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By John-Michael Bond
The Daily Dot
Amazon Prime has thousands of titles to choose from in its catalog, including a stunning array of documentaries. However, unless you’re really into UFOs, it can sometimes be difficult to sort through all the fluff to find the good stuff. Below, we present you with a list of the best documentaries on Amazon Prime. From true crime to music to professional skateboarding, this list has a little bit of everything for discerning documentary fans…
By Nitya Chablani
Vogue - Culture & Living
Think horror stories are scary? These real life, cold blooded crime cases may just be worse. If you're up for a few sleepless nights, add these to your must-watch list…
By THRILLIST ENTERTAINMENT
Streaming (plus a burning desire to watch something) is the great equalizer. When you're sifting through zillions of movie options, the best documentaries can go toe to toe with Hollywood blockbusters. Fiction or nonfiction - doesn't really matter. A movie's a movie, and if it's moving/crazy/hilarious enough, it's worth a watch. Here's an array of documentaries on Amazon that fit the bill…
By Sherronda J. Brown
Wear Your Voice Magazine
The reason we don’t hear more about Black serial killers is not because they don’t exist. It’s because their victims are rarely newsworthy enough to get the same amount of coverage as white victims…
By Stan B.
Based on a True Story (Blog)
Unseen* is simply made, but wide in scope; it is not a documentary about a serial killer. At this point, I find most anything to do with serial killers rather played and gratuitous in just about every possible manner imaginable. But Laura Paglin goes far beyond the usual serial killer conventions and priorities. This killer is but another nameless actor in a world already seething with anonymous hurt and pain…
'UNSEEN': Part of 'Must Watch'
foxtel: Crime + Investigation
In 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of known sex offender Anthony Sowell. The stench of death had hovered over the neighborhood for two years prior to the discovery, as the women’s bodies laid in the house and yard rotting...
By Norman Gidney
Film Threat
After a two-year period during which numerous women were reported missing in Cleveland’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, a reported rape leads police to a grisly discovery: a serial killer, operating virtually in plain sight.
Unseen is a brilliant new documentary from filmmaker Laura Paglin that takes the viewer through a staggering checklist of emotions...
By Chris Ball
The Plain Dealer
Five survivors of Anthony Sowell's house of horrors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood take center stage in this dark 2016 documentary. Cleveland filmmaker Laura Paglin tells the convicted serial killer's shameful story through the victims' perspective. Melvette Sockwell, Vanessa Gay, Latundra "Lala" Billups, Shawn Morris and Gladys Wade lived to tell how they were lured into his death trap...
Cleveland 19 News
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -
It was the crime that sent shock waves through the city of Cleveland and across the country.
Believe it or not, it's been close to 10 years since 11 bodies were found in and around the Imperial Avenue home of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell.
A new documentary called "Unseen," produced and directed by local filmmaker Laura Paglin, tells the story of what was uncovered in October of 2009 through the voices of the women who survived the grips of Sowell...
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell – In 2009, a Cleveland Police SWAT team entered Anthony Sowell’s home to arrest him on a sexual assault complaint. Inside, police found a nightmarish scene: The bodies of 11 women were strewn throughout the house and buried in the back yard. House of Horrors author Robert Sberna takes audience members into the mind of a killer by discussing his interviews with Sowell’s surviving victims, family, neighbors, and even Sowell himself. Filmmaker Laura Paglin, whose film Unseen examines the Sowell case, will discuss the plight of Sowell’s victims and the failings of the criminal justice system in this tragic episode...