The Innocence Files
2020 · Miniseries · TV-MA · ★ 7.4 · 93% critics
This documentary series follows several wrongful-conviction cases championed by advocacy groups working to challenge verdicts and seek justice. Through personal accounts and case details, it explores how flawed evidence, pressure to convict, and long legal battles can change lives.
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Streaming on Netflix.
10 hours to watch · 9 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2020
- Release date
- 2020-04-15
- Network
- Netflix
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 93/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (36 votes)
About
If you’re drawn to true-crime documentaries that question the justice system, this is a compelling pick in the vein of The Confession Tapes and TIME: The Kalief Browder Story; Not for you if slow, emotionally heavy series wear you down.
Pros: gripping real cases; eye-opening perspective; emotionally powerful | Cons: slow pacing; repetitive at times; frustrating subject matter
Themes
- miniseries
- true crime
- reenactment
Cast & crew
Directed by Jed Rothstein, Andy Grieve, Sarah Dowland +3 more
Created by Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams
Episodes1 season · 9 episodes
Season 19 episodes
- S1E1The Evidence: Indeed and Without Doubt58mNetflix
- S1E2The Evidence: The Truth Will Defend Me51mNetflix
- S1E3The Evidence: The Duty to Correct58mNetflix
- S1E4The Witness: The Murder of Donald Sarpy53mNetflix
- S1E5The Witness: The Trials of Franky Carrillo57mNetflix
- S1E6The Witness: Making Memory70mNetflix
- S1E7The Prosecution: Wrong Place, Wrong Time86mNetflix
- S1E8The Prosecution: Hidden Alibi74mNetflix
- S1E9The Prosecution: The Million Dollar Man66mNetflix