Face it, you’re done with “Tiger King,” and you’re desperately looking for your next Netflix true-crime bingewatch. Well, never one to disappoint, the streaming platform has the next docuseries ready to go this month, but “The Innocence Files” probably isn’t going to inspire as many memes as Joe Exotic.
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As seen in the trailer, “The Innocence Files” is a much more serious affair than “Tiger King” and focuses on the story of The Innocence Project and eight cases that the organization helped fight. For those not familiar, The Innocence Project is a group that was founded to help wrongfully convicted individuals get another day in court. And given the broken justice system that we currently have in the United States, there are plenty of these cases for the organization to handle.
And if the stories of these wrongfully convicted folks aren’t enough to get your attention, perhaps the lineup of filmmakers working on the project will. Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams, Jed Rothstein, Andy Grieve, and Sarah Dowland are all credited as directors on the nine-episode series.
“The Innocence Files” debuts on Netflix on April 15. You can watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis:
The Innocence Files shines a light on the untold personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the nonprofit organization the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have uncovered and worked tirelessly to overturn. The nine-episode series is composed of three compelling parts – The Evidence, The Witness and The Prosecution. These stories expose difficult truths about the state of America’s deeply flawed criminal justice system, while showing when the innocent are convicted, it is not just one life that is irreparably damaged forever: families, victims of crime and trust in the system are also broken in the process.
