Explore shocking real cases through Max’s compelling true crime documentary collection.

Snakes in the Pulpit: “Alabama Snake”

Down South, there’s this story so wild you’ll swear someone made it up.

“Alabama Snake” follows Glenn Summerford, a preacher who handled venomous snakes as part of his faith and supposedly tried to kill his wife by making her stick her hand in a rattlesnake cage. Talk about a nightmare husband!

The way director Theo Love tells it, you feel like you’re watching some kind of backwoods horror movie, except it all actually happened.

When someone twists religion into something dangerous, things get scary fast.

The film shows how faith can turn into something dark when it falls into the wrong hands.

Behind the Lens: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

Ever seen those raw, honest photos that make you feel like you’re peeking into someone’s private life? That’s Nan Goldin’s work.

This doc flips things around and shows us the woman who took all those powerful pictures of AIDS patients and abuse survivors.

Her photos tell stories that most people try to ignore.

What’s cool is how the film connects her art to her current fight against the Sackler family and their role in getting so many people hooked on painkillers.

It’s about using your talent to fight back against powerful people who don’t care who they hurt.

Sometimes the real heroes aren’t on magazine covers.

Web of Nightmares: “Beware the Slenderman”

Remember hearing about those two young girls who stabbed their friend to please some made-up internet monster.

Gave me goosebumps. “Beware the Slenderman” digs into how online stories can mess with kids’ heads in really scary ways.

Makes you want to check your kid’s internet history, right?

But it’s not just about some creepy tall dude in a suit. The film really gets into mental health issues and how we’re letting kids down.

The real scary stuff isn’t hiding in the shadows – it’s in the stories kids find online and the fact that we don’t have enough mental health support for them.

Badge of Suspicion: “A Body in the Snow”

So a cop’s body turns up in the snow, and everyone points to his girlfriend, Karen Read. Open and shut case? Not so fast.

“A Body in the Snow” makes you wonder if corrupt cops set her up to protect one of their own. One death tears this whole town apart like nothing you’ve ever seen.

Suddenly, neighbors aren’t speaking, friends become enemies, and nobody knows what version of the story to believe.

The series shows how justice can get twisted when the people in charge have something to hide.

Sometimes, the people supposed to protect the truth are the ones burying it.

Haunted by the Past: “Burden of Proof”

Some family secrets eat away at you forever. Stephen Pandos gets this weird, casual call that his sister disappeared, and it sends him on this decades-long hunt for answers.

“Burden of Proof” follows him digging through his messy family history while hitting wall after wall of cover-ups.

The show gets into how trauma ripples through generations.

Stephen’s dad, a Vietnam vet dealing with PTSD, casts this huge shadow over everything.

Sometimes, finding the truth means facing the darkest parts of the people you thought you knew.