Popular Documentary TV Shows

Penn & Teller Tell a Lie
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie
Penn & Teller bring their unique vision of the world in a new interactive series with a twist. In each episode, Penn & Teller make up to seven outrageous claims. While most of the wildly unbelievable stories are absolutely, positively true - one of them is a BIG FAT LIE.
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie 2011
DeFacto
DeFacto
DeFacto 2015
Strange Evidence
Strange Evidence
Worldwide, 300 million surveillance cameras are watching us, on our streets, at work, and in our homes. At times, they capture images that don't seem to follow the normal laws of physics. A new Science Channel series investigates mysteries caught on tape and uncovers the science behind some of the most bizarre occurrences ever recorded. With a team of experts analyzing footage that seems to defy explanation, including levitating cars on a freeway, a statue that appears to move on its own, and a spontaneous burst of flames.
Strange Evidence 2017
Mighty Planes
Mighty Planes
Mighty Planes explores the art and science of aviation, on planes that soar to faraway places on astounding missions. From preparation, loading and take off, through the journey and to the landing and unloading, viewers will experience the high-stakes and high-stress jobs through the eyes and lives of the characters that make it all happen. Featuring the genius of flight technology with the aid of high-end CGI, shot in HD, and recorded in 5.1 surround sound, MIGHTY PLANES captures all the action as it happens.
Mighty Planes 2012
Bite, Sting, Kill
Bite, Sting, Kill
How some of the planet's deadliest animals use venom as a predatory technique.
Bite, Sting, Kill 2018
Tony Robinson's Marvellous Machines
Tony Robinson's Marvellous Machines
Sir Tony Robinson travels the world to explore the most unusual and innovative machines and vehicles in this series packed with exciting stunts and epic challenges.
Tony Robinson's Marvellous Machines 2023
A Bite of China
A Bite of China
This series explores the history, traditions and culture of Chinese food. Filmed at over 160 locations across China, this series truly is a feast for the senses. The seven-episode documentary series introduces the history and story behind foods of various kinds in more than 160 locations in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The documentary has also been actively encouraged as a means of introducing Chinese food culture to those unfamiliar with local cuisine.
A Bite of China 2012
Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia
Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia
Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia is the second in a line of ‘world tours’ that follow comedian Billy Connolly on his various travels across the globe. Filmed in 1995, Connolly takes the viewer on a scenic and informative tour of Australia, intercut with scenes from his stand-up comedy act at various venues around the country. The tour takes in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Alice Springs and Fraser Island. On the way, Connolly also experiences and demonstrates several Australian customs, traditions, and attractions, including swimming with the dolphins in Perth, eating a pie floater in Adelaide, and several museums and galleries, most of which feature some form of Aboriginal art.
Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia 1996
Spökjakt
Spökjakt
Swedish celebrities Jocke & Jonna's journey exploring well-known haunted places around Sweden and Europe
Spökjakt 2020
En stark resa med Morgan & Ola-Conny
En stark resa med Morgan & Ola-Conny
En stark resa med Morgan & Ola-Conny 2012
Tino Casal
Tino Casal
Tino Casal 2023
Heartland Docs, DVM
Heartland Docs, DVM
In picturesque rural Nebraska, the husband and wife veterinary team of Drs. Ben and Erin Schroeder cares for the region's many animals in need.
Heartland Docs, DVM 2020
A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley
A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.
A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley 2015
Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery
Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery
Sex, lies and a tale too twisted to be real surround the murder of Gregg Smart. Who Killed Him? And why? On May 1, 1990, 22-year-old teacher Pamela Smart finds her husband Gregg dead on the floor of their southern New Hampshire condo, leaving the town of Derry stunned. Scouring the region for clues, police shift their attention to Gregg's grieving widow, Pamela Smart, who has been making curious television appearances publicizing her plight. When investigators discover Pamela has been having a sordid affair with high school student, Billy Flynn, a complicated web of lies and deceit unravel, revealing one of the most scandalous crimes of the century. Now, leading true crime network Investigation Discovery (ID) delves into the case in Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery. From the tawdry affair, to teenage assassins, to the explosive nationally televised trial, this case transfixed the entire nation as Pamela Smart emerged as the original Black Widow.
Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery 2018
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia
Join an incredible journey through the history, chemistry and societal impacts of the world’s most extraordinary drugs.
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia 2016
Under Suspicion: Uncovering the Wesphael Case
Under Suspicion: Uncovering the Wesphael Case
This docuseries follows the high-profile case of Belgian politician Bernard Wesphael, who was accused of murdering his wife in 2013.
Under Suspicion: Uncovering the Wesphael Case 2021
Grand Designs: House of the Year
Grand Designs: House of the Year
Every year the Royal Institute of British Architects looks for the best new home in Britain, and this time Grand Designs is along for the ride
Grand Designs: House of the Year 2015
Futurescape with James Woods
Futurescape with James Woods
Futurescape explores event horizons that will critically alter life as we know it.
