Documentary series
Series by streaming service
Each series is listed under the service that made or first aired it, checked against its public Wikipedia and Wikidata records. Documentary films, scripted shows and reality TV are not included. What you can watch differs by country, and we have not yet checked availability in Ireland, the UK or the US.
162 series
HBO / Max · 2021
100 Foot Wave
American surfing documentary series
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Channel 4 · 2011
24 Hours in A&E
British medical television series
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BBC · 2021
A Perfect Planet
2021 British documentary series
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BBC · 2013
Africa
2013 British nature documentary television series
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Amazon Prime Video · 2022
Alexia: Labor Omnia Vincit
2022 Spanish television documentary
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Amazon Prime Video
All or Nothing: Arsenal
Amazon Original sports docuseries
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Amazon Prime Video
All or Nothing: Brazil National Team
Amazon Original sports docuseries
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Amazon Prime Video
All or Nothing: Juventus
Amazon Original sports docuseries
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Amazon Prime Video
All or Nothing: Manchester City
Amazon Original sports docuseries
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Amazon Prime Video
All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur
Amazon Original sports docuseries
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HBO / Max · 2021
Allen v. Farrow
American documentary television miniseries
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Disney+
America the Beautiful
2022 American TV series or program
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PBS · 1988
American Experience
PBS documentary television series
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BBC · 2005
Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution'
2005 British documentary series
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HBO · 1994
Autopsy
sub-series of HBO America Undercover
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Netflix · 2022
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.
2022 Netflix docuseries
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PBS · 1994
Baseball
1994 American television documentary miniseries
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Netflix · 2023
Beckham
2023 docuseries
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Disney+
Becoming
2020 American TV series or program
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Apple TV+ · 2020
Becoming You
Documentary television series on Apple TV+
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Disney+ · 2021
Behind the Attraction
American streaming documentary series
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BBC · 2017
Blue Planet II
2017 British nature documentary television series
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Apple TV+ · 2023
Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker
two-part sports documentary
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Netflix · 2020
Cheer
2020 American TV docuseries
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Netflix · 2015
Chef's Table
2015 Netflix documentary series
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BBC · 1969
Civilisation
British documentary TV series on Western art and philosophy (BBC 1969)
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Amazon Prime Video · 2021
Clarkson's Farm
farming-based documentary TV show
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Amazon Prime Video
Coach Prime
American documentary TV series
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Netflix · 2019
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
American docuseries on Netflix
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Disney+ · 2014
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
2014 American science documentary television series presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Disney+ · 2020
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
science documentary TV series
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PBS · 2019
Country Music
American documentary television series
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Netflix · 2021
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
2021 documentary television series
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Showtime · 2016
Dark Net
Documentary series
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Apple TV+ · 2020
Dear...
Documentary television series by R. J. Cutler
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Netflix · 2018
Dirty Money
2018 American television series
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Channel 4 · 1987
Dispatches
British current affairs documentary TV programme
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Netflix · 2019
Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
2019 American true crime documentary series
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National Geographic · 2010
Drugs, Inc.
American documentary TV series
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BBC · 2018
Dynasties
2018 British TV series or programme
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Apple TV+ · 2020
Earth at Night in Color
US nature documentary television series
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Channel 4
Educating Yorkshire
Season of television series
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Amazon Prime Video · 2021
Everybody Loves Natti
American television documentary series
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Netflix · 2018
Evil Genius
2018 true crime docuseries
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Netflix · 2018
Explained
American documentary television series
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PBS · 1987
Eyes on the Prize
American civil rights movement documentary TV series
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Netflix · 2020
Fear City: New York vs the Mafia
2020 documentary television miniseries
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Netflix · 2019
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Documentary television series
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Amazon Prime Video · 2019
Free Meek
American docuseries
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PBS · 1983
Frontline
PBS investigative journalism program
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BBC · 2011
Frozen Planet
2011 British nature documentary series
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BBC · 2022
Frozen Planet II
2022 British nature documentary series
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Viceland · 2016
Gaycation
2016 American television documentary series
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HBO · 2022
George Carlin's American Dream
2022 documentary series
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Disney+ · 2010
Great Migrations
nature documentary television miniseries
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Apple TV+ · 2020
Greatness Code
documentary television series
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Netflix · 2022
Harry & Meghan
Documentary series on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
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HBO / Max
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
2020 American documentary miniseries
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Disney+ · 2019
Hero Project
2019–2020 Marvel documentary series
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Apple TV+
Home
American documentary television series
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Netflix · 2021
How to Become a Tyrant
2021 documentary television series
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HBO / Max · 2020
How To with John Wilson
American documentary comedy series
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Amazon Prime Video · 2024
Hunting a Monster
Documentary miniseries by Carles Tamayo
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HBO / Max · 2020
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
American true crime documentary series
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BBC · 2023
India: The Modi Question
2023 British documentary TV series
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Disney+ · 2020
It's a Dog's Life with Bill Farmer
Disney+ docuseries about working dogs
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PBS · 2000
Jazz
2001 documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns
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Apple TV+ · 2023
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
British documentary series
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Apple TV+ · 2025
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
2025 documentary television series
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Netflix · 2016
Last Chance U
Documentary series about American football
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A&E · 2016
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
American documentary series
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BBC · 2009
Life
British nature documentary series
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BBC · 1979
Life on Earth
1979 British nature documentary television series
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Disney+ · 2022
Light & Magic
American television series
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Apple TV+ · 2025
Long Way Home
2025 travel docuseries with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
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Apple TV+ · 2020
Long Way Up
2020 documentary series following Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
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Amazon Prime Video · 2019
Lorena
American TV series
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BBC · 1998
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
1998 British TV series or programme
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Showtime · 2020
Love Fraud
American true crime documentary miniseries
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HBO / Max · 2023
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
2023 American TV documentary series
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Amazon Prime Video
LuLaRich
2021 American documentary miniseries
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Netflix · 2015
Making a Murderer
2015 American true crime documentary series
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Disney+ · 2021
Marvel Studios: Assembled
2021–present Marvel Studios docuseries
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Disney+
Marvel's 616
2020 American anthology documentary series
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Disney+ · 2023
Matildas: The World at Our Feet
Disney+ original documentary series
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HBO / Max · 2020
McMillions
True crime documentary television series
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Apple TV+
Messi's World Cup: The Rise of a Legend
American documentary television series
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Disney+ · 2023
MPower
2023 Disney+ docuseries on influential female Marvel Comics creatives
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Apple TV+ · 2025
Mr. Scorsese
2025 documentary series about Martin Scorsese
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PBS
Muhammad Ali
2021 American TV series or program
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Netflix · 2021
Murder Among the Mormons
2021 true crime TV series
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HBO / Max
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning
2023 American TV series or program
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Disney+ · 2013
Nazi Megastructures
documentary television series about military engineering projects in Nazi Germany
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Netflix · 2021
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
American true crime documentary miniseries
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HBO / Max
Not So Pretty
2022 American TV series or program
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HBO / Max · 2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 documentary series about Barack Obama
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Apple TV+
Omnivore
2024 American TV series or program
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BBC · 2023
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
British documentary series
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Amazon Prime Video · 2025
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders
American documentary series
