6. Murder on a Sunday Morning
Average score based on the number of mentions: 4; IMDB Rating: 8.1;
Overall Insider Monkey score: 6.05
Murder on a Sunday Morning ranks 6th in our list of 11 best crime documentaries on Amazon Prime Instant. You have to hand it to the creators of such documentaries; they come up with the most innovative names. Winner of the Academy Award for the Best Documentary in 2002, Murder on a Sunday Morning, focuses on the conviction of a 15-year-old boy for murdering a tourist in the state of Florida, in 2000.
The boy was actually wrongfully convicted, with the primary pieces of evidence being the husband of the victim identifying the boy and his own confession, which was claimed to be illegally coerced from him. The film follows the case of the boy, and how the defense team strives to try and prove his innocent.
