Director: David Osit
Cast: David Osit, Chris Hansen, Dani Jayden, Dan Schrack, Casey Mauro
Predators is a 2025 American documentary film directed by David Osit, revisiting the cultural phenomenon of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator — the hidden-camera sting series that put online child predators in front of a national audience and made Chris Hansen a household name.
What is Predators about?
In the early 2000s, Dateline NBC partnered with volunteer watchdog group Perverted Justice to set an extraordinary trap: adults who arranged online meetings with what they believed were underage children arrived instead at a house full of cameras and one very calm television presenter. David Osit's documentary digs beneath the spectacle, charting how the show created a new genre of reality television built on public shaming, exploring what its staggering ratings reveal about American anxieties around the internet and child safety, and asking uncomfortable questions about justice, media ethics, and the lives upended on both sides of those encounters.
Cast & crew
Director David Osit — known for his observational nonfiction work — serves here both as filmmaker and on-screen presence, guiding the investigation with a measured, probing tone. Chris Hansen, the Dateline host whose catchphrase became a cultural meme, appears as a central subject alongside participants Dani Jayden, Dan Schrack, Casey Mauro, Skeeter Jean, and T Coy, whose perspectives together round out the film's layered portrait of the series and its aftermath.
Context & significance
Iranian diaspora viewers who came of age in North America during the 2000s will recognize To Catch a Predator as a defining artifact of that era's television culture — a show that sparked genuinely important conversations about internet safety while also raising hard questions about how far entertainment can travel into policing and public humiliation. Predators lands at a moment when the ethics of public-shaming media are under sharper scrutiny than ever, making Osit's investigation feel timely. The film is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every exchange without missing a beat.
Where & how to watch
Predators is available now on K-Time in Persian dub. Watch on any web browser, TV screen, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start a subscription and cancel anytime.