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Nobody will forget the footage from The Boston Marathon, the explosions that caused deaths, injury and so much upset. This three part documentary series explores who was behind it, and why, as well as the shocking series of events that followed.

In comparison with some more recent documentaries, this one was streets ahead, very detailed and factual, not only did they try to give context, but they also tried to explain the how and why, just how the brothers ended up committing their horrendous acts.

The second episode is one of the most shocking, but interesting things I've seen in some time, it's truly like something out of a well imagined action thriller.

Some very revealing and interesting interviews, you'll get some powerful insight into events, first hand.

Definitely worth seeing, 8/10.

This three-part series is a broad and profound look into the events, and people, connected with the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon. It's an especially interesting character study of those who were responsible for the bombing, and of those who were most affected on the day of the Marathon- and the week that followed. The actual terrorists, the local Boston Police, the FBI, along with the local and National Media, are all examined and well represented. Those who were interviewed all have very intriguing stories to tell. Extremely well edited and produced with emotional testimonies. It was compelling from start to finish. I highly recommend this docuseries as it was well worth the three hours. I give it a strong 8. If you're even remotely interested to know what happened at the 2013 Boston Marathon, watch this, right now.

Other than having viewed other documentaries, and a recent drama tv-series about the triple murder that happened a few months before the marathon bombings, that this maybe one of the sturdiest and most neutral of them all.

Based on interviews of victims, runners, friends and law enforcement , a massive surge of new reels and amateur footage and stills, and lets not forget the terrible heartshooting sounds of screams and the shootouts from the manhunt.

What i miss though , is the part that i find most peculiar that they do not air, is the lack of interviews from the initial custodial moments, there must be hundreds of hours of search and research from the criminologists and psychologists that mustve interviewed the culprit, and this documentary doesnt give you a clue what happened in the courts. That should be the next story to tell for us non bostoners and non citizens of the usa(im norwegian).

Im not calling out for an hero, cause that is of course all the massachutinarians, but a bit more of the works of miss justicia wouldnt harm the case. As a conclusion i would say that matters of this kind will never come to an end, and im afraid that something like this will happen again. So in the mean time my message to the survivors and the people that lost loved ones, STAY STRONG FOREVER, and stay together in the memory of the deceased.

Well made and intense documentary, a recommend from the grumpy old man.

The elder brother did not make the Olympic trials not because he was Muslim, but simply because he was not a US citizen. His father probably did not know this when boasting that his son would represent their adopted country in boxing. While the documentary expertly stitches together the footage of events, and testimonies from police, FBI, victims and journalists, it fails to spend enough time scrutinising the parents, who separated and abandoned their sons to return to Dagestan. Why did they return to Dagestan and what about their other two children?

The younger brother was described as charismatic and popular in high school but photos of him revealed an emptiness in his eyes. The charm was nothing more than a facade and survival strategy of someone who was not emotionally nourished by his family or community. It seems no coincidence that the both brothers chose to participate and identify with violent sports, instead of taking up chess or tennis. They were the product of inter-generational trauma that began with their grandfather being persecuted for being Chechen and resulted in their father's narcissism.

The father needed his children to be successful in their new country and pushed both sons to achieve. It was the shame from letting his father down by failing to make the Olympic trials that drove the elder brother to radicalisation. He could not blame his father for having lofty expectations so instead he blamed his adopted country and its Islamophobia, and recruited his own brother to his misguided cause. He could not see the forest for the trees, unlike Danny Meng who is himself a migrant from an oppressive nation and appreciates the opportunities in America in spite of the racism he will inevitably encounter.

Just watch the 3 episodes back to back and I honestly sat in awe. Very rare a documentary gives all sides of the spectrum and in such an honest hard hitting way. Being from another part of the world I remember the event but never realised how long it went on for or the events that took place during it. The makers give you an hour by hour story from the people who were involved. From the top to bottom of the authorities and police. The victims,the public and the culprits are all given to you too. I was gripped after the first 30 minutes and just couldn't switch it off. Your pulled in and want to be there until the end. Which has in my eyes ,the right one too. Give it a go. I can't recommend it enough.

I'm truly shocked to see so many poor reviews! I started watching this on a whim and was in tears within the first five minutes, seeing little children dancing and playing and then BOOM! The shock and terror of the assembled crowd was heart-breaking. Living in the area (and husband working in Boston) it was gripping to see all the home and security videos pieced together to give an overview of events.

As the bombing was on the forefront of the news for days we saw a lot of what was going on with the manhunt. I was transfixed watching this docuseries. Hearing the perspectives of the home videos as well as the calls to 911 and the interviews with peoples involved, both working and victims, gave a gut-wrenching perspective of the events that transpired. I personally feel this was very well made and I'll recommend this to others.

Generally this was a good documentary, not wasting your time, to the point and telling the story from many different perspectives such as the victims, police, fbi, etc. It does miss more proper investigation into their family and actually talking to the perpetrator though.

I would have rated this much higher, if it wasn't for some of their extremely out of place interviewees as Phillip Martin. He's a "journalist" who does nothing but complain about law enforcement, much more concerned about the well-being of the perpetrator than any victim. His narrow-minded ideologies are just glowing. Secondly we have the muslim friend who's also much more concerned about muslims getting a bad reputation, than innocent people getting killed or actually having muslims commit less terrorism. We all know Netflix added these for DEI. It only drags down the integrity of the rest of the series.

That being said. If you can ignore those parts, the rest is a good retelling of the investigation following the bombing.

So I'll start by sharing that the documentary coverage of this tragic event was well done. They did a great job of capturing the horror and trauma of the victims. The viewer is able to really get inside the emptions and shock felt by those present and those impacted by what happened. My heart truly goes out to the victims of this horrible act of terrorism. Another positive is the coverage of the investigation and manhunt for the perpetrators. I thought they did an excellent job of capturing this thing from the perspective of those in law enforcement. But I will say that the choices of some of the other commentary were just horrible. One prime example is the investigative journalist (Phillip Martin). I'm sorry, but this guy was just a joke. Every single thing he said was sharply slanted against law enforcement. He was so painfully transparent in his hate for law enforcement, with nothing but sharp criticism for every single thing they did. The law enforcement officials were tasked with such an incredibly difficult job in this scenario. You can't blame the police because a bomber is shooting at them. Are they not supposed to shoot back? Wasn't it their primary job to bring in the perpetrators and stop them from taking any more acts of terror? If they hadn't caught these guys, who knows what they'd have done next. The investigative journalist obviously had no clue at all about what it's like to be taking fire and putting your life on the line to stop a terrorist. They also interviewed one of the friends of the younger bomber, and he was angered when they finally caught him because they thought he might be dead. How inconceivably insensitive to the victims of these guys' horrible act! Anyway, these views really bothered me and completely turned me off whenever these interviewees opened their mouths. Other than that, it was a good ducumentary about this situation.

I liked this docuseries. I like that the show focused more on the investigation than on the bombers. It didn't glamorize them or make them look 'badass'. It showed them as criminals with miserable life who did terrible things and ruined other's lives.

The series showed real footage, mixed with a reenactment, and interviews that show what happened. It's so sad to see how the bombing messed up the people and the city, but also interesting to see how the city fought back and helped each other. The show also explores the reasons why the guys did it and how they got brainwashed. Overall, i think it's a good docuseries.

This competent docuseries attempts to clarify the complicated case of the Boston Marathon bombings.

As with any tragedy, there's approaching the case in a linear fashion--what happened, how did the authorities attempt to follow up.

The series did an excellent job in reaching out to all of the key investigators involved and getting some honest reactions on film.

The facts are fairly and squarely reported.

Then there's also the context once the criminals are in custody. How did they become domestic terrorists?

And more importantly, how did their actions impact the victims. (Or in this case the community, which came together Boston Strong.)

