Documentary shows

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True-crime thriller that follows a team of homicide detectives as they open an 18-year-old cold case that occurred in one of America's notorious body-dumping grounds, the Louisiana swamplands.

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40 min Discovery Returning Series 3 seasons 26 aired NO EN Crime Documentary 11 votes

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• Season 17 episodes
• Season 211 episodes
• Season 38 episodes

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A four-part documentary about the South African Paralympic and Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who shot and killed his girlfriend in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013. The story of a man and a nation both born to great disadvantage, the film follows the challenges, hopes and triumphs of both and the demise of their dreams under the glare of the world media.

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60 min Prime Video Ended 1 seasons 4 aired NO GB EN Documentary 11 votes

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• Season 14 episodes

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Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.

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60 min PBS Returning Series 40 seasons 524 aired NO US EN Documentary 11 votes

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• Season 03 episodes
• Season 112 episodes
• Season 214 episodes
• Season 316 episodes
• Season 417 episodes
• Season 514 episodes
• Season 612 episodes
• Season 710 episodes
• Season 810 episodes
• Season 913 episodes
• Season 1010 episodes
• Season 1113 episodes

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From critical emergencies to the operating room, this documentary series follows London's trauma centres as they treat the most severely injured.

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Netflix Ended 1 seasons 6 aired TV-MA GB EN Documentary 10 votes

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• Season 16 episodes

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The truth behind the U.S. government's secret Pentagon program on UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, otherwise known as UFOs, is exposed.

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43 min National Geographic Returning Series 2 seasons 11 aired NO US EN Documentary 10 votes

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• Season 15 episodes
• Season 26 episodes

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This series investigated the way that history and memory have been used by politicians and others.

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60 min BBC Two Ended 1 seasons 3 aired NO EN Documentary 10 votes

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• Season 13 episodes

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Die Deutschen is a German television documentary produced for ZDF that first aired from October to November 2008. Each episode recounts a selected epoch of German history, beginning with the reign of Otto the Great and ending with the collapse of the German Empire at the end of the First World War. In November 2010 the second season of Die Deutschen was published in German television, beginning with Charlemagne, the Frankish King, and ending with Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. Historical events are recreated through a combination of live action scenes and computer generated animations. The series was filmed at over 200 different locations in Germany, Malta, and Romania at a cost of approximately €500,000 per episode.

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43 min ZDF Ended 2 seasons 20 aired NO DE DE Documentary 9 votes

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• Season 110 episodes
• Season 210 episodes

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Hailing from a long line of powerful legal figures, Alex Murdaugh along with his wife, Maggie, and sons, Buster and Paul, enjoyed unparalleled sway over authorities, until Paul’s involvement in a tragic boating accident thrust a level of scrutiny on the family’s actions and legacy, revealing a bizarre and deadly chain of events. This docuseries questions the unchecked power of privilege – and the trail of death and destruction left in one family’s wake.

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50 min HBO Max Ended 1 seasons 3 aired TV-MA US EN Documentary 9 votes

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• Season 13 episodes

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On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart places a frantic 911 call reporting that he and his pregnant wife — a white couple — have been shot by a Black man. The ensuing investigation ignites decades-old tensions and brutal racial profiling amidst a media firestorm and skepticism about Stuart's story.

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52 min HBO Ended 1 seasons 3 aired TV-14 US EN Documentary Crime 9 votes

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• Season 13 episodes

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This two-part documentary provides a fascinating glimpse into the making of the Oscar-winning box office phenomenon "Avatar: The Way of Water" and features exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, concept art, and interviews with cast and filmmakers.

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Disney+ Ended 1 seasons 2 aired TV-14 US EN Documentary 8 votes

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• Season 12 episodes

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In America, football is king ... and nowhere is football bigger than in Texas. Esquire Network takes viewers inside the grown-up world of youth football in FRIDAY NIGHT TYKES, a new 10-part docuseries airing Tuesdays at 9p e/p, debuting January 14 with two back-to-back episodes at 9p and 10p e/p. With exclusive access to the 8 to 9 year-old Rookies division in the San Antonio region of the Texas Youth Football Association (TYFA), FRIDAY NIGHT TYKES follows five teams on and off the field throughout the 2013 season, from pre-season training through the state championships. Along the way, cheerleaders cheer, tailgaters barbecue and the crowd goes wild, but intense rivalries flare, parents and coaches clash and the young players face some very adult pressures and concerns, from extreme training drills, heckling from rabid fans, and balancing on-the-field expectations against a typical off-the-field childhood.

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60 min Esquire Network Ended 4 seasons 41 aired NO US EN Reality Documentary 8 votes

Seasons

• Season 111 episodes
• Season 210 episodes
• Season 310 episodes
• Season 410 episodes

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This docuseries reunites audiences with the television friends, families, and co-workers they grew up with while introducing cutting-edge comedies that are sure to be your next binge-watch. Featuring over 180 original interviews with sitcom icons the series breaks down how sitcoms have helped generations of Americans navigate an ever-shifting cultural landscape.

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45 min CNN Ended 1 seasons 8 aired NO US EN Documentary 8 votes

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• Season 18 episodes

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Dashing authors, the first porn sites and the last bastards. How the Russian Internet appeared and how it changed: from complete freedom to the appearance of censorship and the law on isolation.

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30 min Ended 1 seasons 7 aired NO RU RU Documentary 8 votes

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• Season 17 episodes

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60 min National Geographic Ended 1 seasons 13 aired NO CA EN Documentary 8 votes

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• Season 113 episodes

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Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.

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90 min BBC Four Returning Series 4 seasons 695 aired NR GB EN Documentary 8 votes

Seasons

• Season 1692 episodes
• Season 142 episodes
• Season 501 episodes
• Season 491 episodes