These three docu-dramas series are so good that while watching them, you’ll be googling to see how true they really are.
HBO’s CHERNOBYL
IMDb: 9.6
Unbelievable. Many of us have never heard of Chernobyl and the nuclear disaster that history suggests, was also a part of the downfall of the Soviet Union. In five riveting episodes you’ll be transported to April 1986 when an explosion at Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant in Russia caused one of the world’s worst catastrophes. The series details how the Soviet Union tried to downplay the disaster and how many lives were affected by the event. It’s so unbelievably real, that you’ll have to google it just to confirm that such a big event took place in our recent history and you weren’t aware of it. When the series was released people said it was better than Game of Thrones and Chernobyl has now become a tourist attraction.
NETFLIX’s WHEN THEY SEE US
IMDb: 9.1
Racism at its peak, this four episodes series will leave you shocked at the how deeply engrained racism was in American society. The series tells the 1989 true story of four black and one Hispanic teenagers who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. They were called the Central Park 5, who were forced into false and convoluted confessions and convicted for many years. The episodes chronicles the conviction and the release and the director of the series says it was compiled after many years of research and is “very accurate.”
NETFLIX’s MINDHUNTER
IMDb: 8.5
Questions were never seem to ask or think of, and once you start an episode of Mindhunter, you think, damn, why didn’t I watch this earlier? Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents interview serial killers to find out what causes them to do such heinous crimes. They interview serial killers, (who have done crimes you will not believe), and use the information to solve cases. Want to know how the term serial killer first came into existence? Watch this.
