Who was the Unabomber? The true story behind Netflix's new Ted Kaczynski movie.

Key Points:

• Netflix's new drama Unabomber, airing Friday, portrays the life of Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who conducted a 17-year bombing campaign killing three and injuring 23 people, leading to a major FBI manhunt.
• The film stars Jacob Tremblay as young Kaczynski, Russell Crowe as Harvard psychologist Henry Murray (who conducted controversial experiments on Kaczynski), and Shailene Woodley as a fictional FBI agent leading the investigation.
• Kaczynski, who lived in a remote Montana cabin, targeted academics and technology-related individuals with carefully constructed bombs from 1978 to 1995; his brother helped identify him after recognizing his writing style in a manifesto he demanded be published.
• After his arrest in 1996, Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 and received multiple life sentences; he died by suicide in 2023 at age 81 while suffering from late-stage rectal cancer.
• While the movie is inspired by true events, Netflix emphasizes it is a drama rather than a documentary, and no direct causal link has been established between Kaczynski's participation in psychological experiments at Harvard and his later crimes.