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New unbelievable Netflix documentary unpacks 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which shook the world and the running community, killing three and injuring more than 200 people. On Wednesday, April 12, Netflix will release a three-part documentary series, American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing, which looks back on the attack and its aftermath, but also on the past 10 years and the events that have transpired since the bombing.
The documentary looks at the four days after the bombing and the 101-hour search for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died on April 19 (four days after the marathon), following a confrontation with Boston police, and after his brother accidentally hit him with a stolen SUV while trying to escape. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to death in 2015. He remains on death row.
American Manhunt also features never-seen interviews with members of law enforcement, such as then-Boston Police Department superintendent William Evans and then-Boston Police commissioner Ed Davis; survivors including Karen McWatters, whose friend Krystle Campbell died in the attack and who lost her leg as a result of the bombing; and Youssef Eddafali, who had been a friend of Dzokhar’s before the bombing, and more.
“It took a very long time for us to be able to contextualize and understand what happened in such an unbelievable manhunt, but also emotionally, in terms of what happened to the victims and to the entire city,” said director Floyd Russ in an interview to The Independent. “There are so many different types of trauma in the story.”
The city of Boston will observe the 10th anniversary of the attacks on Saturday, April 14, with One Boston Day: a day for volunteer events and acts of kindness. There will be a shoe drive, a donation drive for food, baby supplies, and clothing, and a blood drive, plus many other initiatives to honour the city’s “spirit of care for one another in response to the tragic events from 2013.”
The documentary will be released on Netflix U.S. and Canada on April 12.
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