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Shiny Happy People
The Duggar family represented the cheery face of Christian fundamentalism, until a sexual-abuse scandal hit. Daughter Jill Duggar Dillard and family friends reveal all in this new docuseries, which paints the Duggars’ popular TLC reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, as propaganda for disgraced minister Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles. Prime
Burden of Proof
Years after the 1987 disappearance of 15-year-old Jennifer Pandos, her brother accuses their parents of criminal culpability. But the ensuing police investigation of his parents leads to different answers than expected in this suspenseful new fourpart documentary. Max
Stories We Tell
Diane Polley was a freespirited woman who gave up an acting career to be a fulltime wife and mother. In this remarkable 2012 documentary, her filmmaker daughter, Sarah, gingerly investigates the secrets her mother kept, including the extramarital affair that led to Sarah’s birth. YouTube
Little White Lie
Lacey Schwartz grew up thinking of herself as a white Jewish kid, until she went to college and realized that her father must have been Black and her loving white Jewish parents had withheld the truth from her. Prime
51 Birch Street
Doug Block thought his parents had a happy marriage. But when his mother dies and his father abruptly decides to move to Florida with another woman, Block starts digging for answers, discovering a riveting alternate family history. $4 on demand
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki’s 2003 documentary classic captures the implosion of a Long Island family as a father and son confront explosive child sex abuse charges. Hulu