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1. Animals with Cameras (2018–2021)
180 min | Documentary
Gordon Buchanan leads a team of camera specialists as they work with scientists to fit specialist cameras to wild animals that will allow extraordinary new discoveries to be made about the lives of these animals.
Stars: Gordon Buchanan, Marlice Van Vuuren, Rory Wilson, Flavio Quintana
Votes: 170
2. Magical Land of Oz (2019)
58 min | Documentary
MAGICAL LAND OF OZ offers a blue chip, continent wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild... See full summary »
Star: Barry Humphries
Votes: 173
3. British Airways 24/7: Access All Areas (2019)
60 min | Documentary
Documentary series going behind-the-scenes at the airline, charting the fortunes of the business and meeting the staff who work hard to keep the planes flying and the passengers happy.
Stars: James Nesbitt, Queen Elizabeth II
4. Comedians Giving Lectures (2019–2022)
30 min | Comedy
Sara Pascoe challenges fellow comedians to deliver an inspiring lecture on a random topic of her choosing. They are given the title of a real lecture but not the content, their oratory skills are judged by experts in the topic.
Stars: Sara Pascoe, Nick Mohammed, Lolly Adefope, Phil Wang
Votes: 64
5. Deep Ocean (2015– )
Documentary
An exploration down the little known depths of the seas. The spherical transparent submarine, successfully captured the world's first moving images of a giant squid in its natural habitat, is used to encounter the living fossil species
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 22
6. Drunk History: Australia (2020)
Comedy
Stars: Cameron Knight, Adam Dunn, David Collins, Greta Lee Jackson
Votes: 24
7. Earth's Tropical Islands (2020)
59 min | Documentary
Cameras follow the amazing wildlife and human castaways found on three of the world's most exotic tropical islands. Narrated by David Harewood.
Stars: David Harewood, Adolphe, Fidel Mill, Hadja Mill
Votes: 211
8. Sacred Wonders (2019)
59 min | Documentary
Documentary series discovering what people do for faith in some of the most spectacular sacred places on the planet - from the gardeners of Angkor Wat to the masons of Djenne.
Stars: Elena Saurel, Sue Perkins
Votes: 50
9. Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe (2019)
82 min | Documentary
Exploring two of the greatest thinkers of humanity, and their contributions to our understanding of the universe.
Director: Michael Lachmann | Stars: Sean Carroll, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein
Votes: 155
10. Helter Skelter: An American Myth (2020)
TV-MA | 348 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Over 50 years later, Helter Skelter features new interviews and archival material to provide the most comprehensive retelling yet of the Manson Family's crimes, seeking to upend assumptions about this layered, complex story.
Stars: Ivor Davis, Jeff Guinn, Dianne Lake, Catherine Share
Votes: 770
11. Hitler Youth (2017 TV Movie)
91 min | Documentary, History
Doctrinal press-gang and seduction tool, political instrument of the Nazi Party, paramilitary vector in the preparations for war, the Hitler Youth becomes an instrument to deliberately sacrifice an entire youth.
Director: David Korn-Brzoza | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Vincent Lindon
Votes: 198
12. Hostile Planet (2019)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary
A look at the world's harshest landscapes and the animals that have adapted to live there.
Stars: Bear Grylls, Cong Liu
Votes: 938
13. Inside the Medieval Mind (2008– )
60 min | Documentary, History
In Inside the Medieval Mind, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrews University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Bartlett, Hugh Gilbert
Votes: 142
14. Inside the SS (2017–2018)
43 min | Documentary
A three part documentary with footage of Hitler's SS troops. Describes their indoctrination often when still children, their war crimes, leaders, and how they controlled a country that started a world war.
Stars: Stefan Ashton Frank, Oskar Gröning, Hans Friedrich, Kurt Barkhausen
Votes: 200
15. Italy's Invisible Cities (2017)
Documentary
Using the latest 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott uncover the hidden history of Italian civilisation and city life.
Stars: Alexander Armstrong, Michael Scott, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Tony Perrottet
Votes: 139
16. Japan with Sue Perkins (2019)
58 min | Documentary
Inspired by a childhood friendship Sue Perkins travels around Japan experiencing a nation caught between the demands of a high-tech future and the pull of a traditional past.
Star: Sue Perkins
Votes: 167
17. Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure (2018)
45 min | Documentary
This epic new four-part series is Joanna Lumley's grandest and most challenging journey yet, a breath-taking odyssey from Venice to the Chinese border along the veins of the ancient Silk ... See full summary »
Star: Joanna Lumley
Votes: 350
18. McMillions (2020)
TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A detailed account of the McDonald's Monopoly game scam during the 1990s as told by the participants in the case, including the prizewinners and the FBI agents involved.
