The Long Shadow

7.5IMDb Score
Released:2023-09-25
Genre:Crime, Drama
Duration: min
Country:United Kingdom
Director:
Actors:Michael McElhatton, Jack Deam, Lee Ingleby, Kris Hitchen
Production:All3Media International, New Pictures

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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