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Looking to get hooked on a new tale of true crime? HBO Max has you covered.Â
The streaming service boasts tons of great documentaries, many of them centered on criminal activity. But for the purposes of this list, we ve limited the definition of the genre to focus exclusively on those all-consuming stories that drive you to marathon-viewing multiple, terrifying tales. You know, those whodunnits â or more often, those why d-they-do-its â that plunge you into a rabbit hole of armchair psychology, amateur sleuthing, and nonfiction nightmares.
Here are the 19 most gripping true crime projects, both series and films, now on HBO Max.
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Does the Guinness Book of World Records have an entry for the politician fastest to apologize for Thought Crimes about ethnic issues?
I figured Sen. Trent Lott held the world championship in the apology Olympics. But now comes Rep. James Moran, who seems to have trounced even the Mississippi senator in the belly-crawl competition.
Mr. Moran s offense, as the world now knows, was to say that American Jews have played a large role in pushing the United States into the coming war with Iraq and thereby utter what is supposed to be unutterable about Jewish power and Jewish loyalty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has given us a whole slew of shorthand phrases for dystopian or oppressive governments and surveillance, but even if you’ve already read about Winston Smith’s struggle against Big Brother, there are a few facts, stories, and theories about the novel that are worth a closer look.
1. It almost wasn’t called
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Before
Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, Orwell was wracked with indecision about it. For a while, he considered the title The Last Man in Europe.
2. George Orwell had trouble deciding what year to set the story in.
Before assigning his fearful prognostications to the year 1984, Orwell based the novel in both 1980 and 1982.
The College states that an NCHI should be recorded when it is established that a criminal offence has not taken place but the victim or any other person perceives that the incident was motivated wholly or partially by hostility .
NCHIs can show up if someone applies for a job, such as to work with children or vulnerable adults, and goes through an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Today s report, titled An Orwellian Society, warns that because records of NCHIs can be made after an anonymous accusation, this could encourage a culture of denunciation hitherto unknown in the UK .
The report s author, Dr Radomir Tylecote, adds that police officers should be trusted to use their common sense to decide if reported activity constitutes a crime and not record it if it does not .