Putting both the facts and context into one package is difficult with a crime so heinous, but American Manhunt did a satisfactory job.

Viewers might need a content warning, since a lot of the footage is grim, but that's to be expected.

Very well done and sad. Great storytelling and detailing of the events with lots of footage. One of the most overall well constructed documentaries ive seen.

Very well done and sad. Great storytelling and detailing of the events with lots of footage. One of the most overall well constructed documentaries ive seen.

Very well done and sad. Great storytelling and detailing of the events with lots of footage. One of the most overall well constructed documentaries ive seen.

Very well done and sad. Great storytelling and detailing of the events with lots of footage. One of the most overall well constructed documentaries ive seen.

The only thing that was missing for me was at times it felt like too many/irrelevant perspectives were offered that bogged down a tad bit from the actual story.

Great insight on what happened but they spent so much time on far left politics trying to make Islam out to be the victim and how the right wing was wrong to blame then it turns out it was an Islam terrorists attack. This is a typical Netflix way of doing things so not really surprised. The main reporter they used was obviously far left and tried to insert his own agenda then they found some random Islamic student to try to make him out to be the victim. Overall though there was a lot of information that I learned that I was not aware of before. Just know before you watch it that Netflix has to put their own spin on it.

I had never heard of the Boston attack before this documentary series, which is why I found the series interesting and exciting.

The series clearly illustrates the irony behind the attack and similar attacks. Misguided Muslims feel they are being treated unfairly and confronted with racism in the USA and then plan an attack that gives people who already feel hatred and contempt for Islam just another reason to keep it.

It also shows how quickly a person can change fundamentally. It all started when the big brother was not allowed to compete in the Olympic Games and that set a can of worms rolling that ultimately ended with hundreds of injuries and 3 deaths.

I also find it interesting that there were still differences of opinion among the officials regarding this case up until the time this documentary was filmed.

All in all, a documentary worth watching, but I personally found these re-recordings of the "brothers" pretty pointless. The documentary would have worked just as well without them.

This documentary is in the stellar by any means, but it does give you a basic grounding of what happened during the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. I take away from it two conclusions, that the pair of terrorists, two brothers who were the children of Chechen immigrants, were incompetent as terrorists and unfortunately the police chasing them were equally incompetent. Why do I think the terrorists were incompetent? They spent a great deal of time trying to construct bombs to kill and meme the most amount of people, and despite placing the bombs in a very crowded area, they initially only (thankfully) murdered three people and maimed a great deal more. If they had to just use the gun and started shooting they would have killed a lot more people, as America's problems with school shootings can attest. Then later they murdered someone because they were trying to steal his gun but didn't realize that gun holsters have security features which can prevent someone from stealing a gun and so this murder was completely unnecessary. They then hijacked a car and when the owner of the car escaped they didn't realize that they could be tracked using GPS. Then in a confrontation with the police they were separated, and the younger brother actually drove over the older brother and killed him. So in this horrible terrorist attack he killed four people, and one was his own brother. But why do I say the police were incompetent? Well, generally it was a lack of coordination - photos depicting the assailants were leaked to the Press and this caused an escalation of the situation. When the stolen vehicle was found the police who found it just thought that it was a carjacking and not a pair of highly armed terrorists, and several other police agencies responded to the scene and there was a large firefight within a Suburban neighborhood, and it was lucky no bystanders were killed by flying bullets in their houses. This is somewhat forgivable because things were moving at a very quick pace at this point. But then one of the terrorists managed to escape, and there was a citywide manhunt for him. He was found hiding in a boat that was covered by a tarp and the tarp was covered in blood. He was quickly surrounded, when an officer thought that he saw a gun and shot, then the other 30 or 40 officers surrounding the boat also shot at the boat for 2 or 3 minutes before the situation was controlled, and a ceasefire was ordered. The suspect did not have a gun, and it was very lucky he wasn't shot. You might be saying, why does it matter if he was shot or not he's a terrorist? Well, at this point they didn't know that it was only two brothers who had arranged this attack, they thought maybe it could be a larger terrorist group. And also, again, these shots were fired in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. One police officer was shot during the previous confrontation, most likely by friendly fire and killed. In the melee that surrounded the boat there were police officers who were not on duty who volunteered to arrive at the scene which seems like such a breakdown in the chain of command. One only hopes that their training has been updated, and that these problems would not happen in a similar future emergency.

