non-fiction

Long-running, four-decade-spanning, true crime and paranormal series Unsolved Mysteries is putting back on its trenchcoat and firing up the fog machines, with Netflix, Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy, and his company 21 Laps Entertainment set to revive the franchise. The streaming service's Unsolved Mysteries' 12-episode season will use re-enactments in a documentary format to profile (one […]

HBO and Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) are ready to pull back the curtain on one of the most important moments in the history of modern cyber warfare with the new limited series Stuxnet (working title). Based on Gibney's 2016 cyberwarfare documentary Zero Days, the project focuses on […]

Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Hulu's new dramatic series The Looming Tower focuses on the rivalry and distrust between the CIA and FBI throughout the '90s that may have laid the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attack. With the limited series set to bow next […]

With what might be one of 2018's more controversial series, Hulu's new dramatic series The Looming Tower focuses on the rivalry and distrust between the CIA and FBI throughout the '90s that may have laid the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attack. Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning account, the series will examine how a […]

Television is heading for a different type of "nuclear age," with Pulse Films optioning Vanity Fair journalist William Langewiesche's book for new scripted series The Atomic Bazaar. Set in the shadowy world of nuclear trafficking — from the compounds of wealthy drug lords to secret CIA and MI6 bases — the series is set to be […]

AMC was made an offer it couldn't refuse, closing a co-production pact with the BBC and securing North American broadcast rights for international organized crime thriller McMafia.Created by Hossein Amini (The Alienist) and James Watkins (The Woman In Black) from a script by Watkins and inspired by Misha Glenny's best-selling non-fiction book McMafia will also premiere[...]

What makes Mahnke's podcast truly unique is that he relies solely on non-fiction, historical events that have been exhaustively researched for accuracy Lore is usually released on Mondays and airs on a bi-weekly basis.In less than three years, Lore has earned a number of awards, including  iTunes Best of 2015 Award; and Best History Podcast[...]

By Cameron Hatheway [Nate Powell (left), John Lewis, and Andrew Aydin on Edmund Pettus Bridge, photo by Sandi Villarreal] This month saw the release of March: Book Two by Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell from Top Shelf Productions. Spanning through the tumultuous years of 1961-1963 with the Freedom Riders, jail time, and […]

As you may deduce from the title, this is non-fiction and likely to strike the fancy of readers who have an affinity for New York or the big city and the ways in which it’s presented in comics format The historically-minded or people with an interest in architecture will, of course, give suitably moderated squees[...]