Documentaries

2nd Chance

An exploration of Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself at least 192 times to prove his product worked.

Dir. by Academy Award nominee, Ramin Bahrani. Sundance Film Festival, 2022. (Showtime)

The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg

When a polite robber carries out a series of odd bank heists, the police investigation takes a sharp turn—pointing to Steve Vogelsang, a garrulous former broadcaster once known as “The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg.” Narrated by Will Arnett.

Dir. by Academy Award nominee, Charlie Siskel and Ben Daughtrey. (Amazon Prime).

The Honey Trap

Documentary chronicling the story of Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, and his journey from infamous German rapper to ISIS recruiter.

Dir. by Chris Moukarbel (Paramount+)

Podcasts

Instant Classics

Join world-renowned classicist Mary Beard and Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins for Instant Classics — the weekly podcast that proves ancient history is still relevant.

One Life for Another

One Life For Another explores all aspects of an incredible criminal case in Mexico.

Revelations

Investigative journalist Jennings Brown met with the Fellowship of Friends, an elite spiritual organization whose leader had predicted global catastrophe.

Unfit for Service

Randy Taylor, a young soldier from Ohio, leaves his family behind for the US Army. But, will his new life be everything he hopes it will be?

Corked

Corked is a scripted “true” crime miniseries set in Napa Valley about a brash winemaker with a secret past

Crooks Everywhere

Crooks Everywhere exposes the plot to assassinate Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who spent her life fighting for truth, justice, and decency.

Heat List

It's meant to save lives, but will it do more harm than good?

Exposed

In the summer of 2015, millions of cheaters who had been covertly using the dating website Ashley Madison were suddenly thrust into a harsh reality.

The Spy Who

The Spy Who podcast tells stories of secret operatives in intelligence services, playing by different rules, and the invisible but vital work they do.

One Click

Narrated by Elle Fanning, One Click is a documentary podcast exploring how a single click on the internet can change your life forever.

Thrill Seekers

Would you go on a reality show if you didn’t know what it was about? Even if they promised you the adventure of a lifetime?

The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace

This is the inside story of one of the world's most bizarre and ballsy reality dating shows.

Kid Nation

We introduce the concept of 'Kid Nation' through the lens of its controversial reception, including a campaign to have the show banned before it even aired.

Doing Sex

Doing Sex explores intimacy and identity, desire, shame, and silence through personal stories and others' experiences of how we 'do sex'.

The Darkness Vaults

For journalists all over the world, reporting true crime stories is a day-to-day reality. But what do journalists do when that reality is so dark that it feels like we’ve reached a new depth of human cruelty?

The Cost of Happiness

Description here.Billionaire Zappos founder and tech CEO Tony Hsieh was obsessed with happiness and helping people achieve it.

Operation Morning Light

On a January night in 1978, a white light burned through the sub-Arctic sky. It was Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet espionage satellite that had malfunctioned and fallen to earth.

Killer Book Club

Why would someone murder a retired English teacher who made life better for the community?

Bad Money: Big Spender

Some people do extraordinary things to get rich but few come close to Big Spender.

Paddlefish Caviar Heist

Warsaw, Missouri, is a small, rural town of just over 2,000 people in the American Midwest. Very few realize that it’s the paddlefish capital of the world.

Hemmingways Picasso

Steve Kough lived many lives. He was an NFL journeyman, a male model, and one of the most well-connected smugglers in 1980’s Miami, the “Drug Capital of the World."

Radioman

Discover the crime thriller podcast where a former DJ starts a podcast after gruesome murders leave a community in despair.

Chasing Boaz Manor

A masterclass of manipulation—dive deep into the true story of a cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement that spans the globe.

Bonaparte

It’s been 25 years since Anne Champion’s friend was killed, but the case was never solved. When Anne, now a prominent Manhattan attorney, gets an unexpected phone call from an old friend, it compels her to return to Iowa, her childhood home, to try and piece together the events around Laura Van Wyhe’s mysterious death.

Crying For Strangers

As the body of Princess Diana is carried on a gun carriage, her two young sons walking closely behind, the gathered crowd weeps uncontrollably.

paperless: An audio magazine

Joy Boy

Narrated by Steve Buscemi, this is the story of Gosnell Duncan and his many dicks. After being handicapped in a work-related accident, Caribbean-born Gosnell was paralyzed from the waist down. A life-long lothario and passionate husband, Gosnell used his engineering knowledge to craft a new invention: the world’s first silicone dildo.

Chighali

Camels, sand storms, scorpions, and sand dunes towering like buildings—these are amongst Sidi’s first ever memories. Raised in a nomadic tribe on the far edge of the Sahara desert, Sidi doesn’t have a father like the other kids.

