Instadocs
Instadocs is a fast-turnaround documentary series that takes you to the very center of the loudest headlines, immersing you in the facts and feelings of the moment. It tackles a wide range of gripping current events, crises, and cultural moments. Every installment moves at the speed of each real-life story and arrives at the height of the conversation.
Instadocs Season 1 originally premiered on Netflix on May 30, 2026. Current US availability is unconfirmed.
Instadocs Season 1 originally premiered on Netflix on May 30, 2026. Current US availability is unconfirmed.
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Season 1 episodes
- 1
Instadocs: Alex Murdaugh, Unconvicted source at TVmaze
In 2023, former lawyer Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son Paul, and was convicted on two counts of murder and two counts of using a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. He also pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes. While Murdaugh began serving consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison, his team appealed the verdict, claiming that Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill had interfered with the jury. On May 13, 2026, the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the double-murder conviction, granting him a new trial that will take place this year.
- 2
Instadocs: The Prediction Games source at TVmaze
Prediction markets are a legal but controversial way to gamble on the outcome of almost anything, from the World Cup and Taylor Swift's wedding to elections, weather, and armed conflict. Tens of millions of people are diving into these markets — with all sorts of consequences. The Prediction Games drops viewers into the sizzlingcenter of betting fever, tracking the fortunes made and lost, with interviews with those who own the game, including Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, plus regulator Michael Selig, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
- 3
Instadocs: The Decoy Plane source at TVmaze
This July, President Trump disappeared without anyone noticing. Flying back from a NATO summit in Turkey, he boarded Air Force One, then slipped off the plane into a catering truck, and secretly boarded a different aircraft — leaving traveling reporters to fly on, unaware the president was no longer with them.Instadocs: The Decoy Plane unpacks the incident through the eyes of the traveling press corps with firsthand accounts from Gram Slattery, a White House reporter for Reuters; Alex Brandon, a White House photographer for The Associated Press; plus perspectives from Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Carol Leonnig of MS NOW; The Washington Post's Dan Lamothe, who was part of the reporting team that broke the…
- 4
Instadocs: AI Gone Wild source at TVmaze
When the open-source AI platform Hugging Face was hit by a cyberattack this July, it quickly became clear this was no ordinary breach. Over two days, hundreds of intruders took some 17,000 actions on its systems — some of which, if committed by people, may have amounted to felonies. But the hackers weren't human. They were autonomous agents created by OpenAI researchers. Initially walled off from the Internet and from each other, these agents escaped, conspired to cheat on the tasks they were given, and went to extraordinary lengths to cover their tracks.Instadocs: AI Gone Wild reconstructs the breach as it's never been seen before, visualizing the digital attack to show how the agents hacked into Hugging Fa…
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