Becoming Evil: Serial Killers of the Old West vs Capturing the Friedmans
Capturing the Friedmans has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 4.5/10 for Becoming Evil: Serial Killers of the Old West). Capturing the Friedmans is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 1h 48m. Capturing the Friedmans is the older of the two (2003 against 2021). Both are crime, documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Becoming Evil: Serial Killers of the Old West
Capturing the Friedmans| Becoming Evil: Serial Killers of the Old West | Capturing the Friedmans | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 4.5/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2021 | 2003 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 47m |
| Genres | Crime, Documentary | Crime, Documentary |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Ronald C. Meyer | Andrew Jarecki |
| Main cast | Tom Kimball, Bob Boze Bell, Nick Volich, Kathy Weiser-Alexander, Rick Beyer | Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Jesse Friedman, Seth Friedman |
Synopsis
Becoming Evil: Serial Killers of the Old West
American serial killers are hardly a phenomenon confined to the 20th and 21st centuries. The Old West was a well-known time of lawlessness. A time when serial killers stalked the mountains, prairies and deserts of North America. A time when men like, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, and the Kentucky cannibal left a trail of victims strewn across the landscape. The ruthlessness of their murders will shock in this feature-length…
Capturing the Friedmans
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
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