Best Documentary TV Series - Page 331
The Invisible Shield
2024
star 6This four-part documentary series, reveals a little-known truth: that public health saved your life today and you probably don’t even know it. But while public health makes modern life possible, the work itself is often underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood.Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East
2010
star 8.2The epic television history of the Second World War’s Eastern Front giving an unprecedented Russian perspective on the war’s most decisive and bloody theater.HMS Brilliant
1995
HMS Brilliant
1995
This six part documentary series covers life on board the Royal Naval warship HMS Brilliant as it patrols the dangerous waters off the coast of Bosnia.Urban Legends
2007
star 7.2Urban Legends is a 30 minute 2007 television documentary-style series hosted by Michael Allcock. David Hewlett became the new host in 2011. In each episode, three urban legends are dramatized and presented to the television audience; the audience is then to speculate which one or two of the three is true. Each legend has witnesses to tell the story. For the one or two fake legends, the witnesses are actors, while the true legend uses real people affected by the story. Included in each episode are two quick quiz-like stories, called mini-myths, which air before the commercial breaks. Each will begin with the number of the mini myth and its name, followed by the story. After the commercial, the answer to the mini-myth is announced and the rest of the programming continues as it previously had. The show originally aired on the Biography Channel in the U.S., History Television in Canada and FX in the United Kingdom where it was hosted by Mark Dolan. It has also aired in Argentina, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, AustraliaOnce Upon a Time in Iraq
2020
star 7.6With unique personal archive from civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, this series takes viewers closer to the realities of war and life under Isis than they have ever been before.Journeys into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker
1999
Jarvis Cocker's three-part survey of outsider art.Britain by Bike
2010
Britain by Bike
2010
Clare Balding embarks on a pedal-powered odyssey across Britain to rediscover the magical world of 1950s cyclingAlien Encounters: Fact or Fiction
2024
star 9Posting up at a local watering hole in Roswell, New Mexico, a town infamous for its UFO past, Horowitz and Newton meet with individuals who have experienced strange and unexplainable encounters.GesundheitsAKTE
2013
GesundheitsAKTE
2013
Nemesis
2024
Nemesis
2024
A landmark series taking you inside the recent Coalition government in a revealing tale of politics, ambition and power. Key players tell all in riveting no holds barred interviews.The Dark Ages: An Age of Light
2012
star 7.5Christianity slowly emerged from being a persecuted minority to the state religion of the Roman Empire. This episode is a history of the ways believers grappled with a way to depict Jesus. Simple symbolic meaning developed into splendid art and churches.Emergency Bikers
2010
Emergency Bikers
2010
Man and the Moon
2019
star 8A scientific and historical mini-series looking at the relationship between human beings and the moon.
