TV-MA | 2h 57min | Documentary, Crime, History | 12 April 2023 (USA)
While not nearly as deadly or widespread as the coordinated attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, nonetheless shook the nation to its core while reminding us that evil never rests; it only takes breaks.
As with 2001, the 2013 destruction was conceived and executed by Muslim extremists, only these weren’t Saudi nationals. They were two Kyrgyz-American brothers of Chechen descent raised in the very city they so wantonly terrorized.
A scene of chaos as a bomb goes off during the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 in “American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing.” (Netflix)
Released nearly a decade to the day after the attack, the three-part Netflix docuseries “American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing” (“Manhunt”) does a fairly decent job of presenting the event itself while providing illuminating backstories of both victims and the perpetrators along with commentary from multiple legal and law enforcement individuals present at the time….