Explore the staggering journey of Michael Jackson in this definitive three-part docuseries, Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy. The narrative examines the “dark realities” and the “spiritual cost of power” that accompanied the transformation of a soft-spoken child prodigy into the world’s most dominant—and controversial—cultural icon. From the modest bunk beds of Gary, Indiana, to the global frenzy of the Thriller era, the series charts his “unwavering connection” to the stage and the “head-spinning” shift into a lonelier, reclusive life following the 1984 Pepsi commercial accident. It is a visceral study of how the world’s most famous man became its most “complex enigma.”

Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy (S01)

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3