Stars: Chris Graham, Doug Mathews, Amy Murray, Janet Pellicciotti
Votes: 9,203
19. Michael Wood's Story of England (2010– )
60 min | Documentary
In each episode, English historian Michael Woods's team sheds an original light on a major period in British history. However, instead of a merely descriptive approach, they attempt to ... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Wood, Carenza Lewis, Chris Dryer, Bob Holman
Votes: 117
20. My Grandparents' War (2019– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and death decisions grandparents of famous British people faced during the Second World War.
Stars: Caroline Catz, Helena Bonham Carter, Carey Mulligan, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 220
21. Nazi Victory: The Post War Plan (2018)
Documentary
It's probably the greatest historical "what if?" of all time. A question that fascinates and horrifies in equal measures: what if Nazi Germany had won the Second World War? In this ... See full summary »
Stars: Guy Walters, Terry Charman, Nigel Jones, Andrew Gough
Votes: 59
22. Secrets of the Museum (2020– )
59 min | Documentary
With access to some of the world's best restorers and the beguiling collection of the V&A, this series takes the audience behind the scenes of the museum .
Stars: Dorothy Atkinson, Chris Duffy, Sandy Powell, Nick Broomfield
Votes: 86
23. Slow Burn (2020)
TV-14 | 351 min | Documentary
In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn's Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history.
Stars: Leon Neyfakh, Connie Chung
Votes: 201
24. Snow Cats and Me (2020)
Documentary
Gordon Buchanan joins pioneering biologist Dr Victor Lukarevskiy in snowy Russia to attempt to rehabilitate two pairs of lynx held captive for years.
Stars: Gordon Buchanan, Victor Lukarevsky
Votes: 17
25. Spy in the Wild (2017–2020)
TV-PG | Documentary
Animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to observe their behavior.
Stars: David Tennant, Birute Galdikas, Rob Pilley, Jill Pruetz
Votes: 554
26. The Story of Europe (2017)
Documentary
What is Europe? How did this continent, which actually is not a continent geographically, develop? What keeps Europe with its many nations and peoples together? Is there the "typical ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Christopher Clark, Ivan Barnev, Teo Chepilov, Vasil Toshev
Votes: 157
27. The Birth of Empire: The East India Company (2014)
60 min | Documentary, History
Dan Snow travels through India in the footsteps of the company that revolutionized the British lifestyle and laid the foundations of today's global trading systems. 400 years ago British ... See full summary »
Stars: Dan Snow, Robert Hutchinson, Zareer Masani, Nick Robins
Votes: 111
28. The Inflight Food Trip (2019– )
Documentary
We follow airline food guru Nik Loukas around the globe as we discover what is going into keeping everyone fed at 35,000ft every day. Our journey takes us behind the scenes with the ... See full summary »
Stars: Paul Delaross, Nikos Loukas
Votes: 26
29. Tony Robinson's Wild West (2015)
132 min | Documentary
From Custer's Last Stand and the Battle of Little Big Horn to the gunfight at the OK Corral and death of Jesse James, this is a history of the West like no other. TONY ROBINSON'S WILD WEST ... See full summary »
Stars: Tony Robinson, Paul Andrew Hutton, Thom Hatch, Joseph M. Marshall III
Votes: 49
30. The Wine Guys: Grape Escapes (2017– )
Documentary
Join in the quest of wine importers and friends Michael, Chuck and Charlie, to discover the very best at romantic vineyards from around the world.
Stars: Charlie Arturaola, Michael Podbere, Chuck Katan
Votes: 10
31. 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel (2018)
54 min | Documentary
3 Seconds Behind the Wheel follows the lives of eight drivers over 6 months using in-car cameras and tracking technology to monitor the often-hidden behavior of distracted drivers.
Director: Jennifer Boyd
Votes: 17
32. 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz? (2019 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Drama, History
After two men escape from the death camp at Auschwitz to tell the world the details of the Nazi genocide there, the Allies face a moral dilemma: to stop further killings, should we bomb Auschwitz?
Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Nikolaus Wachsmann, Deborah Lipstadt, Michael Berenbaum, Rebecca Erbelding
Votes: 85
33. A Stargazers Guide to the Cosmos (2018 TV Movie)
Documentary
Over the course of 10 inspiring episodes, A Stargazer's Guide to the Cosmos takes us on a remarkable journey of discovery through the wonders of the southern night sky. Our guide on this ... See full synopsis »
Director: Jordan Edmeades | Star: Greg Quicke
34. Apollo: The Forgotten Films (2019 TV Movie)
84 min | Documentary, History
It will tell the complete story of this most audacious of missions, with footage not seen anywhere else. The archives reveal the incredible lengths an army of engineers, scientists and astronauts.
