Raw series based on true events on Netflix about the pursuit of justice

The catalog of Netflix has several series based on real events which portray the experiences of people who have personally experienced injustices that have become even more complex due to the lack of support from the authorities or the state; but who, despite this, continued to seek the justice they deserved.

Here’s how they see us

One of the crudest series based on real events that the streaming platform has in its catalog is’ Así Nos Ven ‘, also known by its English name,’When we see each other’. In this production by Ava DuVey, the true story of Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Kevin Richardson, the Central Park Five, is known.

This case is that of five Afro-descendant and Latino children and adolescents accused of raping and physically assaulting a young white woman who ran through Central Park, the famous park where they were together with other friends that evening who experienced a series of ailments. Wrongly and with the help of a racist prison system, they were prosecuted and imprisoned, until the truth came out many years later.

Inconceivable

Another of the Netflix productions that has had a lot of impact on the audience due to the storyline it tells is ‘Inconceivable’, a series by Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon with Toni Collette, Merritt Wever and Kaitlyn Dever, in which together they bring in life the true story told in the article “An Unbelievable Story of Rape”.

This text is a sort of investigation and chronicle that delves into a series of rapes that took place in Chicago and Colorado between 2008 and 2011. It tries to show the lack of empathy that the authorities have towards the victims of this type of crime and how they reject his testimony when he is in a far more vulnerable situation than anyone else.

Story of a crime: Colosio

Between series with true stories that Netflix has on its service is “History of a crime: Colosio”, which is the first episode of the anthology “History of a crime”, on several cases that occurred in Latin America. On this occasion it is the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio, who was killed while he was in the campaign for the presidency of Mexico.

The murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio was one of the political crimes that shook Mexico the most, as he was one of the few presidential candidates who had really convinced the population to vote for him and also because his murder took place in a full meeting of people going to support him.