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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A searching, morally unsettled documentary about atrocity, responsibility, and how institutions rationalize violence—matching Gibney’s patient interest in looking past monstrous acts toward the systems and minds behind them.
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Why this pick
Like Crazy, Not Insane, it confronts perpetrators without easy moral distance, using sustained encounters to probe denial, trauma, and the disturbing human mechanisms that permit killing.
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Why this pick
Its rigorous, stylish investigation questions how criminal narratives are built and believed. It shares Gibney’s fascination with psychology, testimony, and the grave ethical stakes surrounding capital punishment.
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Why this pick
An intricate true-crime documentary that resists certainty, patiently exposing conflicting memories, family dynamics, and the unsettling gap between an alleged crime and any clean explanation.
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01 / THE STORY
Directed and produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, Crazy, Not Insane follows Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has dedicated her career to studying murderers and seeking answers as to why people kill. The film explores her lifelong attempts to look beyond the grisly details of homicides and into the hearts and minds of the killers themselves. The documentary film highlights Dr. Lewis’ research, videotaped death row interviews, and the formative experiences and neurological dysfunction of infamous murderers such as Arthur Shawcross and Ted Bundy, to challenge the notion that murderers are made and not born. Narrated by actress Laura Dern, Crazy, Not Insane also explores the death penalty itself, questioning whether or not it is actually a deterrent to violence and asking an important question: Once dangerous killers are locked away and the public is protected, why is society so determined to execute these human beings?
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
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