Archival footage, bone-chilling re-enactments and exclusive interviews come together to shine a new light on one of the most terrifying domestic terrorist attacks in the USA, in a new documentary coming to Netflix this week.
Directed by Floyd Russ, the American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing docuseries is being released today, April 12, almost exactly 10 years to the day since the horrifying attack.
On April 15, 2013, two terrorists, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, which detonated 14 seconds and 190 metres apart at 2.49pm, near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring hundreds, including 17 who lost limbs.
The three-part series will dissect the days that followed the attacks, assembling a minute-by-minute recounting of the manhunt from thousands of hours of closed-circuit video, police radio and cell phone footage, as well as testimony from police officers, FBI agents, and ordinary citizens whose heroics led to the killers’ capture.