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Our worst image of ourselves tells us that there is nothing more American than getting senselessly gunned down by a ...
In the summer of 1881, a gunshot at a Washington D.C. train station set off one of the most dramatic chapters in American ...
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The four editors of "Death By Lightning" tell IndieWire about crafting the Netflix miniseries's darkly funny and heartfelt ...
Why history remembers some people while others fade into obscurity is the question underlying "Death by Lightning," Netflix's ...
Creator Mike Makowsky dives into one of America's strangest true stories with Death By Lightning, Netflix’s darkly funny ...
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Netflix's Death by Lightning premiered in November 2025 and quickly became a critically acclaimed series that narrates the ...