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Netflix documentary series about the 7/7 London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people — and the three-week manhunt that followed.

American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson is a Netflix docuseries about the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and the acquittal of O.J. Simpson.

The assassination of Malcolm X is a 1965 American political murder case in which civil rights leader Malcolm X was shot dead on stage in Manhattan at age 39.

Nevenka: Breaking the Silence is a Netflix docuseries about Nevenka Fernández's sexual harassment lawsuit against Ismael Álvarez, mayor of Ponferrada, Spain — the first successful case of its kind against a Spanish politician.

A documentary about Ruby McCollum, a Black woman who shot and killed white physician and Florida senator-elect Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams in 1952 Jim Crow Florida. Available on Amazon Prime.

Free Chol Soo Lee is a 2022 documentary about Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee, wrongly convicted of a 1973 Chinatown murder — available on Apple TV, Viaplay and Filmstriben.

MLK: The Assassination Tapes is a 2012 documentary TV movie about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, streaming on Pluto TV.

Chambre 2806 is a Netflix documentary series about the 2011 sexual assault allegations against IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, told through witnesses, investigators, and the woman who accused him.

My Name Is Bulger is a Disney+ documentary series examining the 1993 murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool and the lifelong controversy surrounding his killers' protected identities.

MLK: The Conspiracies is a 2021 documentary series examining the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., convicted killer James Earl Ray, and decades of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

Hestepigen fra Helvede is an HBO Max documentary series about the premeditated 2022 murder of 40-year-old Frank Dan Nørgaard Jørgensen by a four-person conspiracy in Denmark.

The Garrett Phillips case is an unsolved American homicide in which 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was strangled in his Potsdam, New York apartment on October 24, 2011.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is a 1968 American murder case in which civil rights leader King was shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis by fugitive James Earl Ray.

The Chol Soo Lee case is a landmark American wrongful-conviction story in which a young Korean immigrant was convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder he did not commit, later acquitted in 1982.

The Brittany Smith case is an Alabama homicide prosecution in which Brittany Smith shot and killed her husband Todd Smith in 2019, claiming self-defense after alleged domestic violence.

Kalief Browder was arrested at 16 in 2010 for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent three years at Rikers Island without trial because his family couldn't afford bail. Two years were in solitary confinement. His tragic story triggered historic reforms of the American bail system.

Highway of Tears is the name given to a cluster of disappearances and murders of women and girls along a 724-kilometer stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada, with a disproportionate number of Indigenous victims since 1969.

In July 1925, high school teacher John Scopes stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for the crime of teaching human evolution. The case became a watershed moment in American law, pitting religious fundamentalism against scientific education and raising questions about state power over classroom instruction that persist today.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by electric chair on June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, making them the only American civilians put to death for espionage during the Cold War. The couple had been convicted of conspiracy to pass classified information about atomic bomb designs to the Soviet Union.

In 2001, a federal court examined allegations that U.S. Military Academy personnel at West Point failed to properly investigate reports of suspicious behavior by a man with access to young girls, resulting in harm to a child and triggering a lawsuit against the United States.