Netflix to Add 16 New Releases This Week – Here’s the One You Can’t Miss

By Phillip Swann
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Netflix this week (March 3-9, 2025) plans to add 16 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here’s the one you definitely don’t want to miss, in my humble opinion:

Chaos: The Manson Murders
Okay, let’s get crazy. Errol Morris, the maker of such thought-provoking documentaries as The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War, and the Unknown Known, is back with a fascinating POV on Charles Manson and the murders committed by his ‘family’ in 1969. Sure, you say, another Manson documentary?! Who needs that?! Oh, but there’s never been one like this. Morris takes a deep dive in the growing belief that Manson was trained by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of the agency’s secret mind-control division, known as MK-Ultra. The theory is that the CIA fed Manson with mind-control drugs and techniques which the cult leader then used to manipulate his followers. The CIA was interested in Manson, so goes the story, because top officials believed they could learn from him how to make people do things they otherwise would not.

Tom O’Neill, a veteran entertainment reporter, who is interviewed in the documentary, spent a few decades researching the connection between Manson and the CIA and he concluded that it all was true. His book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, is the basis for the Morris doc.

Morris himself is no stranger to investigating the CIA’s strange doings decades ago. (Maybe decades ago?)  His Netflix fictional film, Wormwood, chronicles the mysterious death of a CIA scientist who was involved in MK-Ultra in the 195os. How did he die? He jumped (or fell) out of a 13th floor window of a hotel in New York.

Didn’t I tell you it was going to get crazy in here?

Chaos: The Manson Murders debuts on Netflix on Friday, March 7.

Full List of New Netflix Titles This Week

Monday, March 3
Hot Wheels Let’s Race, season three

Tuesday, March 4
Andrew Schulz: LIFE
The Graham Norton Show
With Love, Meghan

Wednesday, March 5
Just One Look
The Leopard
Medusa

Thursday, March 6
Barbie & Teresa: Recipe For Friendship
Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta
Power Rangers

Friday, March 7
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Delicious
Formula 1: The Drive to Survive
Nadaaniyan
Plankton: The Movie
When Life Gives You Tangerines

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