Inspired by a book by acclaimed historian Simon Schama, Murder at Harvard uses a combination of film-noir drama and present-day documentary footage to tell the true tale of one of the most notorious American crimes of the 19th century. Grappling with frustrating gaps in the historical record, Schama assumes the role of a time-travelling detective who takes an unusual step for an historian and imagines how certain scenes and encounters might have played out. "Maybe I thought what I was after was not a literal documentary truth," Schama tells us, "but a poetic truth — an imaginative truth — and for that I was going to have to become my own Resurrection man. I was going to have to make these characters live again."

Simon Schama

Acts of Violence
Acts of Violence

Murderer on Ward 4
Murderer on Ward 4

Dark Land: The Hunt for Wales' Worst Serial Killer
Dark Land: The Hunt for Wales' Worst Serial Killer

Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton
Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Fractured: The Death of Max Spiers
Fractured: The Death of Max Spiers

Panoramas of War
Panoramas of War

The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line

His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

Faces of Death III
Faces of Death III

Why Did You Kill Me?
Why Did You Kill Me?