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Unabomber: In His Own Words

★ 7.2 5K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 4 episodes Ended Netflix
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Michael AllcockNick Uffen
Starring
Michael AllcockNick Uffen
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About

"A killer's own voice explaining himself"

This docuseries traces the life of Ted Kaczynski, the mathematician who waged a mail-bombing campaign against modernity for nearly two decades, using his own journals, letters, and manifesto as narration alongside interviews with investigators, family, and victims. It's a slow, unsettling character study rather than a procedural thriller, more interested in how a brilliant mind curdled into violence than in chase-and-capture beats. The pace is deliberate, the tone somber, and the effect is less about shock than quiet dread as his own words reveal the logic behind the terror.

Watch it for

the unnerving effect of hearing Kaczynski's own writings narrate his descent into violence.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced true crime rather than a slow psychological portrait.

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

All Seasons

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Season 12020
7.29864
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Part One7.0
273—
▶2Part Two7.1
246—
▶3Part Three7.3
233—
▶4Part Four7.3
234—

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Joel Moss Self - FBI Supervisory Special Agent, UNABOMBER Task Force
Kevin Fagan Self - Reporter, San Fransisco Chronicle
David Kaczynski Self - Brother
Peter Vronsky Self - Author, 'Serial Killers'
Jamie Gehring Self - Neighbor
Wendy Gehring Self - Neighbor
Theresa Kintz Self - Former Editor: Earth First! Journal
Michael Allcock Narrator
Nick Uffen Young Ted Kaczynski
Linda Patrik Self - Sister-in-Law

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