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History Documentaries

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Strange Objects From Time and Space
Strange Objects From Time and Space
2025
3h 35m
TV-14
Documentary
The Fog of War
The Fog of War
2003
1h 48m
PG-13
Documentary
Surviving Hitler's Mad Doctors
Surviving Hitler's Mad Doctors
2022
1h 5m
TV-14
Documentary
Skin: A History of Nudity in Movies
Skin: A History of Nudity in Movies
2020
2h 11m
TV-MA
Documentary
Oceangate Disaster: Minute by Minute
Oceangate Disaster: Minute by Minute
2026
58m
TV-PG
Documentary · Independent · Foreign/International
World War II: A History of WWII (Pt. 2)
World War II: A History of WWII (Pt. 2)
2001
57m
TV-14
Documentary · War
Neil Young: The First Decade
Neil Young: The First Decade
2007
1h 29m
TV-PG
Documentary · Music
Reclaiming the Blade
Reclaiming the Blade
2009
1h 18m
TV-PG
Documentary
Victorian Britain on Film
Cracking the Da Vinci Code
D.O.A.: A Right of Passage
America's Secret War
Horses
Genesis of Time
Enigmas of the Ancient World
The Mysteries of Egypt: Ancient Egypt
City of a Million Dreams
History Storytellers: Gettysburg
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
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Biography Documentaries

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Michael Jackson: Life, Death and Legacy
Michael Jackson: Life, Death and Legacy
2012
1h 18m
TV-14
Documentary · Music
Amy
Amy
2015
2h 9m
R
Documentary · Independent · Music
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
1h 25m
TV-PG
Documentary
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
1h 43m
TV-14
Documentary
Adele: A New Chapter
Adele: A New Chapter
2021
44m
TV-PG
Documentary · Music
The Man Who Saved Ben-Hur
In the Name of Love: The Life and Death of Princess Diana
Leonard Cohen: Enigmatic Artist
Without Getting Killed or Caught
Stories We Tell
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
Neil Young: The First Decade
Hargrove
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Beyoncé: Limited Edition
John Wayne: America at All Cost
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Nature Documentaries

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Planetary
Winter Wonderland
Yellowstone in Depth
Escape From Extinction
The Lake at the Bottom of the World
Revolution
The Elephants of Selenkay
The Wild Connection
Africa’s Deadly Kingdom: Deserts
The Secret Life of Seals
Australian Small Birds
Wyoming: In the Reclusive Heart of America
Meet the Meerkats
The Alps From Above
Wild America: Fantastic Follies
The Real Angry Birds
Animal River Challenge: Eye of the Eagle
The Brown Hyena of Makgadikgadi
Epic Oceans: Shorelines
Epic Oceans: Open Ocean
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Science Documentaries

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Behind the Curve
AI Evolution
Food Evolution
Cosmic Encounters
How to Survive an Atomic Bomb
Bill Nye: Science Guy
Prescription: Nutrition
The Secret Life of Materials
Wild America: Fantastic Follies
Animal River Challenge: Eye of the Eagle
Epic Oceans: Shorelines
Epic Oceans: Open Ocean
CERN
Exploring Quantum History With Brian Greene
Dinosaur Extinction: Behind the Asteroid Impact Theory
Forests of Our Earth
The Privileged Planet
Nature's Weirdest
Destination: Mars
C-Pattern Theory: Solving the Mystery of Consciousness
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Travel Documentaries

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Xamayca: Land of Water and Forest
Washington the Beautiful
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Route 66: A Cruise Down Main Street
Wyoming: In the Reclusive Heart of America
Baraka
Switzerland: Quest for the Sublime
The Alps From Above
Snow to Sand
Hidden Japan
Whisky: The Islay Edition
Animal River Challenge: Eye of the Eagle
Discovering the Ancient Colors of Yucatan
Morocco: Quest for the Kasbah
Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey
10 Days in Japan
Secret Life of the Long-Haul Flight
Gringo Trails
Dark Green: Alone in the Amazon
Hidden UK
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Military and War Documentaries

