You Can’t Make This Up
The incredible real stories behind the making of the biggest documentary series & films on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie leads in-depth interviews with creators and subjects, exploring how these stories are produced & their impact, while uncovering new information. New episodes every Wednesday. "You Can't Make This Up" is a co-production of Netflix and Partners in Crime Media.
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March 18, 2026 • 35 mins
The Netflix documentary series Dynasty: The Murdochs goes deep inside the succession battle among Rupert Murdoch and his adult children. It shows how Murdoch used a mix of controversy and conservatism to build an empire — but his unwillingness to settle the question of a successor imperiled everything.
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews co-directors Liz Garbus and Sara Enright.
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February 25, 2026 • 40 mins
Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model brings together the stars, producers, and contestants to discuss the show’s success and confront its legacy of problematic segments. The Netflix documentary series explores how the show, envisioned as changing the modeling industry, came to re-enforce its darkest qualities. And it lets Tyra Banks and her co-stars address the criticism that their TV show did not age well.
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February 19, 2026 • 49 mins
The Netflix documentary series Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model reexamines the TV show’s impact on a nation’s perception of beauty and the troubling situations it put contestants through in the name of entertainment. It offers behind the scenes stories from Tyra Banks, her co-stars, and her producers, and their thoughts today about the program’s most controversial moments. And it features emotional interviews with for...
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February 4, 2026 • 40 mins
Today we’re turning things over to our friends at Netflix’s Skip Intro and their conversation with Elizabeth Smart. She reflects on the harrowing experience of being abducted from her bedroom at just 14 years old. In this intimate conversation, Elizabeth opens up about why she wanted to retell her story in more explicit detail in the Netflix film Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, and help other survivors not feel alone.
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January 28, 2026 • 38 mins
The Netflix documentary film Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart goes deep inside the famous crime with the stories of those who were there - including Elizabeth herself. She talks in detail about her abduction, the abuse she suffered, and lengths she went to stay safe in captivity. We also hear from her family about how they kept the search going to have that reunion with their missing loved one.
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January 14, 2026 • 36 mins
The Netflix series Sean Combs: The Reckoning uses powerful interviews and behind-the-scenes footage to tell Sean “Puffy” Combs’ story from restless kid to federal defendant.
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews former business partner Kirk Burrowes about what it was like to build a record label with Combs and his reaction to the hit documentary.
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December 31, 2025 • 37 mins
We return to our discussion of the one true crime story you couldn’t get enough of in 2025: the Netflix documentary series Amy Bradley is Missing.
Host Rebecca Lavoie revisits her conversation with directors Phil Lott and Ari Mark.
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December 24, 2025 • 38 mins
On this episode, we’re revisiting one of the most thought-provoking and conversation-starting films from the past year. We’ll return to our discussion of the Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor.
Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Geeta Gandbhir and producer Nikon Kwantu.
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December 18, 2025 • 28 mins
In our latest look at the Netflix documentary series Sean Combs: The Reckoning, we’ll hear from Combs’s former personal assistant, Capricorn Clark. She talks about her complex working relationship with Combs, the difficulties of coming forward with her story, what it was like to face him in federal court, and her reaction to the jurors who said in the series that she was not a convincing witness.
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December 10, 2025 • 34 mins
The Netflix documentary film The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo follows war correspondent Gary Knight as he attempts to learn who actually captured the famous “Napalm Girl” picture. The hunt for the unidentified photographer will take him across the globe and put him at odds with a journalistic community deeply protective of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Nick Út’s legacy. Knight enlists a visual forensics team to pin...
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December 3, 2025 • 37 mins
The four-part Netflix series Sean Combs: The Reckoning is a staggering examination of the media mogul, music legend, and convicted offender. It features never before-seen-videos of Combs in the days before his arrest. It also offers exclusive interviews with those who allege he used violence to succeed in business and exploit women.
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November 26, 2025 • 37 mins
The Netflix documentary film The Carman Family Deaths looks into the strange events surrounding Nathan Carman and whether he murdered his mother and grandfather for a multimillion dollar inheritance. It explores whether police misinterpreted the typical behavior of an autistic person as incriminating, and whether the tragedy on the high seas was an accident or a crime.
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November 19, 2025 • 35 mins
The Netflix documentary Being Eddie looks at Eddie Murphy’s remarkable life - from superstardom to career lows and back again. For the first time, he tells his own story about his varied artistic choices, avoiding celebrity pitfalls, and living as a dad and a homebody. It features interviews with legendary comedians who discuss Murphy’s legacy and ponder what it must be like being Eddie Murphy.
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November 12, 2025 • 36 mins
The Netflix documentary series Marines follow the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit as they prepare for a high-stakes training exercise that tests their readiness “in the air, on land and sea.” The series follows a group of enlisted men and officers - snipers, gunners, and pilots - as they push themselves physically and emotionally in order “to claim the title of United States Marine.”
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November 5, 2025 • 36 mins
The Netflix documentary film Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers recounts Aileen Wuornos’s violent childhood, lethal killing spree, and problematic trial. It provides additional context to her story and invites viewers to reconsider her complicated legacy. Featuring never-before-seen footage from death row, Wuornos discusses the trauma she endured, the case against her, and the victims of her crimes.
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October 29, 2025 • 41 mins
The Netflix documentary film Who Killed the Montreal Expos? revisits the baseball team’s collapse and relocation to Washington. It lets heartbroken fans, beloved players, and vilified owners point fingers at who or what was responsible for the club’s demise. Was it management blunders, labor disputes, political indifference, or basic economics? Or…do all these things share blame for Montréal losing its beloved baseball team?
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October 22, 2025 • 37 mins
The Netflix documentary film The Perfect Neighbor offers a real-time look at the simmering dispute between a white woman and her Black neighbors. Told largely through police body cam footage, it reveals the petty complaints that started the conflict - and the heart-wrenching grief when it ended. It also explores whether Susan Lorincz tried to weaponize police against those living around her and whether she tried to exploit self-def...
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October 15, 2025 • 36 mins
In the Netflix documentary My Father, the BTK Killer, Kerri Rawson embarks on a personal journey of understanding—confronting childhood trauma and searching for healing. In this bonus from the podcast Monster: BTK from Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, Executive Producer Payne Lindsey sits down with Kerri to talk about her early childhood, learning about her dad's true identity when she was an adult, and dealing with the aftermath ...
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October 8, 2025 • 34 mins
The Netflix documentary Rebel Royals offers an intimate look at the unlikely romance between Märtha Louise, daughter of the King of Norway, and Shaman Durek Verrett, a mystic from California. The spiritual couple navigates issues of class, race, and national identity as they prepare for a royal wedding among the Scandinavian fjords. They address critics in the press and the public who view their union as an oddity, and reveal what ...
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October 1, 2025 • 35 mins
In part two of our look at the Netflix series Love Con Revenge, we talk to the private eye working with The Tinder Swindler’s Cecilie Fjellhøy about the tradecraft of locating other con artists who’ve swindled their partners. She discusses the challenge of uncovering their web of deceit and bringing any measure of justice for victims duped by those who loved their money more than they loved them.
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