Documentary shows

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This spectacular five-part series, presented by Tony Robinson, investigates the history of natural disasters, from the planet's beginnings to the present, putting a new perspective on our existence – that we are the product of catastrophe. Using the latest CGI effects and featuring scientific experts, the series reveals how the evolution of life on Earth has been shaped by lethal catastrophes that have caused mass extinctions, almost to the point of wiping out life altogether.

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60 min Channel 4 Ended 1 seasons 5 aired NR GB EN Documentary 4 votes

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• Season 15 episodes

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Survival is one of television's longest-running and most successful nature documentary series. Originally produced by Anglia Television for ITV in the United Kingdom, it was created by Aubrey Buxton, a founder director of Anglia TV, and first broadcast in 1961. Survival films and film-makers won more than 250 awards worldwide, including four Emmy Awards and a BAFTA.

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ITV1 Ended 7 seasons 9 aired NR GB EN Documentary 4 votes

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• Season 16 episodes
• Season 22 episodes
• Season 31 episodes
• Season 40 episodes
• Season 510 episodes
• Season 610 episodes
• Season 71 episodes

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Ended 1 seasons 1 aired NO GB EN Documentary 4 votes

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• Season 11 episodes

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Telling the story of a group of rival engineers who created the most transformative invention of the 20th century, this docuseries explores over a century of innovation from Honda, Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, Porsche, Rolls Royce and more.

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Sky History Ended 1 seasons 4 aired NO GB EN Documentary 4 votes

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• Season 14 episodes

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60 min Antena 3 Returning Series 18 seasons 482 aired NR ES ES Documentary Crime Drama News 4 votes

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• Season 125 episodes
• Season 244 episodes
• Season 313 episodes
• Season 424 episodes
• Season 536 episodes
• Season 637 episodes
• Season 738 episodes
• Season 837 episodes
• Season 933 episodes
• Season 1038 episodes
• Season 1124 episodes
• Season 1239 episodes

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51 min ARTE Ended 1 seasons 2 aired NO FR FR Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 12 episodes

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ARTE Ended 1 seasons 2 aired NO FR FR Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 12 episodes

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Crews are embedded with U.S. Customs agents uncover the hidden world of smuggling — from well-established cartel operations to wild party boats returning from the Caribbean.

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Discovery Returning Series 2 seasons 12 aired NO US EN Reality Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 112 episodes
• Season 20 episodes

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Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. There’s strong evidence of the asteroid impact, but no fossils of a dinosaur killed in the event have ever been found. Now, at a dig site in North Dakota, scientists have uncovered a wealth of fossilized creatures that could reveal a more detailed picture of the devastating day the asteroid hit.

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88 min Ended 1 seasons 2 aired NO GB EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 12 episodes

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Uncover the secrets of the most mysterious and powerful knightly order of the Middle Ages – the Knights Templar. You will see how their power and influence grew almost to the heavens, but also how they finally succumbed to the flames of alleged heresy. We will show you the rituals and traditions of this medieval knightly order. You will find out how a devastating smear campaign aimed at destroying the entire order took place or how rumors spread that the Templars survived, went into hiding and their order secretly continues. You will even learn how the Templars influenced the Holy Land and how they connected it to the European continent. The secrets of the Knights Templar are revealed for the first time in a three-part historical documentary miniseries of the same name. Don't be fooled by the legends surrounding the Templars and get acquainted with the latest historical findings.

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RMC Découverte Ended 1 seasons 3 aired NO FR FR Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 13 episodes

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Millions of tourists visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia every year to marvel at its remarkable architecture, yet most are probably unaware that when it was built nearly 1,000 years ago it was even more impressive. Using remote sensing technology, scientists now know what is hidden beneath the nearby paddy fields and jungle: a sophisticated metropolis with an elaborate network of houses, canals, boulevards and temples covering 30 square kilometres that housed three-quarters of a million people. To put that into perspective, London at that time was home to just 18,000. These previously hidden finds tell us a great deal about life during the golden age of the powerful Khmer dynasty.

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60 min BBC Two Ended 1 seasons 2 aired NO GB EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 12 episodes

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Extreme Survival is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Russia, where he demonstrates his wilderness skills and shares amazing tales of survival from some of the world's most menacing environments. The show was first broadcast in 1999, after the success of World of Survival from 1997–1998, and ended in 2002. His journeys have take him to the farthest corners of the earth, encountering indigenous peoples who embody his philosophy and live in tune with their natural environment.

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30 min Discovery Ended 3 seasons 17 aired NO US EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 16 episodes
• Season 26 episodes
• Season 35 episodes

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A history of the English language from its early beginnings to present day English in all its variations. In 9 episodes.

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60 min PBS Ended 1 seasons 9 aired NO GB EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 19 episodes

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Discover Magazine is a 1992-2000 documentary television series that aired on the Disney Channel from 1992-1994 and then on The Science Channel from 1996-2000. The series is named after the magazine of the same name, Discover Magazine. The Disney Channel series was narrated by actor Joseph Campanella. The Science Channel series was hosted by Peter DeMeo from 1996-1998. The series was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational Series" in 1996, 1997 for "Outstanding Non-Fiction Series", and 1 other time The series was created by producer-director Les Guthman at the Walt Disney Company in 1991, after Mr. Guthman licensed the television rights to Discover Magazine from Family Media in 1990. Mr. Guthman produced the series for two seasons on The Disney Channel, 1992-1994, and then working with Disney President and CEO Frank Wells sold the series to Discovery Communications in late 1994, after The Disney Channel abandoned its family-adult prime time schedule.

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Ended 6 seasons 3 aired NO EN Documentary News 3 votes

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• Season 17 episodes
• Season 26 episodes
• Season 36 episodes
• Season 46 episodes
• Season 56 episodes
• Season 61 episodes

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This documentary series follows Dr. Sasha Reid and her secret society who share a common obsession — the dark psychology of those who commit harm and the desire to protect those that law enforcement has ignored. They band together to work outside the system to protect the vulnerable, solve cold cases, and dive into the dark minds of killers using forensic expertise and world-class data skills. Their motto is to have compassion first, but let the evidence lead.

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Freeform Returning Series 1 seasons 5 aired TV-14 US EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 15 episodes