getting such an individual to agree to

[17:20] be interviewed for a docu-series that's

[17:22] almost unheard of why would a guy with

[17:25] 520 in his pocket and thirty seven

[17:28] thousand dollars in the trunk walk into

[17:30] a Wegmans and steal a sandwich the guy

[17:35] is crying out to be arrested isn't he

[17:37] the Jinx explores The Disappearance of

[17:39] Robert durst's wife Kathy as well as the

[17:41] murders of his friend Susan Berman and

[17:43] neighbor Morris black Durst was

[17:45] considered a suspect in all three I am

[17:48] complicit and Kathy's not being here we

[17:51] won't give away the ending but unlike so

[17:53] many docu-series of its kind this story

[17:56] actually has a relatively satisfying

[17:57] conclusion with no shortage of twists

[18:00] along the way number four Wild Wild

[18:03] Country who's ready to take a trip down

[18:05] the rabbit hole American history is made

[18:07] up of all manner of odd characters and

[18:09] strange chapters but few can hold a

[18:11] candle to that of the rajnish param

[18:13] community now there are two ways

[18:16] either repress sex as it has been done

[18:19] by all the so-called religious

[18:21] traditions of the world are

[18:24] transformative this controversial group

[18:26] led by Guru bhagwan Shri rajnish left

[18:29] India in the 1980s and settled in Wasco

[18:32] County Oregon though the community

[18:33] seemed to center around sexual

[18:34] Liberation meditation and dancing

[18:36] rajnish was equally known for his love

[18:38] of material wealth beautiful city

[18:41] example for the universe as the story

[18:43] progresses the dream soon begins to

[18:45] unravel as tensions rise between

[18:47] rajneeshpuram and the locals of Wasco

[18:49] County Sheila former Secretary of the

[18:51] bhagwan rajneesh faces charges of Fraud

[18:54] and attempted murder in Oregon

[18:56] bioterrorism a Rolls-Royce collection

[18:58] power struggles and questions of

[19:00] constitutional Freedom this documentary

[19:03] has got it all when you have a basically

[19:05] unstable personality coupled with

[19:07] tremendous power over enormous numbers

[19:09] of people you have a potentially lethal

[19:12] Situation Number Three Tiger King Wild

[19:15] Wild Country might have the word wild in

[19:17] its title twice but when it comes to

[19:19] docu-series it simply doesn't get any

[19:21] more wild than Tiger King gummy you sexy

[19:24] beast hi little man this explosively

[19:28] popular Netflix original series broke

[19:30] the internet in March of 2020 becoming a

[19:32] true cultural phenomenon it's about big

[19:35] cat collectors breeders and

[19:36] conservationists specifically it focuses

[19:39] on the bitter feud between Joe Exotic

[19:41] and Carol Baskin two figures on opposing

[19:43] sides of the big cat debate Carol

[19:45] baskin's third husband and they can't

[19:47] find his body okay we believe that she

[19:49] fed him to the Tigers both are wildly

[19:51] eccentric individuals and as filmmakers

[19:54] Eric good and Rebecca chaklin unravel

[19:55] this complex narrative the twists and

[19:57] shocking reveals come fast and heavy but

[20:00] honestly no plot summary can prepare you

[20:02] for the insanity of Tiger King you just

[20:04] have to watch it for yourself about an

[20:06] hour ago we had an incident where one of

[20:08] the employees stuck their arm through

[20:09] the cage and the tiger tore her arm off

[20:12] I can give you your money back or I can

[20:15] give you a rain check number two OJ

[20:18] America we have jury in the above and

[20:20] title action

[20:21] pendant or

[20:23] orenthal James Simpson not guilty of a

[20:25] crime of murder in violation of penal

[20:27] Colt section 187 a a felony upon Nicole

[20:30] Brown Simpson one of the finest

[20:32] documentaries of the 2010s OJ made in

[20:35] America received a Peabody and the

[20:37] Academy Award for best documentary it is

[20:39] a five-part epic spanning nearly eight

[20:42] hours in length detailing in highly

[20:44] specific fashion the life of O.J Simpson

[20:46] it covers all there is to cover from

[20:49] Simpson's early life to his

[20:50] record-breaking football career to his

[20:52] Infamous murder trial and Las Vegas

[20:53] robbery if you woke up and heard that

[20:56] O.J Simpson is back in the news and

[20:58] under arrest rest assured it's not

[21:00] Groundhog Day this time though he's in a

[21:03] jail cell in Las Vegas after a

[21:05] confrontation apparently caught on tape

[21:08] but it's not just a true crime series

[21:09] about one of the most famous cases in

[21:11] modern history as the title made in

[21:13] America suggests the documentary also

[21:16] examines the American dream and

[21:18] systematic issues in American society

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[21:35] number one the staircase though perhaps

[21:39] best known today as a Netflix original

[21:40] the first season of this docu-series was

[21:43] released way back in 2004 under the

[21:45] French title Soup song meaning suspicion

[21:49] she's still breathing what kind of

[21:52] accidents as fans of the True Crime

[21:54] genre know all too well these cases

[21:56] often span decades and so subsequent

[21:59] episodes were released in 2013 and 2018

[22:01] respectively the staircase follows the

[22:04] trial of Michael Peterson an American

[22:05] novelist convicted of killing his wife

[22:07] Kathleen the name of the series is taken

[22:10] from a staircase which Peterson claims

[22:11] took his wife's life the forensic

[22:13] evidence however suggests a different

[22:15] cause of death it just never occurred to

[22:17] Michael Peterson that people wouldn't

[22:19] believe him when he said she fell down

[22:21] the stairs

[22:22] that's really what this is all about the

[22:24] end result is a true crime Thriller

[22:25] that's inspired countless theories and

[22:27] which people are still revisiting years

[22:29] later

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