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Combat Obscura
Fahrenheit 9/11
Civil War: Left for Dead
The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
Let There Be Light
America's Secret War
Hondros
World of Tanks and Commanders
A Day in Vietnam
Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy
We Were There
Mau Mau
Skip Liberty: Shooting in Vietnam
In the Shadow of Suribachi: Sammy's Story
We Served Too: Women Pilots of WWII - The Untold Story
The Coming War on China
Top Guns: The Documentary
The Occupation of the American Mind
17th Airborne: The Bulge to the Rhine
Taxi to the Dark Side
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Political Documentaries

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Capitol Riots Movie
#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Zeitgeist: The Movie
Citizenfour
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
State Organs
Trumpism & The Jewish American Community
9/11: Decade of Deception
Terror's Advocate
The Matter of Life
Dateline: Saigon
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Primary
Trump Card
The Dissident
The Monopoly on Violence
Shadow World
The Ballymurphy Precedent
The Brink
Active Measures
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Art Documentaries

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My Body Is Not Obscene
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
Napoleon: In The Name of Art
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World
Grain: Analog Renaissance
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Kusama: Infinity
Artists in NYC
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Driven to Abstraction
Shoot Like a Pro: The Photographer
Freeports: The Beauty of Tax-Free Storage
A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
The Louvre
Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams
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Animal Documentaries

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Horses
Africa’s Deadly Kingdom: Deserts
The Secret Life of Seals
Meet the Meerkats
Wild America: Fantastic Follies
The Real Angry Birds
Animal River Challenge: Eye of the Eagle
The Brown Hyena of Makgadikgadi
Epic Oceans: Open Ocean
Animal Instincts: Five Trumps One: The Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plain
Mountain Lion: The Ghost Cat
Rainforest Home
Nature's Weirdest
Our Nature: Call of the Wild
Gorillas: Rumble in the Jungle
Wild Oceans
The Pet Collective: World Pup
The Ideal Companion
The Wild Pacific
Massive Africa: Okavango Swamps
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Culture Documentaries

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Stripped: Nashville
The Amish Dilemma
Ocean of Grass: Life on a Nebraska Sandhills Ranch
The Konyak of Nagaland
Buring Man: Beyond Black Rock
New England Indians
Boutique: To Preserve and Collect
The Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Secrets of the Desert
Fiddlin'
A Time for Making
Underbelly
City of a Million Dreams
Voices Across the Water
What We Started
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Zydeco Crossroads: A Tale of Two Cities
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
Discovering the Ancient Colors of Yucatan
Carmen & Geoffrey
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Religious Documentaries

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Beyond the Akashic: Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation and the Code
Kumare
Seven Wonders of the Muslim World
The Scroll: Transformation
Cracking the Da Vinci Code
God Versus Aliens
Holy Relics: The Quest
The Religion Matrix
The Invocation
Unorthodox
VICE Versa: Crusaders
Bad Faith
St. Augustine: Son of Her Tears
Avatars of the Astral Worlds
The Case for Heaven
God & Country
The Essential Church
Is God Real
Loreto: The Mystery of the Holy House
Ghosts and the Afterlife: A Scientific Investigation
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Educational Documentaries

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Happy
The Vanished
Oceangate Disaster: Minute by Minute
The Truth About Reading
Neil Young: The First Decade
The Test & the Art of Thinking
The Cancer Documentary
UFO Government Files Declassified
The Mindfulness Movement
Victorian Britain on Film
Yellowstone in Depth
Aquariums: The Dark Hobby
Finding Happiness
The Lake at the Bottom of the World
Stories We Tell
O Gauge Train Maintenance: You Can Do It! (Pt. 3)
The Wild Connection
Killing Ed: Charter Schools, Corruption and the Gulen Movement in America
UFO Aliens Disclosed: Paranormal or Planetary?
Snow to Sand
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Crime Documentaries

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Target of Opportunity
The Pig Farm
Columbine Shooting: Minute by Minute
VICE News Presents: 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself'
Suburban Nightmare: JonBenet Ramsey
Finding Kendrick Johnson
Evil Among Us: Ted Bundy
The House on Sweet and Seventh
Branded & Brainwashed: Inside NXIVM
Love You To Death: The Jodi Arias Story
TMZ Investigates: The Reiner Murders: What Really Happened
On Trial: The Idaho College Killer
Citizen Sleuth
The Soham Murders
A Fire Within
The Prison Within
The Murder of Meredith Kercher
Conviction: The True Story of Clarence Elkins
Truth or Dare: The Murder of Mary Gregory
The Football Player Murders
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Music Documentaries

