The Confession Tapes

The Confession Tapes
Genre
Created byKelly Loudenberg
Directed byKelly Loudenberg
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes11
Production
Executive producers
  • Sarah Whalen
  • Steve Robillard
  • Jeff Bumgarner
Running time40-54 mins.
Production companies
  • Netflix (season 1)
  • A24 (season 2)
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseSeptember 8, 2017 (2017-09-08) 
June 21, 2019 (2019-06-21)

The Confession Tapes is a true crime television documentary series that presents several cases of possible false confessions leading to murder convictions of the featured people. In each case, the documentary presents alternate views of how the crime could have taken place and features experts on false confessions, criminal law, miscarriages of justice and psychology. The series, produced and distributed by Netflix, became available to all Netflix subscribers on September 8, 2017. Critics praised the series, likening it to other Netflix true crime documentaries, such as The Keepers and Making a Murderer.