Tag: true crime
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Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright/Bradley Hope
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline to Billion Dollar Whale: Apparently you don’t need money to make money. Quick synopsis: The story of how Jho Low stole billions of dollars from various entities. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: The money stolen was partially used to fund the making of the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Irony…
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The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for The Republic of Pirates: The English are the reason we can’t have nice things like a Pirate Republic. Quick synopsis: The story of how pirates tried to create their own society and the man who destroyed it. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: The Golden Age of Piracy was relatively short…
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This is a Robbery (Netflix)
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for This is a Robbery: Editor wanted. Quick synopsis: The story of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: This is the largest art heist in history. Fun Fact for History Nerds: The thieves stole wisely when they poached a few Rembrandts, Degas, and a…
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Six Days in August by David King
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Six Days in August: Who wouldn’t fall in love with their kidnapper? Quick synopsis: The story of the Norrmalmstorg bank robbery in Sweden in 1973. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: Why do you care about a bank robbery with a funny name? This is how “Stockholm Syndrome” entered the public…
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Crazy Not Insane (HBO)
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Crazy Not Insane: Irony: Naming your documentary how it makes the viewer feel. Quick synopsis: A documentary about psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis. Or her theories. Or her thoughts on the death penalty. Honestly, I’m not sure what it was going for. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: Dissociative identity disorder (DID),…
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In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park/Maryanne Vollers
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for In Order to Live: North Korea is worse than I thought, amazingly. Quick synopsis: The story of Yeonmi Park, who escaped North Korea only to end up being human trafficked in China. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: Children are taught that Kim Jong Il wrote fifteen hundred books while at…
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The Book Was Better: Catch and Kill
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Catch and Kill: Movie producers are perverts? Who knew? Except literally everyone. Quick synopsis: The story of how Ronan Farrow took down Harvey Weinstein. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: Ronan Farrow is also a lawyer and clearly an overachiever. Fun Fact for History Nerds: Weinstein actually reached out to Woody…
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Operation Thunderbolt by Saul David
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Operation Thunderbolt: Idi Amin was a real whackjob. Quick synopsis: The story of Operation Thunderbolt, an Israeli action to save hostages on a hijacked plane. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: The flight crew was given the option to be released with non-Jewish passengers but refused. Fun Fact for History Nerds:…
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The Good Assassin by Stephan Talty
Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for The Good Assassin: Of course he’s a good assassin. He’s killing Nazis. Quick synopsis: The story of the hunt and killing of Herbert Cukurs, the Butcher of Latvia. Fun Fact Non-History People Will Like: Ilha da Queimada Grande, an island off the coast of Brazil, has one snake for every 6…