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Most Shocking Celebrity Deaths of All Time
Amy
Bluebird
20,000 Days on Earth
Duran Duran: A Hollywood High
Eric Clapton: Standing at the Crossroads
Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm
King Rocker
D.O.A.: A Right of Passage
Adele: A New Chapter
Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video
Beatles: The Journey
Without Getting Killed or Caught
Highway to Hell: A Classic Album Under Review
Streetlight Harmonies
Pink Floyd: Following the Footsteps
What We Started
Count Me In
Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody
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Sports Documentaries

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No Packers, No Life
Sky Jumpers
In Search of Greatness
MotoGP: Marc Marquez More Than a Comeback
Summer of '94
Rafael Nadal: The King of Clay
Time Trial
Come to the Edge
Because They Believed
Speed is My Need
Perfect
Enter the Slipstream
Moto 4: The Movie
Super Bowl LV Champions: The 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
First Position
The Fittest
2018: The Ultimate Test
Iron Sheik: The Maim Event
Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL
Into the Mind
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Food Documentaries

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Fed Up
Gather
Animal
Open to Close: Inside the World's Top Restaurants
Wasted: The Story of Food Waste
Food Evolution
Eat Play Diet
Noma: My Perfect Storm
PlantPure Nation
Milked
Not Just a Picky Eater
Bugs on the Menu
The Invisible Vegan
Globesity
Beyond Impossible
The Fruit Hunters
Forks Over Knives
Hiro's Table
The Magic Pill
Gluten: Public Enemy?
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Space Documentaries

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Planetary
Cosmic Encounters
Secret Space UFOs: NASAs First Missions
Moonwalk One
Off Earth
Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
Apollo 12: Uncensored
Confessions From Space: Apollo
Apollo: The Forgotten Films
Project Gemini: Bridge to the Moon
The Privileged Planet
Destination: Mars
How Earth Was Formed
Mars Calling: Manifest Destiny or Grand Illusion
Starscape
Kingdom of Saturn: Cassini's Epic Quest
Rosetta Comet Chaser: A Journey to the Origins of Life
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
Wow Signal
The Space Shuttle
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Conspiracy Documentaries

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Zeitgeist: The Movie
Fahrenheit 9/11
Behind the Curve
Above Majestic
Branded & Brainwashed: Inside NXIVM
Citizen Sleuth
9/11: Decade of Deception
Dateline: Saigon
Assassinations: How Murder Makes History
Humanoids: The Real Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
The Dissident
UFO Chronicles: Aliens on Earth
The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed
Aliens and Pyramids
VICE Versa: Crusaders
The Plot Against the President
UAP: Death of the UFO
UFO Aliens Disclosed: Paranormal or Planetary?
Dark Alliance: The Next Generation
Alien Portals: Time Travel, Prophecy and Missing People
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Environmental Documentaries

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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
The Age of Consequences
Milked
Big Men
Yellowstone in Depth
Aquariums: The Dark Hobby
Escape From Extinction
The Lake at the Bottom of the World
Revolution
The Elephants of Selenkay
Snow to Sand
Florida Keys: Protecting Paradise
Navajo Nation USA
The Green Planet
To Which We Belong
Forests of Our Earth
Rainforest Home
We Are Destroyed
Wonders of the Sea
Endgame 2050
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Health Documentaries

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Foods That Cure Disease
Surviving Hitler's Mad Doctors
To Err Is Human
To Dye For: The Documentary
Under Our Skin
PlantPure Nation
An Island of the Mind
Tipping the Pain Scale
Not Just a Picky Eater
Microbiota: The Amazing Powers of the Gut
Invisible
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
The Invisible Patients
Hush
Globesity
Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain
Terrain
Prescription: Nutrition
Unsupersize Me
The Quiet Epidemic
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Technology Documentaries

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The Sexbots Are Coming
AI Evolution
Screened Out
Atificial Immortality
Joy of Data
2030
TikTok Boom
Tower to the People: Tesla's Dream at Wardenclyffe
Elon Musk: To the Limit
Victorian Britain on Film
How to Survive an Atomic Bomb
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Juice: How Electricity Explains the World
The Secret Life of Materials
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
Seeking Intelligence: Past, Present and Future of AI
Invalidated
Netflix vs. the World
The Bomb
CERN
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