The Menendez Brothers is a 2024 American true crime documentary film directed by Alejandro Hartmann for the streaming company Netflix,[1] in which brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of the 1989 murders of their parents, are interviewed about the case.

The documentary film tells the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents on August 20, 1989.

In addition to the brothers, others involved in the case speak in the film, including family, lawyers, jurors, reporting journalists, and the lead prosecutor Pamela Bozanich.

[3][4] The documentary film was announced by streaming company Netflix at the end of September 2024, a few days after premiering the dramatization Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, a limited series in the Neflix Monster themed set of limited series of crime dramas, which is also based on the Menendez case and was also produced by Netflix.

[9] The documentary was directed by Alejandro Hartmann and produced by Ross M. Dinerstein and Rebecca Evans on behalf of the production company Campfire Studios.