Documentary shows

Overview

Former NBC News fixture Chris Hansen leads a team of correspondents on this series that explores the world of crime, mystery and drama through real-life criminal cases. Hansen brings to the show a modified version of a long-running segment he did at NBC. In "Hansen vs. Predator," he helps bring down predators who use social media to target children. Dirty politicians, financial scammers and celebrities are also targeted by Hansen's investigations. Hansen anchors the show from the streets of New York City, while most of the correspondents are based at the Los Angeles newsroom.

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Returning Series 4 seasons 32 aired NO US EN Reality Crime Documentary 7 votes

Seasons

• Season 117 episodes
• Season 20 episodes
• Season 32 episodes
• Season 413 episodes

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Discover Steve and Terri Irwin's life at the Australia Zoo and the incredible stories that unfold in front of the camera. From the birth of their daughter Bindi, to the amazing operations as they treat the wildest, most outrageous animals on the planet.

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Animal Planet Ended 3 seasons 96 aired TV-G AU EN Documentary 7 votes

Seasons

• Season 113 episodes
• Season 253 episodes
• Season 330 episodes

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Stories of murder investigations that gradually exposed one truth after another, revealing the sinister underbelly beneath seemingly placid communities.

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Investigation Discovery Returning Series 1 seasons 8 aired NO US EN Documentary 6 votes

Seasons

• Season 18 episodes

Overview

An exploration of opera in unconventional ways attempting to attract not just existing opera fans, but also those less familiar with the art form. The host guides the viewer to the places of origin of each opera, and explores the culture, history—and modern and current trends and how they apply to opera.

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50 min La 2 Ended 2 seasons 30 aired NO ES Documentary 6 votes

Seasons

• Season 115 episodes
• Season 215 episodes

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Lars Monsen travels across Canada, encountering wildlife around every corner.

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30 min NRK1 Ended 2 seasons 9 aired NO NO NO Documentary 6 votes

Seasons

• Season 03 episodes
• Season 16 episodes

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A documentary on the history of surgery.

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50 min CCTV-9 Ended 1 seasons 8 aired NO CN ZH Documentary 5 votes

Seasons

• Season 18 episodes

Overview

Show in four half-hour episodes, the series shows how the lives of young people living in the four extremes of São Paulo: North Zone, South, East and West.

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30 min Ended 1 seasons 4 aired NO BR PT Documentary 5 votes

Seasons

• Season 14 episodes

Overview

The border between the USA and Mexico is the busiest in the world. This series follows the work of America's Customs and Border Protection agency, whose job is to defend the border and stop terrorists, drugs and illegal weapons from entering the country.

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Discovery Returning Series 10 seasons 98 aired TV-14 US EN Documentary Crime Reality 5 votes

Seasons

• Season 00 episodes
• Season 110 episodes
• Season 210 episodes
• Season 310 episodes
• Season 412 episodes
• Season 510 episodes
• Season 614 episodes
• Season 78 episodes
• Season 89 episodes
• Season 915 episodes

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Following on from the success of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, this collection of sports documentaries continues to tell compelling stories from the unique perspective of the filmmakers.

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ESPN Returning Series 4 seasons 30 aired NO US EN Documentary 4 votes

Seasons

• Season 01 episodes
• Season 113 episodes
• Season 215 episodes
• Season 32 episodes

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This true-crime series tells stories of actual murders committed not by strangers but by someone the victim knew, someone hiding in plain sight, or someone leading a double life. These wolves in sheep's clothing use deception as a weapon to try to get away with murder.

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Investigation Discovery Returning Series 2 seasons 12 aired NO GB EN Documentary Crime 4 votes

Seasons

• Season 16 episodes
• Season 26 episodes

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"Every estate is unique. Like Coliseum, an arena not only so in Italy, but all over the world on an ancient Roman arena. Great Wall of China, Dujiangyan, Huangshan, also opera ...... is the world's only our movie is hard to interpret the intentions behind these substances to the image of the 'unique' reason can not be copied, and its history along the way from the tortuous experience. "" documentary records themselves are in need of guide words "language, not a tourist manual, so this is not a purely beautiful piece. Crews find and organize is a story of a rich history, "boring narrative and interesting coincidences in history." In the face of the vicissitudes of the scene, with their efforts to understand the cultural and spiritual being numerous times to pay tribute to these antiquities, ruins to explore every tortuous experience in historical events. We look through the lens of their hands is not only seen

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31 min CCTV Ended 1 seasons 2 aired TV-PG CN ZH Documentary 4 votes

Seasons

• Season 138 episodes

Overview

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian. Professor Barry Cunliffe of the University of Oxford acted as consultant for the series.

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

Seasons

• Season 14 episodes

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This series follows the stories of the orangutans and the staff at the world’s biggest orangutan rehabilitation center.

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45 min Smithsonian Channel Returning Series 3 seasons 26 aired TV-PG US EN Documentary 4 votes

Seasons

• Season 110 episodes
• Season 210 episodes
• Season 36 episodes

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This nail-biting series follows people who take the risk to move in with relative strangers. Small disagreements soon bring out the worst in one another until tensions escalate, provoking claustrophobic rages that erupt into heinous acts of violence.

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43 min Investigation Discovery Ended 1 seasons 8 aired TV-14 US EN Crime Documentary 4 votes

Seasons

• Season 18 episodes

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Throughout the world, angry crowds are confronting heavily armed law enforcement forces. Journalist Paul Moreira immerses himself in demonstrations and interviews experts to shed light on the causes of this repressive shift.

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52 min ARTE Ended 1 seasons 2 aired NO FR FR Documentary Drama 4 votes

Seasons

• Season 12 episodes