The Mockbuster

When small-time money counterfeiter Edward L. Montoro nearly dies in a plane crash, he decides to reinvent himself as a filmmaker.

The Starlet Bandits

Narrated by Jurnee Smollett and told in two parts. It's Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and Nina is chasing the LA dream. Far from home, she falls into sex work and gets caught up in her boyfriend/pimp's latest scheme: robbing banks.

I Can't Come Back

In a case that stunned the FBI, a linguist assigned to a high-profile terrorism case disappeared—only to resurface behind enemy lines, married to her target.

The Joke

Based on the life of Susanna Madora Salter and narrated by Elle Fanning. Argonia, Kansas, 1887. Susanna Salter is baking bread when there’s a knock at the door. She learns she’s been nominated for the mayoral elections as a prank by some of the men of the town.

The Living Goddess

The Living Goddess follows Rashmila, who at four years old was taken from her family to become a goddess. She grew up in a palace, dressed always in red, believing she could heal the people who came to worship her.

Guarding Saddam

This is the never before told story of the relationship between a prisoner—the ex-President of Iraq—and a young American soldier from Kansas City.

The Way We're Built

Facing hard times in the early 1990s, Subaru of America is trying to understand who exactly buys their cars. That's when one marketing executive notices a peculiar niche in their focus groups—lesbian women.

The Badir Bros

In a small Israeli village in the 1980s, three Arab brothers are born blind. When a payphone is installed at the end of the block, the brothers discover they can use their supersensitive hearing to manipulate the lines to do their bidding, the first step in what will become the largest telecom fraud in Israeli history.

Blinkers

Conor Mackay is a fast-talking teenager from a Mississippi trailer who rakes in fifty-thousand dollars a night selling counterfeit concert tickets or "blinkers" in the 1990s.

The Beanie Babies

Sonya Golden Head

Narrated by Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion, Quantum of Solace). When the great Russian writer ANTON CHEKHOV visits the penal colony on the remote island of Sakhalin in 1890, he is astonished to learn that they’re holding a famous prisoner—SONYA GOLDEN HAND.

The Drive

It's 1974, and Richard Molfer has just started his own labor consulting firm and zeroed in on his first client: a hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey. A union drive is about to start here, the employees are already organizing, and administrators are terrified.

Anthony's Room

A woman grapples with the mysterious murder of her husband in their Denver home. All the doors were locked from inside, there is no sign of break-in, but her husband lies there, stabbed to death.

Becoming Maeve

Narrated by Jamie Clayton. For Maeve DuVally, coming out as transgender in a corporate America was a journey of self-discovery that required her to hit rock bottom before she came out on top. This is her story.

The Swingin' A's

The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most iconoclastic team in baseball history. Never before had a club so collectively traumatized baseball's establishment with its eccentric behavior and business decisions, not to mention its outlandish facial hair, while simultaneously setting records: five consecutive division titles and three straight championships.

May Peleg Approves of You

In 2015, the body of transgender activist May Peleg was held in custody while the courts decided whether her dying wish— to be buried as a woman— would be respected, or whether her mother would be granted permission to bury her as a man. Inspired by her life and legacy, May Peleg Approves of You centers around a young Orthodox Jew wrestling with his sexuality and, through May, learning to live in his own identity.

The Conductor

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, playing an instrument could be punished by death, and yet Negin finds herself as conductor of all-female orchestra, stepping into a power she didn’t know she had.

White Widow

A deep-dive into Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of one of London’s 7/7 bombers and a notorious wanted woman in the UK.

Blood & Wine

Stellenbosch, South Africa. When white farmer Stefan Smit is murdered in his own home, the finger is immediately pointed at the Black residents living on the edge of his vineyard.

Portrait of a Spy

The Chevalier d'Eon is a brave army captain, a sparkling dinner companion—and a spy in King Louis XV's secret service, tasked with planning an invasion of England from within London's highest social circles.

Made In Alabama

Alex Latifi, Iranian-born owner of a small parts factory in Alabama, loved by his workers, had been fulfilling military contracts for years, making parts cheaper and better than the competition.

Electric Prisoner

Inspired by the life and work of Leon Theremin, a Russian inventor whose most famous invention was the Theremin –– an instrument that produces otherworldly, haunting music, and which is played seemingly by magic.

Night Walk

When brutal murders in the community push the Reverend to his limits, he knows he needs to reach the people at the heart of the violence. But as he walks the streets by night, his own son is out on those same streets, immersed in gang life and drug dealing, earning the nickname Little Killer.

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