Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

6.7/10 89 min Documentary Crime

Overview

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

Cast

Aileen Wuornos

Self (archive footage)

Nick Broomfield

Self

Tyria Moore

Self (archive footage)

Jeb Bush

Self (archive footage)

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