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The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

★ 6.6 13K votes 2019–2019 1 season · 8 episodes Ended Netflix
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 7/10
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Maria João Vaz
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Maria João Vaz
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About

"An exhaustive, uneasy autopsy of a media obsession"

This documentary series revisits the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese holiday resort, tracing the frantic search, the media frenzy that followed her parents, and the tangle of suspects and theories that emerged over the years. It plays less like a tight true-crime thriller and more like a slow, exhaustive archive dive, heavy on interviews with journalists, police, and locals. The tone is somber and procedural rather than sensational, and it rewards patience more than it grips you scene to scene.

Watch it for

the detailed look at how global media coverage shaped and distorted a real investigation.

Maybe skip if

you want a tightly paced mystery rather than a sprawling, unresolved case study.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12019
7.03K8
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1The Beneath Truth6.8
510—
▶2Person of Interest6.9
425—
▶3Pact of Silence7.3
403—
▶4Heaven and Earth7.3
384—
▶5The Fightback6.8
362—
▶6Dark Places7.0
356—
▶7Truth and Lies6.8
336—
▶8Somebody Knows7.0
339—

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Anthony Summers Self - Investigative Journalist, Self - Investigative Journalist, Co-Author, Looking for Madeleine
Maria João Vaz Detective
Gonçalo Amaral Self - Former Chief Investigating Coordinator, Self - Former Chief Investigating Coordinator - Polícia Judiciária, Portimão
Robbyn Swan Self - Investigative Journalist, Self - Investigative Journalist, Co-Author, Looking for Madeleine
Jim Gamble Self - Former Senior Police Officer, Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre
Sandra Felgueiras Self - Journalist, RTP Network
Ernie Allen Self - Former President & CEO, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Robert Murat Self - Local Resident, Self - Local Resident, Praia da Luz
Susan Hubbard Self - Friend of the McCanns
Haynes Hubbard Self - Friend of the McCanns

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