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DOC NYC · 2017

DOC NYC 2017

True Crime

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5 films · 1 review

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Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders

Docuseries about the murder of a Kansas family in 1959, which formed the basis for Truman Capote's Cold Blood.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Joe Berlinger, Allison Berg, Kahane Cooperman)

The Iconoclast

A true life thriller about art smuggler Michel van Rijn.

(Country: UK, Spain, Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: King Adz; Stars: Banksy, Valeria Vereau, Robert Baer, King Adz, Steve Lazarides, Matthew Bogdanos, Royce Cronin, Alex Baddeley, Loretta Napoleoni, Arthur Brand, Sophie Anhoury, Raymond Lobato, Dick Ellis, Anthony Micallef, Michel van Rijn)

World premiere

A Murder In Mansfield

The legacy of the 1989 murder of Noreen Boyle in Mansfield, Ohio.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Barbara Kopple)

World premiere

White Boy

Documentary about Richard Wershe Jr, known as ‘White Boy Rick’, suggesting his punishment may not fit his crimes.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Christopher S Rech) , Official site

NYC premiere

What Haunts Us

Review preview for What Haunts Us

What emerges in Tolmach's documentary is shocking but, on another level, unsurprising.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Why are the men of Charleston, South Carolina's Porter Gaud School killing themselves? The filmmaker investigates.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Paige Tolmach)

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NYC premiere