2023·Documentary·3 episodes
7.8
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Archive footage, chilling reenactments and exclusive interviews shed new light on a tragedy — and two brothers — that suspended a city in terror.
Created by Tiller Russell and Aaron Ginsburg
miniseries
true crime
terrorist bombing
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Cast
William B. Evans
Self - Superintendent, Boston Police Department
Rick Deslauriers
Self - Special Agent in Charge, FBI
Crew
Aaron Ginsburg
Executive Producer
Kerstin Emhoff
Executive Producer
Jackie Johnson
Dialogue Editor
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70 reviews
Ellie Pamela
8.0★ · 04/24/26
the best explanation, run down, cause + effect ive seen of this tragedy.
i chose to research the boston marathon bombing for my modern history project; im allowed to curate one essay question that relates to an event from 1765-2015. i was going to talk about the impact the bombing had on the boston community, but the third episode ‘you cant interview a corpse’ focused on how tamerlan tsarnaev and dzhokhar tsarnaev were quite literally drawn and conditioned to a muslim extremist regime after having mutual agreement that america has an injust system thats been put in place for the muslim community. and it made me reflect, the radicalisation of youths—more specifically religious-extremist males—has caused detrimental chaos for communities all over the world to the point where the system of which these young men are placed into, influenced by, and oppressed by should be investigated further rather than brushed off as ‘the individuals choice of action’. as this documentary cleverly stated, “you are not born as marathon bombers, you are grown into one”.
thats why, i decided to have my essay question be: to what extent were the motives of the boston marathon bombing influenced by self-radicalisation and other extreme ideologies?
the only thing stopping this documentary from being near a 5 is the straight up worship of the police during this time, policeman who were unauthorised to even be in duty during dzhokhar’s boat standoff shouldve been discussed more. how media outlets treated the situation was beyond poor, it was straight up bullshit. i believe the sheer propaganda that this documentary had that surrounded the glorification of policemen who shot into homes while trying to negotiate with the brothers and the fbi’s links to tamerlan and the waltham homicide being discarded prior to the bombing is shameful. it is citizens such as danny meng, who gained courage to escape his hostage from the tsarnaevs and to alert police the tracking number of the mercedes they stole, that genuinely prevented tamerlan and dzhokhar from causing any further harm to innocent civilians, not the police who were cheered and praised for shooting hundreds of bullets at dzhokhar while billy evans told them to remove themselves from the scene completely.
but other than that, overall incredibly emotional, i feel for everyone affected. they deserved a better patriot’s day, full of fun, friends, family, and the marathon rather than a deadly bombing that had people fearing for their safety in the city of boston.
i chose to research the boston marathon bombing for my modern history project; im allowed to curate one essay question that relates to an event from 1765-2015. i was going to talk about the impact the bombing had on the boston community, but the third episode ‘you cant interview a corpse’ focused on how tamerlan tsarnaev and dzhokhar tsarnaev were quite literally drawn and conditioned to a muslim extremist regime after having mutual agreement that america has an injust system thats been put in place for the muslim community. and it made me reflect, the radicalisation of youths—more specifically religious-extremist males—has caused detrimental chaos for communities all over the world to the point where the system of which these young men are placed into, influenced by, and oppressed by should be investigated further rather than brushed off as ‘the individuals choice of action’. as this documentary cleverly stated, “you are not born as marathon bombers, you are grown into one”.
thats why, i decided to have my essay question be: to what extent were the motives of the boston marathon bombing influenced by self-radicalisation and other extreme ideologies?
the only thing stopping this documentary from being near a 5 is the straight up worship of the police during this time, policeman who were unauthorised to even be in duty during dzhokhar’s boat standoff shouldve been discussed more. how media outlets treated the situation was beyond poor, it was straight up bullshit. i believe the sheer propaganda that this documentary had that surrounded the glorification of policemen who shot into homes while trying to negotiate with the brothers and the fbi’s links to tamerlan and the waltham homicide being discarded prior to the bombing is shameful. it is citizens such as danny meng, who gained courage to escape his hostage from the tsarnaevs and to alert police the tracking number of the mercedes they stole, that genuinely prevented tamerlan and dzhokhar from causing any further harm to innocent civilians, not the police who were cheered and praised for shooting hundreds of bullets at dzhokhar while billy evans told them to remove themselves from the scene completely.
but other than that, overall incredibly emotional, i feel for everyone affected. they deserved a better patriot’s day, full of fun, friends, family, and the marathon rather than a deadly bombing that had people fearing for their safety in the city of boston.
