Documentary shows

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Exactly one hundred years after Robert L. Ripley launched the brand, this reboot explores the bizarre, extraordinary, the death defying, the odd and the unusual with astonishing, real, one-of-a-kind stories.

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42 min Travel Channel Ended 1 seasons 10 aired TV-G US EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 110 episodes

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The most eminent fighters in human history, detailing the greatest achievements on the battlefields, command of their armies, brilliant strategies and unique fighting styles that enabled them to conquer their enemies in overwhelming force.

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44 min Sky History Ended 1 seasons 6 aired NO CZ EN Documentary War & Politics 3 votes

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• Season 16 episodes

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PLANÈTE+ Ended 1 seasons 6 aired NO FR FR Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 16 episodes

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This documentary series showcases how key technological innovations enable giant superstructures to be built. Footage filmed during construction along with CGI reveal the building process with astonishing detail.

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45 min Science Returning Series 5 seasons 39 aired TV-PG US EN Documentary Reality 3 votes

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• Season 18 episodes
• Season 28 episodes
• Season 35 episodes
• Season 48 episodes
• Season 510 episodes

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An investigative look into the life of the boy-king, his environment and his death.

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SBS Ended 2 seasons 4 aired NO AU EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 01 episodes
• Season 13 episodes

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An in-depth look at Victoria Cilliers' apparent skydiving 'accident' during which both her main and reserve parachutes failed, sending her hurtling straight to the ground. The incident set in motion an investigation by a pair of dogged detectives, DC Maddy Hennah and DI Paul Franklin, who spent two years pulling at the threads of Emile's life - revealing affairs, debts, sex clubs, escorts and murderous intent.

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Channel 4 Returning Series 1 seasons 3 aired NO GB EN Documentary Crime 3 votes

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• Season 13 episodes

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France 2 Returning Series 8 seasons 218 aired NR FR FR Crime Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 018 episodes
• Season 121 episodes
• Season 228 episodes
• Season 327 episodes
• Season 427 episodes
• Season 548 episodes
• Season 639 episodes
• Season 710 episodes

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We get to see hair-raising, intense and surprising clips from the police archives, and we get close up on life-threatening situations.

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43 min Kanal 5 Returning Series 9 seasons 91 aired NO DK DA Documentary Reality Crime 3 votes

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• Season 112 episodes
• Season 217 episodes
• Season 36 episodes
• Season 410 episodes
• Season 510 episodes
• Season 68 episodes
• Season 710 episodes
• Season 810 episodes
• Season 98 episodes

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Describes the intrigue and drama that caused a celebrity to become despised, shocked Chicago and beyond, and left a path of destroyed reputations and careers. The Osundairo brothers will provide all the details related to the false crime.

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Fox Nation Ended 1 seasons 6 aired NR US EN Documentary Crime 3 votes

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• Season 16 episodes

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Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.

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49 min SundanceTV Ended 2 seasons 13 aired TV-MA FR EN Documentary Crime 197 votes

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• Season 010 episodes
• Season 113 episodes

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Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.

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44 min Netflix Ended 2 seasons 12 aired NO US EN Documentary War & Politics Action & Adventure 343 votes

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• Season 16 episodes
• Season 26 episodes

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Michael Palin explores European countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.

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60 min BBC One Ended 2 seasons 7 aired TV-PG GB EN Documentary 15 votes

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• Season 010 episodes
• Season 17 episodes

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Have you ever wondered how the products you use every day are made? How It's Made leads you through the process of how everyday products, such as apple juice, skateboards, engines, contact lenses, and many more objects are manufactured.

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30 min Discovery Canceled 33 seasons 478 aired TV-G CA EN Documentary 161 votes

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• Season 073 episodes
• Season 113 episodes
• Season 213 episodes
• Season 313 episodes
• Season 413 episodes
• Season 513 episodes
• Season 613 episodes
• Season 713 episodes
• Season 813 episodes
• Season 913 episodes
• Season 1013 episodes
• Season 1113 episodes

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Donal MacIntyre goes in search of the world's wildest weather.

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60 min BBC One Ended 1 seasons 4 aired NO GB EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 14 episodes

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Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from?

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54 min Ended 1 seasons 7 aired NR US EN Documentary 3 votes

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• Season 17 episodes