Unabomber: In His Own Words

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Unabomber: In His Own Words
Season 1

 Infos

Original title : Unabomber: In His Own Words
Directed by : Mick Grogan
Release date: 22 February 2020
Duration: 50 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Country : US (2020)

 

Unabomber: In His Own Words .

 Synopsis

Anchored by a rare interview, this docuseries details Ted Kaczynski's path from a young intellectual to one of the most feared people in US history.

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Season 1 (2020)

4  |  : 22/02/2020 From 1978 until his arrest in 1996, Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant mathematician and drop-out professor, held America ransom sending a series of homemade bombs that injured 23, and killed three victims. Playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the FBI, Kaczynski evaded capture and taunted his pursuers in what became the longest and most expensive manhunt in American law-enforcement history. 1
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Episode 1
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The first episode examines the start of the Unabomber's campaign of terror spanning from 1978 to 1985, and dives into Kaczynski’s childhood to discover what might have made a young mathematical genius with few friends evolve into a sociopathic terrorist.
Episode 2
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Picking up in 1985, Part Two tells the story of how the Unabomber began to ramp-up his terror campaign, claiming his first murder and taunting his FBI pursuers. Kaczynski’s secret journals from his time as a grad student in Michigan reveal the extraordinary moment when his thoughts first turned to murder.
Episode 3
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Part Three recounts the period from 1993 to 1996, when the Unabomber was holding America ransom with a series of increasingly powerful bombs before his arrest in 1996. Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law reveal the emotional story of how they came to suspect he was the Unabomber, which ultimately led to his arrest.
Episode 4
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The final episode of the series examines Kaczynski's trial, with the revelation that he was subjected to a secret psychological experiment as a teenaged student at Harvard, a fact some claim could have been responsible for turning him into the terrorist he became.

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