Topic is the boundary-pushing streaming service from First Look Entertainment for thrillers, mysteries, dramas and documentaries from around the world, serving viewers who crave entertainment beyond the mainstream. Whether it’s a Nordic-noir crime thriller (The Killing), an Italian supernatural political drama (The Miracle), or a mind-blowing paranormal mystery from Russia (Dead Mountain), Topic expands your view of the world.
This true crime docuseries investigates the harrowing discovery of children’s remains found on the grounds of a home for unwed mothers and their babies in Western Ireland, exposing hypocrisy and corruption within the Catholic Church.
Between 1921 and 1998, 60,000 unwed Irish mothers were forced by the Catholic Church to give up their children without knowing what would happen to them. Records show 9,000 of them died without cause. A local historian investigates.
Many children born under the care of Bons Secours nuns were adopted abroad, a majority of them in America. Tuam survivors tell their personal adoption stories and their search for the truth.
Did the state collude in the abuse and death of mothers and children along with the church? Why has the church been protected? Survivors and the people of Ireland demand records be unsealed as calls for justice for the victims grow louder.
