The Two Escobars
Why this pick
Like O.J.: Made in America, it uses a sports icon’s public life to map a larger national crisis—here, Colombian football, drug power, class, and political violence—with expansive investigative momentum.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like O.J.: Made in America, it uses a sports icon’s public life to map a larger national crisis—here, Colombian football, drug power, class, and political violence—with expansive investigative momentum.
Why this pick
Its lucid, forceful blend of history, politics, media, and criminal-justice analysis shares Edelman’s interest in showing how a single public story sits inside a much larger American system.
Why this pick
A sweeping, character-driven examination of the drug war that moves between intimate personal damage and structural history, with the same patient ambition to interrogate American myths.
Why this pick
A rich archival social history of race, policing, media, and political identity in America; it provides the kind of layered historical context that makes O.J.’s story resonate beyond the case.
Why this pick
For the absorbing true-crime investigation and competing narratives around a murder case, Morris’s stylized reconstruction and methodical interviews offer a leaner, more formally daring complement.
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01 / THE STORY
The rise and fall of American football star, O.J. Simpson, from his days growing up in Los Angeles to his murder trial that polarized the country.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Himself (archive footage)

Herself - Interviewee
Himself - Interviewee

Himself - Interviewee
Himself - Interviewee

Herself (archive footage)