Very weak documentary.

It doesn't do a good job at anything.

It doesn't present the first-hand experience of the horrors of that day.

Even though it was a massive event, they present a single case, without much intricacies in the depiction.

It doesn't do a good job of depicting the methodology of the investigation. It breezes past what was done. Barely explaining how.

It doesn't do a good job of showing the bigger picture.

It's selective about what motives it presents.

It barely covers important parts of the story like the college friends.

Or the Reddit craziness.

It takes a lot of time to play lip service to irrelevant figures in the matter like Obama.

You better watch the Walhberg movie.

From the point of view of a spectator relying on bits and pieces of information from TV and the internet, that week that started with the bombing and ended with the capture of the bombers seemed to me like a hazy nightmare with frantic news reports all jumbled together.

This documentary put all the pieces in order - the bombings, the investigation to find out the perpetrators, the photos of the suspects made public, the killing of the guard at MIT, the kidnapping and carnapping of the mercedez benz, the car owner dashing to a convenience store and making it possible for authorities to track the car, the shoot-out at Watertown, suspect1 getting run-over by suspect2, the hunt for and capture of suspect2.

The thought processes and decisions made by the investigators as well as the background information on the bombers add essential elements to understanding what happened.

Aside from the bombing and the manhunt, the other piece that interested me was the family life of the bombers, starting with being so full of hope when they came to the US, to the parents' divorce, to suspect1's disappointment at not making the Olympics, his murder of his friend, indoctrination by radical Islam and finally committing the heinous crime.

Suspect1 blamed racial discrimination for his failure to make the Olympic team and subsequently, his pessimistic view of his future. Up to what extent did it play a role in this tragic event?

This documentary series was neutral, well rounded, and thorough. I appreciated the different perspectives the directors brought into the documentary and I found the interview questions they asked to be very thought provoking for the subjects. It was definitely interesting to go back in time and follow exactly how the higher ups were dealing with the aftermath of the bombing, as well as their inner thoughts or reservations. There is one aspect I felt wasn't explored deeply enough, and it left me a bit disappointed. Sort of like the documentary ended too soon or on an unfinished note. Tamerlan, the older brother who was killed during the police shootout and ran over by Dzokhar, is dead and clearly cannot be analyzed beyond what the documentary did. I think in his case the directors did a phenomenal job trying to figure out his motives, determine the timeline of his extremist behavior, etc. However, Dzokhar is alive and it's been years since he was detained. There was a trial, more evidence brought to light during it, and he also has family here as well as in Dagestan. Why not comment on his mother's tendency to lean towards extremist rhetoric? Why not explore why his parents divorced? What about his sisters? Personally, there was just more information I expected to see since this was an event from a decade ago. I felt like it would've been insightful to see the aftermath for the Tsarnaev's and understand the family better. But all in all it was an awesome documentary and I highly recommend it!

It is a decent docuseries it is told in a very compelling and engaging way. When a docuseries examines a prior event, it is typically done to complete viewers' memory of it by providing information they might not have known or remembered. In any case, it fills in any gaps that might not have been communicated in the pre-internet and pre-social media era. Although it's startling that the Boston Marathon bombing happened ten years ago, neither of those circumstances existed at the time. Because of this, American Manhunt falls short of fully informing us of information on an incident that was so widely covered that it dominated social media and the news cycle for a week following the explosion of the bombs. In the conclusion it is very informative to viewers who don't know anything about these events. If you followed it back then when it happened you might as well skip it.