8 New True Crime Titles To Watch On Netflix In August
Netflix has kept True Crime fans busy this summer with plenty of new releases to keep your curiosity satiated, for the time being at least.
Check out new titles dropping as early as this week, and the latest hits that are available to stream tonight. I mean, you’re not a real fan unless you watch them all, am I right?
Upcoming August Releases
The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (8/22)
The producers of The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**k With Cats are back, and diving into the 2019 events that made multiple headlines when Mighty Ducks and Empire actor, Jussie Smollett claimed to be a victim of a hate crime in Chicago involving a noose, but was later found to have orchestrated the events with two accomplices. A slew of law suits, countersuits, and appeals followed, making this pop culture landmark fertile ground for an in depth documentary.
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (8/29)
Fiction becomes reality when two Michigan teens receive lewd and threatening texts from a blocked number. But this is no Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars, and the FBI eventually becomes involved. Promotional materials promise shocking twists, and a perpetrator who may be closer to the victims than anyone expected.
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The Echoes Of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies
This docuseries is a follow-up to 2023’s In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal which covered the JMS cult/sex abuse scandal, which Director Cho Seong-hyun connected to the South Korean police force, which was audited and investigated for obstructing the investigation in 2024. New episodes dive into other chapters of national history, such as the Busan Brother’s home, Chijon Family kidnapping, and criminal negligence in the Sampoong department store collapse explore the broadscale trauma left by these newsworthy events.
Songs From the Hole
This documentary slash visual album is the work of rapper James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was incarcerated at 15 for murder, and director Contessa Gayles, who combines phone calls with prison footage to explore Jacobs’ personal experience with incarceration, loss, and search for freedom. Before his release in 2022 after serving 18 years, he has an encounter with his brother’s killer that transforms him spiritually. Not your typical investigative style film, this is still a new angle on true crime worth watching.
Stolen: Heist Of The Century
The 2003 Antwerp diamond heist, perpetrated by a group known as “The School of Turin” made history when hundreds of millions worth of gems were taken from a supposedly impenetrable vault (it’s giving Titanic vibes) without any force or violence involved. If you’re in the mood for a real-life Ocean’s Eleven, this one is for you, and most of the diamonds are still missing to this day, which only adds to the allure.
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
Re-examining the 1970’s Son of Sam, also known as “.44 Caliber Killer”, murders, this documentary includes never-before-heard interviews recorded with David Berkowitz in 1980 at the Attica Correctional Facility. Detectives, survivors, journalists, and criminal profilers contribute to the present day commentary on this case that has captivated us for over half a century.
Amy Bradley Is Missing
A 23 year-old girl disappears on a cruise with her family in 1998 and remains unfound to this day, despite multiple claims of sightings in Curaçao, Barbardos, and San Francisco. This year, in July podcast host Ethan Klein offered a $1M reward for any information that leads to her safe return. Dissect all of the theories from foul play to sex trafficking with this in-depth documentary.
Angi: Fake Life, True Crime
This two part series dives into the 2008 murder of Ana Páez in Barcelona, and in what was nicknamed “The Near Perfect Crime” her friend María Ángeles Molina assumes her identity in order to commit fraud for financial gain. Molina’s husband mysteriously died in 1996, and the documentary pokes holes in lingering q
