Netflix’s Next Big Documentary Spotlights Traumatized Victims of the Deadly Joplin Tornado

For fans of the Twister-verse or even Stranger Things, this next Netflix documentary might be for you.

The Twister: Caught in the Storm, dropping Mar. 19, is the newest venture from production company Raw TV, behind some of the streaming giant’s most popular factual programs such as The Tinder Swindler (2022) or Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me (2023).

Director-writer Alexandra Lacey now turns her attention to Joplin, Missouri. In 2011, a devastating EF5 tornado struck the Bible Belt town, killing over 150 people and injuring a thousand. It flattened homes, churches, a hospital, and a high school, reducing people’s entire lives to rubble and becoming the costliest single tornado in U.S. history.

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In The Twister, Lacey and her team speak to those caught, literally, in the eye of the storm. She collects a colorful cast to recall the

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