Director: Duncan Copp | Stars: John F. Kennedy, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Walter Cronkite
Votes: 186
35. Apollo 11 (I) (2019)
G | 93 min | Documentary, History
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Deke Slayton
Votes: 27,215 | Gross: $9.04M
36. Belsen: Our Story (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp eloquently and movingly tell of their experiences of deportation, family destruction, and their own survival, together with the history of ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Stubberfield | Stars: Kate Fleetwood, Maurice Blik, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Mala Tribich
Votes: 94
37. Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family (2017)
56 min | Documentary
"Data Mining the Deceased" prods the industry behind the exponential intensity in genealogy. What are the motivations of the key players and how are their ambitions affecting the millions of North Americans who are searching for answers?
Director: Julia Creet | Stars: Julia Creet, Alondra Nelson, Stephen Pinker
Votes: 19
38. David Attenborough's Wild City (2016– )
47 min | Documentary
A natural history event like no other, Wild City will reveal the hidden wild inside the Lion City. Deploying the latest filmmaking techniques and narrated by natural history legend Sir ... See full summary »
Stars: David Attenborough, Nick Baker, Patrick Aryee
Votes: 20
39. Egyptian Tomb Hunting (2018)
120 min | Documentary, History
Actor, comedian and history buff Tony Robinson travels across Egypt, where a series of incredible new tomb discoveries are being made. He travels the length of the Nile meeting the archaeologists unearthing extraordinary wonders.
Stars: Tony Robinson, Maria Nilsson
Votes: 48
40. Egypt's Lost Pyramid (2019 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary, History
Archaeologists investigate the remains of a 4000-year-old pyramid which contains a sealed burial chamber that has somehow been robbed - without any signs of entry.
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Zawe Ashton, Chris Naunton, Adel Okasha, Eissa Zidan
Votes: 46
41. For Sama (2019)
TV-PG | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, War
FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
Directors: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Stars: Waad Al-Kateab, Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Afra
Votes: 12,820 | Gross: $0.04M
42. Hidden Gems of Turkey (2020– )
45 min | Documentary
This exciting documentary series will reveal Turkey's gems, a country with plentiful ancient architecture, rich in history, culture, food and natural wonder but also unique experiences.
Star: Andrew Evans
43. Hidden History: The Lost Portraits of Bradford (2019 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, History
Director: Richard Taylor | Stars: Zatoon Akhtar, Paul Bayes, Ian Beesley, Geoffrey Belknap
45. Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018)
98 min | Documentary
While the yearly crab migration takes place and locals perform rituals for ghosts, a therapist works in Christmas Island's asylum seeker detention center.
Director: Gabrielle Brady | Stars: Arthur Floret, Poh Lin Lee
Votes: 473
46. Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands (2015)
TV-PG | 59 min | Documentary
Stunning 3-part BBC documentary about the natural world and wildlife of Japan's islands: Honshu, Hokkaido and the Southernmost Islands.
Stars: Michelle Dockery, Peter Drost, Graham MacFarlane, Robin Cox
Votes: 633
47. Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections (2020)
TV-14 | 91 min | Documentary
Finnish hacker and election expert Harri Hursti investigates election-related hacks, uncovering just how unprotected voting systems really are.
Directors: Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels, Sarah Teale | Stars: J. Alex Halderman, Sue Halpern, Nathaniel Herz, Harri Hursti
Votes: 747
48. Kusama: Infinity (2018)
Unrated | 76 min | Documentary
Artist Yayoi Kusama and experts discuss her life and work, from her modest beginnings in Japan to becoming an internationally renowned artist.
Director: Heather Lenz | Star: Yayoi Kusama
Votes: 1,213 | Gross: $0.36M
49. One Child Nation (2019)
R | 83 min | Documentary, History
After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang | Stars: Nanfu Wang, Zaodi Wang, Zhimei Wang, Tunde Wang
Votes: 7,203 | Gross: $0.18M
50. Pompeii: Disaster Street (2020)
90 min | Documentary
With exclusive access granted over 10 months of excavation, the film reveals for the first time the unexplored parts of the city of Pompeii and captures the major findings which have emerged in the last 70 years of research and a 2018 dig.
Director: Pierre Stine | Stars: Valeria Amoretti, Francesca Coletti, Chiara Comegna, Patrizio di Felice
Votes: 31
51. Rich Hall's Red Menace (2019)
Documentary
Comedian Rich Hall presents an alternative history of the Cold War, from nuclear near misses and fallout shelters to the CIA wiring a cat to spy on the Russian ambassador.
