17 best shows like The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019)

List of the best shows and series like The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019): The Vow, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, Making a Murderer, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Flint Town, The Innocence Files, The Devil Next Door, The 93 Victims of Samuel Little, BuzzFeed Unsolved - True Crime, The Confession Killer.

Markimdb: 7
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

The docuseries follows people deeply involved in the group NXIVM — which is faced with various charges, including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy — over the course of several years.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, crime, detective
CountryUSA

An exploration of the case of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, committing 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders, and true crime author Michelle McNamara's obsessive quest to find justice on behalf of his victims.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

Over a two-year period, filmmakers embedded with cops in Flint, Michigan, reveal a department grappling with volatile issues in untenable conditions.

Markimdb: 8
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

The personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, crime, history
CountryUSA

The Devil Next Door tells the story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American automotive worker in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1980s who is accused as being a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard during World War II, known as Ivan the Terrible.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

Samuel Little may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking of serial killers, but he is one of the most prolific and elusive of all time. He was convicted of murdering four women but is thought to have killed as many as 93 women over four decades. For the first time ever, viewers will have exclusive access to investigators, stories from families and chillingly detailed descriptions from Samuel Little himself.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genrehorror, comedy, documentary, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

Henry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

This docuseries explores the period between 1979 and 1981 when at least 30 African-American children and young adults disappeared or were murdered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

Former cartel insiders divulge the bone-chilling details behind the notorious murder and kidnapping of DEA Agent "Kiki" Camarena.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, crime, biography
CountryUSA

Charged as a teen in the 1993 killing of a Boston cop, Sean K. Ellis fights to prove his innocence while exposing police corruption and systemic racism.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

In a story that gained national attention with John Grisham’s best-selling non-fiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, the six-part documentary series The Innocent Man focuses on two murders that shook the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, in the 1980s — and the controversial chain of events that followed.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

Soon after his birth-mother contacted him for the first time, Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His disturbing identity would force Stewart to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary, crime, history
CountryUSA

A detailed account of the McDonald's Monopoly game scam during the 1990s as told by the participants in the case, including the prizewinners and the FBI agents who caught the security officer who orchestrated the entire scheme.




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