
The Shocking Truth
This compelling documentary series digs deep into notorious real-life murders and paranormal events and explores how Hollywood turned them into its most memorable thrillers.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Shocking Truth: The Silence of the Lambs
06-02-201722mTed Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in history when author Thomas Harris used him as his inspiration for the murderous "Buffalo Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs...
- Ep 2
2.The Shocking Truth: The Amityville Horror
06-02-201722mIt's a home right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. But behind the walls of the picturesque three-story house on 112 Ocean Avenue, in lay a deep dark secret. It was the site of br...
- Ep 3
3.The Shocking Truth: The Exorcist
20-02-201722mIt's 1949 and a strange series of inexplicable events have turned a small brick home in St. Louis into a scene straight from hell. A 13-year-old boy is at the center of a series of...
- Ep 4
4.The Shocking Truth: Goodfellas
20-02-201722mHenry Hill knew he wanted to be a gangster by the time he was 13 years old. But after 20 years of gambling, arson and drug dealing and the infamous Luftansa Heist, he was running f...
- Ep 5
5.The Shocking Truth: Zodiac
06-03-201722mA cold-blooded killer begins his reign of terror in 1969. A panicked San Francisco lies in the grip of fear. Nobody knows where - or when - he will strike next. In his taunts to lo...
- Ep 6
6.The Shocking Truth: The Conjuring
06-03-201722mThe Conjuring is one of the scariest movies of all time, but the shocking truth is that the horrifying events that happened in the movie really happened to the Perron Family in the...
- Ep 7
7.The Shocking Truth: Psycho
13-03-201722mOn the surface, he looks perfectly harmless. But behind those innocent looking eyes is the soul of a killer. Norman Bates from Psycho is one of the most memorable psychopaths in mo...
- Ep 8
8.The Shocking Truth: Foxcatcher
13-03-201722mAs the heir to a billion dollar fortune, John Eleuthere du Pont, could buy whatever or whoever he wanted. When the avid wrestling fan persuades gold-medal winner Dave Schultz to jo...
- Ep 9
9.The Shocking Truth: Natural Born Killers
20-03-201722mIn 1957, Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree that shocks people to this day. With his girlfriend Caril Anne Fugate in tow, the two cut a swath across the peaceful Nebraska...
- Ep 10
10.The Shocking Truth: Fargo
20-03-201722mDanish flight attendant Helle Crafts goes mysteriously missing after starting divorce proceedings against her philandering husband. Her body is never found but police discover enou...
- Ep 11
11.The Shocking Truth: Monster
27-03-201722mRichard Mallory was an electronics-store owner in Florida who went missing November 30, 1989. When county police discovered his car the next day, they suspected foul play, but no o...
- Ep 12
12.The Shocking Truth: Jaws
27-03-201722mDuring the summer of 1916, the resort beaches of the Jersey Shore ran red with blood. For 12 days the Jersey man-eater terrorized the Eastern Seaboard. Five people were attacked an...
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