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- 2020
- HBO
- 2020
- HBO
Summary The five-part documentary series looks into the cases of kidnapping and murder of at least 30 African-American children, aged 7 to 17, in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981 that were recently reopened by the Atlanta Police Department in 2019 (and dramatized in the second season of Netflix's Mindhunter).
- 2020
- HBO
- 2020
- HBO
Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 5, 2020
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Summary The five-part documentary series looks into the cases of kidnapping and murder of at least 30 African-American children, aged 7 to 17, in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981 that were recently reopened by the Atlanta Police Department in 2019 (and dramatized in the second season of Netflix's Mindhunter).
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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Unsettling and engrossing, “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” is a must watch. It will leave audiences baffled and enraged over how justice for these wicked, unusually extreme crimes, has yet to be properly served.
What the series does brilliantly is showing various vantage points—giving the viewer enough information to decide what side they’re on.
However juicy something like "Tiger King" might be, the best documentary series connect the subject to larger issues that go beyond one case. So it is with Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, a look back at the child murders of 40 years ago, and the legacy and doubts that linger to this day.
You might walk away from this series thinking that the case was correctly solved. You might walk away thinking it was merely closed to stop a race war from destroying the city. But you will definitely walk away with a clearer picture of why this story remains such a vital part of Atlanta’s history. It still feels like its final chapter has yet to be written.
Everybody has an opinion or a gut feeling or a theory in the engrossing, sobering HBO five-part docu-series.
"Atlanta's Missing and Murdered" is not an easy watch, nor should it be. ... Yes, this is a true crime story, as well as one that delves into matters of guilt, innocence and a broken (often historically racist) criminal justice system — but it's also a contemplation of what closure actually looks like for those affected by violent, race-based crime.
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered does justice to a couple of the criticisms, and it certainly provides a more cogent picture of the city, the time, and the crimes than the haphazard and gullible Atlanta Monster podcast did two years ago. But the HBO series also succumbs to the imperatives of a plot-twist narrative. It seems driven more by the need to entertain than a desire to get at the truth.
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Production Company:
- Show of Force
- Get Lifted Film Company
- HBO Documentary Films
- Roc Nation
Initial Release Date: Apr 5, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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Awards
International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
AAFCA TV Honors
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination