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Disney+ · 2018
One Strange Rock
documentary television series
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Netflix · 2019
Our Planet
Nature documentary
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Disney+ · 2019
Pick of the Litter
Disney+ docuseries following guide-dog puppies in training
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BBC · 2006
Planet Earth
2006 British nature documentary television series
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BBC · 2016
Planet Earth II
2016 British nature documentary television series
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Apple TV+ · 2022
Prehistoric Planet
British-American nature documentary television series
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PBS · 2011
Prohibition
2011 American TV series or program
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Disney+ · 2020
Prop Culture
Disney+ docuseries about film props
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BBC
Putin, Russia and the West
2012 British TV series or programme
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Netflix · 2023
Quarterback
American documentary series
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Disney+ · 2023
Rennervations
Disney+ docu-reality series with Jeremy Renner
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Disney+
Secrets of the Octopus
TV series or program
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Disney+
Secrets of the Whales
TV series or program
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BBC · 2019
Seven Worlds, One Planet
BBC documentary series
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Amazon Prime Video
Shiny Happy People
2023 American TV series or program
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Netflix · 2018
Sunderland 'Til I Die
2018 British sports documentary series
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Lifetime · 2019
Surviving R. Kelly
American documentary television series (2019–2023)
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HBO · 1995
Taxicab Confessions
HBO documentary series of hidden-camera taxi conversations
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HBO / Max
Telemarketers
American true crime documentary series
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BBC · 1973
The Ascent of Man
BBC documentary television series by Jacob Bronowski (1973)
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Disney+ · 2021
The Beatles: Get Back
2021 documentary series by Peter Jackson
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HBO / Max · 2019
The Case Against Adnan Syed
2019 TV series
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Showtime · 2016
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth
American documentary television series
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BBC · 1995
The Death of Yugoslavia
BBC documentary series
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HBO / Max · 2017
The Defiant Ones
American television documentary miniseries
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Netflix · 2019
The Devil Next Door
2019 documentary
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BBC · 2022
The Green Planet
2022 British nature documentary television series on plants
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Disney+
The Imagineering Story
2019 American documentary television miniseries
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HBO / Max · 2015
The Jinx
2015 documentary TV series
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Netflix · 2017
The Keepers
2017 American documentary series
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HBO / Max · 2021
The Lady and the Dale
2021 American TV series or program
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ESPN · 2020
The Last Dance
2020 sports documentary miniseries
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HBO / Max · 2022
The Last Movie Stars
2022 documentary series directed by Ethan Hawke
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Amazon Prime Video
The Last Narc
American television documentary series
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Apple TV+
The Me You Can't See
2021 documentary series by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
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BBC · 2004
The Power of Nightmares
BBC television documentary series
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Apple TV+ · 2023
The Reluctant Traveler
Travel documentary comedy television series
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Channel 4 · 2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 documentary by Mark Cousins
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Apple TV+
The Super Models
2023 American TV series or program
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Amazon Prime Video
The Test
Documentary series about the Australia men's cricket team
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BBC · 2007
The Trap
2007 documentary series by Adam Curtis
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Showtime · 2012
The Untold History of the United States
2012 American TV series or program
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PBS · 2017
The Vietnam War
2017 documentary television series
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HBO / Max · 2020
The Vow
2020 American true crime documentary series
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HBO / Max · 2021
The Way Down
2021 American documentary television miniseries
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Disney+ · 2019
The World According to Jeff Goldblum
2019 American documentary television series presented by Jeff Goldblum
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HBO / Max
The Yogurt Shop Murders
American documentary series
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Apple TV+
They Call Me Magic
American Documentary TV series
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Netflix · 2020
Tiger King
True crime documentary series
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HBO · 1979
Time Was
US documentary television show
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Apple TV+
Tiny World
American nature docuseries
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HBO · 2013
Vice
HBO news documentary series (2013–2019)
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Apple TV+ · 2020
Visible: Out on Television
2020 American TV series or program
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BBC · 1999
Walking with Dinosaurs
1999 British television documentary series
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Apple TV+ · 2021
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021 American TV series or program
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Showtime · 2022
We Need to Talk About Cosby
2022 American TV series or program
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FX · 2022
Welcome to Wrexham
2022 American sports documentary series
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HBO / Max · 2006
When the Levees Broke
2006 American documentary series
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BBC · 2023
Wild Isles
British television documentary series
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Amazon Prime Video · 2025
Wild Tripper!!
Japanese reality travel documentary series
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Netflix · 2018
Wild Wild Country
2018 documentary series
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BBC · 2010
Wonders of the Solar System
2010 British television series
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Showtime · 2014
Years of Living Dangerously
American documentary television series
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