Futurescape with James Woods 2013
Never Let Him Go
Never Let Him Go
In December 1988, Scott Johnson, a gay American mathematician, was found dead beneath a cliff in Sydney, Australia. His death was quickly determined to be a suicide. But Steve Johnson, Scott's older brother, had doubts and would spend the next 35 years trying to solve the mystery of Scott's death. He could have never imagined the tinderbox he would crack open—a wave of anti-gay violence, which was systematically ignored for decades.
Never Let Him Go 2023
The Royal House of Windsor
The Royal House of Windsor
Drawing on newly available evidence, this epic series explores the Windsor dynasty's gripping family saga, providing fresh insights into how our royal family have survived four generations of crisis.
The Royal House of Windsor 2017
Before We Ruled the Earth
Before We Ruled the Earth
Before We Ruled the Earth is a two-part documentary television miniseries that premiered on February 9, 2003 on the Discovery Channel. The program featured early human history and the challenges human beings faced thousands of years ago. It also features animals examples such as: ⁕Woolly mammoth ⁕Megantereon ⁕American buffalo ⁕Cave bear ⁕Irish elk The first episode was called "Hunt or Be Hunted" and the second called "Mastering the Beasts."
Before We Ruled the Earth 2003
Age of the Image
Age of the Image
Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world.
Age of the Image 2020
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Romani and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads 2009
Surviving Death
Surviving Death
What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death experiences, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.
Surviving Death 2021
Ask Lesch
Ask Lesch
Ask Lesch 2010
The Renaissance Unchained
The Renaissance Unchained
Four-part series in which Waldemar Januszczak challenges the traditional view of art's most important epoch - the Renaissance.
The Renaissance Unchained 2016
Resistência Negra
Resistência Negra
Resistência Negra 2023
Macarena. El himno de un planeta
Macarena. El himno de un planeta
Macarena. El himno de un planeta 2024
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders is a spin-off series of the paranormal television series, Most Haunted. It ran on Living TV between 19 June 2007 and 7 August 2007.
Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders 2007
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story
Two-part docudrama recreating the famous investigation using reenactments and state-of-the-art CGI.
Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story 2011
FeierAbend
FeierAbend
FeierAbend 1999
Burning Bridges
Burning Bridges
Burning Bridges is a smoldering docuseries that plunges you into the hearts and minds of Telangana's firefighters. This five-episode saga explodes beyond the flames, exploring the raw courage, hidden scars, and emotional toll of a life on the frontline. Witness their desperate dance with infernos in Episode 1, then feel the searing loss of the Ruby Blaze in Episode 2. We go deeper in Episode 3, revealing the invisible scars and family anxieties left behind by the Deccan fire. Episode 4 steps back, focusing on the human faces of tragedy, their stories woven with the firefighters who risked everything to save them. Finally, Episode 5 takes us beyond the fireground, highlighting the unseen challenges of false alarms, traffic chaos, and the need for public understanding. Burning Bridges isn't just a docuseries; it's a searing testament to the human spirit, a call for empathy, and a tribute to the silent guardians who stand between us and the inferno.
Burning Bridges 2024
Believing In Australia
Believing In Australia
How the great shifts in Australians' faiths, ethics and beliefs have transformed a continent and its people.
Believing In Australia 2023
Connections 3
Connections 3
In the conclusion to his groundbreaking series, James Burke continues to make incredible connections to history's most important discoveries and inventions.
Connections 3 1997
Lost Land of the Tiger
Lost Land of the Tiger
Documentary following a team of big cat experts and wildlife filmmakers as they embark upon a dramatic expedition searching for tigers hidden in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
Lost Land of the Tiger 2010
The Great Aerospace
The Great Aerospace
It tells about the intertwining of the career development of China's aerospace over more than 30 years and the fate of the characters. Through the organic integration of realism and art, it vividly presents the launch of China's Shenzhou manned spacecraft, the successful launch of Beidou, the moon landing of Chang'e 4, and the global network of Beidou. Covering and building China's space station and deep space exploration and other major aerospace events, by composing deep, passionate, and moving aerospace stories, inspiring astronauts in the new era on the road to build a space power and a world science and technology power, and continue to write about China's spaceflight A new chapter in career development.
The Great Aerospace 2021
Papa marteau
Papa marteau
Papa marteau 2022
Francisco Desir
Francisco Desir
Francisco Desir 2024
Big Cat Country
Big Cat Country
Journey to Zambia's Luangwa Valley, a landscape abundant with prey. In the spectacular wilderness, two neighboring lion prides lay claim to prime hunting territory. The mighty MKs and the Hollywood lionesses must find mates to ensure their future. When the Nomads, a group of rampaging young males, invade their land in search of new territory, these two prides are in for the fight of their lives.
Big Cat Country 2019
Anthropozän – Das Zeitalter des Menschen
Anthropozän – Das Zeitalter des Menschen
Anthropozän – Das Zeitalter des Menschen 2020