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Harry & Meghan
Hitler's Circle of Evil
Emergency: NYC
Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified
MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street
WWII in Color: Road to Victory
Life After Death with Tyler Henry
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
Tiger King
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
How to Get Rich
Surviving R. Kelly
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared
The Innocence Files
Love on the Spectrum: Australia
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Lenox Hill
The Keepers
Kaulitz & Kaulitz
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Files of the Unexplained
Murder Mountain
The Yara Gambirasio Case: Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Diagnosis
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Surviving Death
Heist
Terrorism Close Calls
Together: Treble Winners
Wild Wild Country
Trial 4
Captains of the World
The Cuba Libre Story
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan
30 for 30: The Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius
The Innocent Man
Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Secrets of Great British Castles
The Lost Pirate Kingdom

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Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Tiger King
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
How to Fix a Drug Scandal
Tour de France: Unchained
Escaping Twin Flames
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
The Keepers
I Just Killed My Dad
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
Making a Murderer
Waco: American Apocalypse
The Devil Next Door
The Pharmacist
The Staircase
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
How to Become a Mob Boss
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia
Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil
Wild Wild Country
Don't Pick Up the Phone
Evil Genius: the True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist
Trial 4
Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story
The Innocent Man
How to Become a Cult Leader
Challenger
Alexander: The Making of a God
Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime
The Most Hated Man on the Internet
Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
Wrestlers
Spy Ops
How to Become a Tyrant
A Farewell to Ozark
Who Killed Little Gregory?
The Alcàsser Murders

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