12 Documentaries Like The Staircase

12 documentaries

If you liked The Staircase, these are the ones to watch next.

The Staircase follows one case for more than 15 years, and you'll change your mind about Michael Peterson more than once. These are the true crime documentaries that make you the jury. Making a Murderer and The Jinx are the obvious next ones.

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Making a Murderer

2015 · 20 eps

8.5
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2

The Jinx

2015 · 12 eps

8.6
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3

The Thin Blue Line

1988 · 1h 43m

7.9100%
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4

Amanda Knox

2016 · 1h 32m

6.982%
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5

Killing for Love

2016 · 2h 11m

7.051%
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6

Paradise Lost

1996 · 2h 30m

8.2100%
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7

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

2011 · 2h 1m

8.0100%
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8

Brother's Keeper

1992 · 1h 44m

7.5100%
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9

Southwest of Salem

2016 · 1h 31m

7.2100%
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10

The Central Park Five

2012 · 1h 59m

7.792%
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11

Murder on a Sunday Morning

2001 · 1h 51m

7.9
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12

O.J.: Made in America

2016 · 7h 47m

8.9100%

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