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Best Documentary Series

The 50 highest-rated documentary series among the 1,063 with at least 1,000 IMDb votes, ranked by IMDb rating and votes. Ratings are IMDb’s. Badges show the services that carry each title in your country; pick one to keep only its titles. Open a title for every way to watch it, or run it as a live search to see the badges on every card.

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1. 1
   Planet Earth(2006)

   ★ 9.4 · 237K votes · Documentary, Family

2. 2
   Planet Earth II(2016)

   ★ 9.4 · 177K votes · Documentary, Family

3. 3
   Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey(2014)

   ★ 9.2 · 141K votes · Documentary, Family, Mystery, History

4. 4
   The Last Dance(2020)

   ★ 9.0 · 184K votes · Biography, Documentary, History, Drama, Sport

5. 5
   Blue Planet II(2017)

   ★ 9.3 · 59K votes · Documentary, Family

6. 6
   Our Planet(2019)

   ★ 9.2 · 64K votes · Documentary, Family

7. 7
   Cosmos(1980)

   ★ 9.3 · 54K votes · Documentary

8. 8
   Clarkson's Farm(2021)

   ★ 9.0 · 90K votes · Comedy, Documentary, Reality-TV, Adventure

9. 9
   Life(2009)

   ★ 9.1 · 51K votes · Documentary

10. 10
    The Blue Planet(2001)

    ★ 9.0 · 51K votes · Documentary, Family

11. 11
    The World at War(1973)

    ★ 9.2 · 38K votes · Documentary, History, War

12. 12
    Nathan for You(2013)

    ★ 8.9 · 51K votes · Comedy, Documentary

13. 13
    The Vietnam War(2017)

    ★ 9.1 · 37K votes · Documentary, History, War

14. 14
    Making a Murderer(2015)

    ★ 8.5 · 109K votes · Crime, Documentary

15. 15
    Frozen Planet(2011)

    ★ 9.0 · 41K votes · Documentary, Family

16. 16
    Human Planet(2011)

    ★ 9.0 · 34K votes · Documentary

17. 17
    The Beatles: Get Back(2021)

    ★ 8.9 · 38K votes · Biography, Documentary, History, Music

18. 18
    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst(2015)

    ★ 8.6 · 59K votes · Biography, Crime, Documentary, Mystery, History

19. 19
    Formula 1: Drive to Survive(2019)

    ★ 8.5 · 61K votes · Documentary, Sport

20. 20
    The Civil War(1990)

    ★ 9.0 · 27K votes · Documentary, History, War

21. 21
    Apocalypse: The Second World War(2009)

    ★ 9.0 · 21K votes · Documentary, History, War

22. 22
    Africa(2013)

    ★ 8.9 · 24K votes · Documentary, Family

23. 23
    MythBusters(2003)

    ★ 8.3 · 57K votes · Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, Adventure

24. 24
    The Rehearsal(2022)

    ★ 8.5 · 38K votes · Comedy, Documentary

25. 25
    Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer(2019)

    ★ 8.0 · 71K votes · Crime, Documentary, Mystery

26. 26
    An Idiot Abroad(2010)

    ★ 8.3 · 36K votes · Adventure, Comedy, Documentary

27. 27
    Top Gear(1978)

    ★ 8.4 · 25K votes · Documentary, Talk-Show

28. 28
    Beckham(2023)

    ★ 8.1 · 41K votes · Biography, Documentary, Sport

29. 29
    Through the Wormhole(2010)

    ★ 8.6 · 19K votes · Documentary, Sci-Fi, Mystery

30. 30
    How to with John Wilson(2020)

    ★ 8.7 · 17K votes · Comedy, Documentary

31. 31
    Inside Look: The People v. O.J. Simpson - American Crime Story(2016)

    ★ 8.3 · 28K votes · Documentary, Short

32. 32
    Rise of Empires: Ottoman(2020)

    ★ 8.0 · 48K votes · Documentary, Drama, History, War

33. 33
    Welcome to Wrexham(2022)

    ★ 8.3 · 26K votes · Documentary, Reality-TV, Sport, Drama, Comedy

34. 34
    Long Way Round(2004)

    ★ 8.6 · 17K votes · Adventure, Documentary

35. 35
    The Beatles Anthology(1995)

    ★ 9.1 · 11K votes · Documentary, Music

36. 36
    Wild Wild Country(2018)

    ★ 8.0 · 39K votes · Crime, Documentary, History

37. 37
    Chef's Table(2015)

    ★ 8.5 · 18K votes · Biography, Documentary

38. 38
    The Defiant Ones(2017)

    ★ 8.5 · 16K votes · Biography, Crime, Documentary, Music, History

39. 39
    Greatest Events of WWII in Colour(2019)

    ★ 8.6 · 14K votes · Documentary, History, War

40. 40
    The Keepers(2017)

    ★ 8.0 · 28K votes · Crime, Documentary, Mystery, Drama, History

41. 41
    Tiger King(2020)

    ★ 7.5 · 92K votes · Biography, Crime, Documentary

42. 42
    Arnold(2023)

    ★ 8.0 · 24K votes · Biography, Documentary

43. 43
    Cosmos: Possible Worlds(2020)

    ★ 9.0 · 9K votes · Documentary, Family

44. 44
    The Joy of Painting(1983)

    ★ 9.3 · 7K votes · Documentary, Family

45. 45
    The Staircase(2004)

    ★ 7.8 · 30K votes · Crime, Documentary, Drama

46. 46
    Prehistoric Planet(2022)

    ★ 8.4 · 13K votes · Animation, Documentary, Family, History

47. 47
    Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes(2019)

    ★ 7.7 · 35K votes · Biography, Crime, Documentary

48. 48
    Seven Worlds One Planet(2019)

    ★ 9.3 · 7K votes · Documentary, Family

49. 49
    The Untold History of the United States(2012)

    ★ 8.6 · 10K votes · Documentary, History, War

50. 50
    Are You Sure?!(2024)

    ★ 8.7 · 9K votes · Adventure, Documentary, Family