Hulu has released the trailer for My Grandfather Charles Manson and set the documentary to premiere July 22 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally. The film tracks Sophia as a search for an unknown grandfather leads to a family revelation she never expected.
That discovery lands in a story built around Charles Manson, history's most notorious criminal, and the trailer leans on the shock of finding that he is Sophia's grandfather. It also positions the film as more than a family mystery: her genetics unlock never-before-released records and exclusive audio recordings that, the documentary says, illuminate Manson's pathology in startling ways.
Sophia was always the good girl growing up and her father's rock, which makes the revelation harder to read as a clean break from the past. The documentary says Charles Manson bears striking physical similarities to her beloved father, and that detail helps explain why the story moves between personal recognition and suspicion, with Manson family members and unreliable narrators filling in the gaps as she traces his life.
The more Sophia uncovers, the more her relationship with her father is strained, and that friction gives the project its edge. Hulu is folding the documentary into its broader slate of nonfiction programming, but the central question remains the one the trailer leaves hanging in plain sight: what, exactly, did Sophia's search reveal that had been buried for so long?