Director: Chris Cottam | Stars: Rich Hall, Eleanor Clift, William Darden, Thomas Doherty
Votes: 18
52. Samurai Castle (2017)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary
Samurai Castles The Kumamoto Castle from the 17th century was heavily damaged by a series of powerful earthquakes, but the oldest sections of stonewalls miraculously survived and avoided ... See full summary »
Star: Satoshi Suzuki
Votes: 44
53. Sinking Cities (2018)
Documentary
See how Tokyo is looking for new ways to fight back against rising waters. Typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes and sinking neighborhoods threaten one of the world's most populous cities, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Lisa Theodore, Lucy Ernest
Votes: 40
54. SOMM 3 (2018)
78 min | Documentary
Three of the greatest legends in wine meet to drink the rarest bottles of their careers, while the best blind tasters of today gather to settle an age-old argument. The results could change the world of wine forever.
Director: Jason Wise | Stars: Ian Cauble, Fred Dame, Paul Draper, Laura Fiorvanti
Votes: 562
55. The Grammar of Happiness (2012)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery
The documentary follows the famous and controversial linguist Daniel Everett's field research of the indigenous Pirahã people in Amazonia and their language.
Directors: Michael O'Neill, Randall Wood | Star: Daniel Everett
Votes: 152
56. The Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China (2016 TV Movie)
Documentary
Dan Snow, Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a series of earth-shattering discoveries at a mighty tomb guarded by the Terracotta Warriors in China.
Director: Nic Young | Stars: Albert Yu-Min Lin, Alice Roberts, Dan Snow
Votes: 41
57. The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (2019 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In this gripping investigation, archaeologist Pepi Papakosta is on a hunt for Alexander the Great's lost tomb, and she makes an extraordinary discovery.
Director: Duncan Singh | Stars: Matt McFetridge, Fredrik T. Hiebert, Calliope Limneos-Papakosta, Maria Nilsson
Votes: 473
58. The Massacre That Shook The Empire (2019)
60 min | Documentary, History
On 13 April 1919, British troops shot hundreds of peaceful protesters dead in India. This film shines new light on a deeply controversial moment in Britain's history, and examines its troubling legacy.
Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Sathnam Sanghera, Winston Churchill, Reginald Dyer
Votes: 26
59. The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888?
Director: Jack Macinnes | Stars: Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy
Votes: 63
60. The Rise and Fall of Nokia (2018)
59 min | Documentary, History
How small, idealistic, Finnish company, Nokia, became the global leader in cell phone technology only to become drunk with success, lose its visionary style of leadership and completely fail to predict the rise of its death knell, iPhone.
Director: Arto Koskinen | Stars: Akseli Anttila, Taneli Armanto, Ian Broughall, Seppo Haataja
Votes: 118
61. The Search for Life: The Drake Equation (2010 TV Movie)
TV-G | 59 min | Documentary
A look at the Drake equation, developed by Dr. Frank Drake as a way to think about the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy that could exist and communicate with us.
Director: Tim Usborne | Stars: Dallas Campbell, Frank Drake, Jill Tarter, Paul Davies
Votes: 193
62. The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars (2013 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Under the trenches and fields of the Somme lies a complex and extensive network of tunnels. Here, beneath the wastes of No Man's Land, British and German miners risked a terrible death in ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Fox | Star: Peter Barton
Votes: 22
63. The Story of Plastic (2019)
95 min | Documentary
We only know the end of the story...and that's just the beginning.
Director: Deia Schlosberg | Stars: Delphine Levi Alvares, Yvette Arellano, Prigi Arisandi, Anika Ballent
Votes: 396
64. Thud Pilots (2018)
90 min | Documentary
An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.
Director: Mark Vizcarra | Stars: Larry Poole, John R. Casper, Robert L. Cooper, Dennis W. Jarvi
Votes: 245
65. Titanic: Conspiracy of Failure (2020 TV Movie)
61 min | Documentary
New evidence gathered from modern research shows that a fatal chain of events had to occur for the Titanic to sink. Experts and animations based off scientific conclusions explain how it all went down.
Director: Mike Ibeji | Star: Nicole Fonarow
Votes: 14
66. Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered (2014 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been the most famous pharaoh of all ancient Egypt. But his mysterious death, at just 19 years old, has never been explained.
Director: Tom Stubberfield | Star: Dallas Campbell
Votes: 64
67. Who Will Write Our History (2018)
95 min | Documentary, History
Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberta Grossman | Stars: Jowita Budnik, Piotr Glowacki, Piotr Jankowski, Wojciech Zielinski
Votes: 217 | Gross: $0.14M
68. Wild Cats of India (2020)
TV-PG | Documentary
India's wildcats have been symbols of strength and royalty since the ancient times. This special is a journey across country's contrasting landscapes with an ambition to paint an intimate portrait of the intriguing lives of wildcats.
Stars: James Murray, Sandesh Kadur
Votes: 80
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