Plot Synopsis

Directed by Floyd Russ, AMERICAN MANHUNT: THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING is a three-part documentary series that uses archive footage, re-enactments and exclusive interviews to shed new light on a tragedy -- and two brothers -- that suspended a city in terror. Patriots' Day in Boston is a time to celebrate: Spring is in the air, the Red Sox play at Fenway, and the whole town turns out to cheer the Boston Marathon's journey from the suburbs to the center of the city. When two home-grown terrorists bombed the marathon's finish line in 2013, the biggest party of the year exploded into carnage, and as law enforcement launched an unprecedented investigation into the bombers' identities, their pursuit spilled over into the streets of formerly-quiet neighborhoods, paralyzing the city and gripping our post-9/11 world. To mark the tenth anniversary of the tragedy, this three-part series centers around the tense, terrifying days that followed the attacks, with 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 the police officers, FBI agents, and ordinary citizens. All three installments of AMERICAN MANHUNT: THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING dropped on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 on Netflix.