You Can’t Make This Up

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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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331 episodes
Updated April 22

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Mar 24, 2023 · 31 min
Waco: American Apocalypse, Part 2
The Man Who Could Have Stopped It All
Mar 22, 2023 · 36 min
Waco: American Apocalypse
Who Was David Koresh?
Mar 15, 2023 · 45 min
Outlast
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we're bringing you something special: the latest episode of We Have The Receipts, the Netflix podcast about all things reality, hosted by Chris Burns and Love is Blind's Lauren Speed Hamilton. And we're talking about the Netflix reality series “Outlast" out now on Netflix.
Mar 8, 2023 · 34 min
MH370: The Plane that Disappeared
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “MH370: The Plane that Disappeared" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Louise Malkinson.
Mar 1, 2023 · 37 min
Full Swing
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Full Swing" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews executive producer Paul Martin.
Feb 22, 2023 · 33 min
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal," out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews directors Julia Willoughby Nason & Jenner Furst.
Feb 15, 2023 · 37 min
Bill Russell: Legend
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Bill Russell: Legend" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Sam Pollard.
Feb 8, 2023 · 38 min
Gunther's Millions
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Gunther's Millions," out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Aurelien Leturgie and executive producer Emilie Duma
Feb 1, 2023 · 38 min
Pamela, a love story
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary film “Pamela, a love story" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews Director Ryan White and Producer Jessica Hargrave.
Jan 25, 2023 · 30 min
Break Point
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Break Point" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews showrunner Kari Lia.
Jan 18, 2023 · 35 min
The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary film “The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Colette Camden.
Jan 11, 2023 · 35 min
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews Joe Berlinger, director of the Netflix documentary series “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street".
Jan 4, 2023 · 6 min
Up Next - Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
This series reveals the truth behind Bernie Madoff’s infamous $64 billion global Ponzi scheme.
Dec 28, 2022 · 40 min
Best of '22: The Making of a Swindler
To finish out the year, we're replaying one of our most popular episodes of 2022!
Dec 21, 2022 · 38 min
Best of '22: Descendant
At the top of Rebecca's Best Of list, we're replaying her interview with “Descendant" director and producer, Margaret Brown. The Clotilda was the last known ship to arrive in the United States carrying enslaved Africans, decades after slave importation was outlawed. The ship was burned and sank somewhere in the Mobile River, while its passengers would later settle in the community of Africatown. In the century that followed, the descendants of The Clotilda struggled to preserve their heritage in an Alabama town encircled by industrial property owned by the descendants of the slave owners. As a renewed effort to find the missing wreck gets underway, the community grapples with the implications of its discovery.
Dec 14, 2022 · 32 min
Best of '22: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
One of Rebecca's favorites of 2022, we're replaying her interview with "Trainwreck: Woodstock '99" director Jamie Crawford and producer Cassie Thornton.Organizers from the original Woodstock tried to recreate the music and magic at a new three-day festival in 1999. But concert-goers expecting another groovy weekend were met with high food prices, dirty water, and mountains of litter. And promoters learned too late their audience wasn’t filled with 60s flower children; they’d drawn an army of row
Dec 7, 2022 · 27 min
Best of 2022 with Tudum's Amanda Richards
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie talks with Amanda Richards, the docs and docuseries writer for Tudum, Netflix's editorial companion site, about their favorite Netflix titles from 2022. This year there were intriguing cold cases, historical crimes, and cunning con men. There were meltdowns at power plants and meltdowns at rock concerts. There was also plenty of drama on reality shows. We cheered for cooking, baking, catfights, and matchmaking. There were game show
Nov 30, 2022 · 34 min
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Jessica Dimmock. Between 1986 and 1991, the remains of four missing women were discovered in the same field in League City, Texas. Authorities couldn’t rule out the deaths were connected to a string of 30 murders outside of Houston since the 1970s. Then another string of disappearances began in the 1990
Nov 23, 2022 · 32 min
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary series “Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews documentary subjects John Leonard and Todd Hoffman. In a 1996 ad campaign, Pepsi claimed if you earned enough points people could get free sunglasses, leather jackets…or a Harrier jump jet. When a 20-year-old college student found a loophole that would let him obtain a $32 million plane for just $700,000, he and his friend beg
Nov 16, 2022 · 37 min
Capturing the Killer Nurse
In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary “Capturing the Killer Nurse" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews director Tim Travers Hawkins and author Charles Graeber. Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He was also one of history’s most prolific serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical fac

You Can’t Make This Up

Waco: American Apocalypse, Part 2

Waco: American Apocalypse

Outlast

MH370: The Plane that Disappeared

Full Swing

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

Bill Russell: Legend

Gunther's Millions

Pamela, a love story

Break Point

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Up Next - Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Best of '22: The Making of a Swindler

Best of '22: Descendant

Best of '22: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

Best of 2022 with Tudum's Amanda Richards

Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields

Pepsi, Where's My Jet?

Capturing the Killer Nurse