Popular Documentary TV Series - Page 142

Found Footage Finds

2025

Found Footage Finds

2025
A docuseries presented in found footage style, exploring the world of found footage and fake documentary movies. Each episode is broken down by subgenre, featuring recommendations, filmmaker interviews, and historical & behind-the-scenes information.
Kids of Courage

2019

Kids of Courage

2019
8
This outstanding and sensitive drama series tells a young and family audience the stories of children who lived through a most difficult era in recent history - and who grew with its challenges.
Growing Up

2022

Growing Up

2022
6.7
An innovative hybrid docu-series that explores the challenges, joys and complexities of adolescence through ten compelling coming-of-age stories. Growing Up draws on storytelling, experimentation and documentary to let 18- to 21-year-olds tell their stories.
Shot in the Dark

2017

Shot in the Dark

2017
7.3
Three rival freelance stringers scour the streets at night to film crime scenes, fires, accidents -- and anything else they can sell to news outlets.
Motion

2009

Motion

2009
Motion features host Greg Aiello as he explores a variety of outdoor activities. From the Channel Islands in California to Bryce Canyon National Park, Maui, and Big Sur, Aiello takes a Nature-lovers perspective on exploration. Often times filmed solely by Aiello himself, the show acts as a guide on how to adventure to less-traveled places. Camping on a budget, kayaking with friends, and hiking mountains with safety cables are examples of Aiello's hobbies that are documented for viewers to see. Each half hour episode takes viewers to a location off the beaten path, with directions on exactly how to get there. With summer and winter vacations highlighted, Motion is produced with the average outdoorsmen in mind. Aiello narrates throughout, providing an inside look into his climbing, hiking, photography, and general fitness abilities.
Dark Tourist

2018

Dark Tourist

2018
6.7
The definition of "tourism" is redefined as New Zealand filmmaker David Farrier sets his sights on the world of dark tourism. From nuclear tourism in Japan to Pablo Escobar-inspired tourism in Colombia to frontier tourism in Turkmenistan, David visits the world’s grisly and offbeat destinations, meeting travelers drawn to them, and the people telling these stories day after day.
Broadmoor: For The Criminally Insane

2024

Broadmoor: For The Criminally Insane

2024
Exposing the truth at one of our most feared institutions, by the people who were there.
Sex Change Hospital

2007

Sex Change Hospital

2007
4
Sex Change Hospital is an American six-part documentary series following trans men and women having genital reassignment surgeries. Dr. Marci Bowers performs the surgeries and calls upon her own experiences as a transgender woman to guide her patients as they go through the ultimate life changing procedure.
Ein Wochenende mit

2010

Ein Wochenende mit

2010
tvN Shift

2018

tvN Shift

2018
Documentaries that offer a shift in perspective on a variety of topics in modern society.
Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner

2025

Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner

2025
Follow Kevin Costner as he traces the footsteps of the pivotal 1903 Yosemite expedition of 26th President Teddy Roosevelt and environmental advocate John Muir. Through spectacular visuals of the geology, flora, and fauna of Glacier Point to El Capitan, Yosemite Falls and more, Costner brings the fascinating journey and long battles to preserve the American frontier to life.
Icons Unearthed: Tom Cruise

2024

Icons Unearthed: Tom Cruise

2024
7.5
From his breakout role in Risky Business with his unforgettable slide and famous grin, to saving the movie business with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise has pushed himself and those around him to make the best movies possible.
Pilgrimage to Football Meccas

2014

Pilgrimage to Football Meccas

2014
10
Dan

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Dan

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Imad Al-Maliki, the world karate champion in the Dan series, shares with us many of his experiences in his sports career, within the framework of a motivational narrative; It highlights a number of problems and challenges that we face in life in general and how we deal with them, based on his experience.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams

2007

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

2007
3
Boulevard of Broken Dreams is an American documentary series that aired the E! television network from January to March 2007. The series focuses on stories about celebrities who have struggled with fame, staged major comebacks after falling from grace, or who met untimely ends.
And Yet The Books

2019

And Yet The Books

2019
7
"And Yet the Books" takes books as its subject matter, and strives to record the various book lovers in this era and capture the wonderful stories related to books in the current era of diversified and fragmented reading.
All or Nothing: Brazil National Team

2020

All or Nothing: Brazil National Team

2020
7.1
The series follows the newly crowned champions of the 2019 Copa América tournament, the Brazilian football team, in a behind-the-scenes multi-part exclusive.
Jonas Brothers: Moments Between the Moments

2021

Jonas Brothers: Moments Between the Moments

2021
A mini-series that documents the lives of the Jonas Brothers during their Remember This tour.
The Real Hunt for Red October

2021

The Real Hunt for Red October

2021
5.5
The astonishing secret events behind the Russian submarine, Red October, that went missing on March 8, 1968, taking the Soviet Union and U.S. to the brink of war.
Guy Garvey: From the Vaults

2020

Guy Garvey: From the Vaults

2020
8.2
Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.