Boston Marathon Bombing Docuseries Set At Netflix
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix is exploring the story of the Boston Marathon bombing in a new docuseries. The streamer has ordered three-part series American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing from director Floyd Russ and exec producer Tiller Russell.
The series will explore the tragedy, which saw terrorist bomb the marathon finishin line. It will premiere on April 12, almost ten years to the day of the attack.
The attack was carried about by brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, which killed three people and injured hundreds.
The three-part series will dive into the terrifying days that followed the attacks, assembling a minute-by-minute recounting of the manhunt from thousands of hours of closed-circuit video, police radio, and cell phone footage, as well as testimony from the police officers, FBI agents, and ordinary citizens whose heroics led to the killers’ capture.
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