the best explanation, run down, cause + effect ive seen of this tragedy.
i chose to research the boston marathon bombing for my modern history project; im allowed to curate one essay question that relates to an event from 1765-2015. i was going to talk about the impact the bombing had on the boston community, but the third episode ‘you cant interview a corpse’ focused on how tamerlan tsarnaev and dzhokhar tsarnaev were quite literally drawn and conditioned to a muslim extremist regime after having mutual agreement that america has an injust system thats been put in place for the muslim community. and it made me reflect, the radicalisation of youths—more specifically religious-extremist males—has caused detrimental chaos for communities all over the world to the point where the system of which these young men are placed into, influenced by, and oppressed by should be investigated further rather than brushed off as ‘the individuals choice of action’. as this documentary cleverly stated, “you are not born as marathon bombers, you are grown into one”.
thats why, i decided to have my essay question be: to what extent were the motives of the boston marathon bombing influenced by self-radicalisation and other extreme ideologies?
the only thing stopping this documentary from being near a 5 is the straight up worship of the police during this time, policeman who were unauthorised to even be in duty during dzhokhar’s boat standoff shouldve been discussed more. how media outlets treated the situation was beyond poor, it was straight up bullshit. i believe the sheer propaganda that this documentary had that surrounded the glorification of policemen who shot into homes while trying to negotiate with the brothers and the fbi’s links to tamerlan and the waltham homicide being discarded prior to the bombing is shameful. it is citizens such as danny meng, who gained courage to escape his hostage from the tsarnaevs and to alert police the tracking number of the mercedes they stole, that genuinely prevented tamerlan and dzhokhar from causing any further harm to innocent civilians, not the police who were cheered and praised for shooting hundreds of bullets at dzhokhar while billy evans told them to remove themselves from the scene completely.
but other than that, overall incredibly emotional, i feel for everyone affected. they deserved a better patriot’s day, full of fun, friends, family, and the marathon rather than a deadly bombing that had people fearing for their safety in the city of boston.
i chose to research the boston marathon bombing for my modern history project; im allowed to curate one essay question that relates to an event from 1765-2015. i was going to talk about the impact the bombing had on the boston community, but the third episode ‘you cant interview a corpse’ focused on how tamerlan tsarnaev and dzhokhar tsarnaev were quite literally drawn and conditioned to a muslim extremist regime after having mutual agreement that america has an injust system thats been put in place for the muslim community. and it made me reflect, the radicalisation of youths—more specifically religious-extremist males—has caused detrimental chaos for communities all over the world to the point where the system of which these young men are placed into, influenced by, and oppressed by should be investigated further rather than brushed off as ‘the individuals choice of action’. as this documentary cleverly stated, “you are not born as marathon bombers, you are grown into one”.
thats why, i decided to have my essay question be: to what extent were the motives of the boston marathon bombing influenced by self-radicalisation and other extreme ideologies?
the only thing stopping this documentary from being near a 5 is the straight up worship of the police during this time, policeman who were unauthorised to even be in duty during dzhokhar’s boat standoff shouldve been discussed more. how media outlets treated the situation was beyond poor, it was straight up bullshit. i believe the sheer propaganda that this documentary had that surrounded the glorification of policemen who shot into homes while trying to negotiate with the brothers and the fbi’s links to tamerlan and the waltham homicide being discarded prior to the bombing is shameful. it is citizens such as danny meng, who gained courage to escape his hostage from the tsarnaevs and to alert police the tracking number of the mercedes they stole, that genuinely prevented tamerlan and dzhokhar from causing any further harm to innocent civilians, not the police who were cheered and praised for shooting hundreds of bullets at dzhokhar while billy evans told them to remove themselves from the scene completely.
but other than that, overall incredibly emotional, i feel for everyone affected. they deserved a better patriot’s day, full of fun, friends, family, and the marathon rather than a deadly bombing that had people fearing for their safety in the city of boston.
Max Ironman
8.0★ · 04/21/26
Find a girl who loves you the way Danny Meng loves his Mercedes ML350
Find a girl who loves you the way Danny Meng loves his Mercedes ML350
Jesse Eerens
7.0★ · 03/14/26
Never expected this to be such a big case, those guys were insane. I never heard of this before so it was pretty interesting. Well made!
Never expected this to be such a big case, those guys were insane. I never heard of this before so it was pretty interesting. Well made!
Bailey G
8.0★ · 08/11/25
holy moly guacamole
holy moly guacamole
Philipp
6.0★ · 07/06/25
Perfect documented…
Perfect documented…