The Long Shadow

The biggest manhunt in British history.

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Release Date

9/25/2023

Runtime

7 eps, 338 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

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Ended

Original Language

English

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A grinding procedural that unfolds across five years of institutional failure and violence, asking hard questions about police incompetence and misogyny. This is meticulous, harrowing work about the hunt for a killer and the systems that let him hunt for so long.