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Manson: 40 Years Later

Nearly 40 years after he masterminded the Tate/La Bianca murders, Charles Manson remains an icon of evil, and a subject of fascination the world over. He was the mastermind of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, a crazed guru who terrified the world and plunged the city of Los Angeles into a state of paranoia and panic. This two-hour docudrama from HISTORY takes viewers deep inside a twisted world of hate, fear,sexual transgression, and mind‐control. At the heart of this obsession lies the question: How did one man convince a group of hippies – mostly young women from good middle American families - to murder complete strangers in such a brutal fashion? Intertwining first-person accounts with rare archive footage, "Manson" looks back at the nine months leading up to and including the brutal murder of Sharon Tate, the Manson family's most famous victim, four decades after her bludgeoning. This feature-length docu-drama shot in HD, tells the story of the final days leading up to

English
  • Runtime 90 minutes
  • Network History
  • Sensitive Content & Trigger Warnings Abuse Blood Profanity
  • Notes Is a season finale
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