Like many Americans in the early aughts, documentary filmmaker David Osit watched “To Catch a Predator,” a hidden camera reality TV show that followed journalist Chris Hansen working in coordination ...

The setup was always the same: An adult male would visit the home of a minor they had been communicating with online, and while they were expecting some sort of sexual encounter, they would instead be ...

“Predators,” MTV Documentary Films’ “To Catch a Predator” documentary has officially made its way to select theaters after its Sundance Film Festival debut. The film, which is directed, produced, ...

Remember when that alternative weekly reporter prank-called Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and claimed to be Republican rainmaker David Koch? Yesterday, a complaint filed with the state's Government ...

“Predators,” the new documentary about the TV news program “To Catch a Predator,” comes across as painfully, almost uncomfortably conflicted in the view of its subject. Yet those NBC specials that ...

A new documentary delving into the cultural phenomenon of NBC’s To Catch a Predator, which debuted in the early 2000s and featured host Chris Hansen, will follow the “rise and staggering fall of the ...

Documentary filmmaker David Osit was going down an internet rabbit hole in the late 2010s when he stumbled upon a primitive, yet quickly addictive, message board. Sporting the archaic look of a Web ...

“My life may be crappy, but at least I’m not on TV.” That’s one explanation for the mass appeal of “To Catch a Predator” put forth by a subject in “Predators,” a new documentary about the mid-aughts ...

Several groups have formed in recent years to carry out citizen-led sting operations targeting suspected online child predators. Sergey Zolkin via Unsplash When Jason Velasquez set out to catch online ...

Directed, produced, edited, and filmed by David Osit, Predators (not Predators) is a documentary that asks questions of To Catch a Predator, the early-2000s investigative series, part of Dateline NBC, ...