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1. Standing on Sacred Ground (2013)
228 min | Documentary, History, News
Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series. In the US and around ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher McLeod | Stars: Luana Busby-Neff, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Q'orianka Kilcher
Votes: 12
2. When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
TV-G | 48 min | Documentary, History
Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise, WHEN WE LEFT EARTH is the incredible story of humankind's greatest adventure, as it happened, told by the people who were there. From the early ... See full summary »
Stars: Gene Kranz, Gary Sinise, Jim Lovell, Eugene Cernan
Votes: 2,044
3. Finding the Gold Within (2014)
93 min | Documentary, Drama
Six young black men from Akron, Ohio, enter college, determined to redefine society's images and low expectations. Despite their confidence, the stark reality of being away from home brings... See full summary »
Director: Karina Epperlein
Votes: 23
4. Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss (2013)
57 min | Documentary, History, News
'Profit and Loss' tells the stories of two indigenous groups and their resistance to the modern gold rush - our insatiable thirst for mineral resources that threatens their lands. In Papua ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher McLeod | Star: Graham Greene
Votes: 9
5. Nova (1974– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Science documentaries about various topics.
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Stacy Keach, Eric Meyers
Votes: 3,100
6. Horizon (I) (1964– )
50 min | Documentary
British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.
Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach
Votes: 1,149
7. How We Got to Now (2014– )
TV-PG | 360 min | Documentary, History
Explores the power and the legacy of great ideas.
Stars: Steven Johnson, Gene Chruszcz, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Terri Adams
Votes: 411
8. Years of Living Dangerously (2014–2016)
TV-PG | Documentary
From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this groundbreaking documentary event series provides first-hand reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change.
Stars: Thomas Friedman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, America Ferrera, Ian Somerhalder
Votes: 826
9. Emile Norman: By His Own Design (2007 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Avant garde artist and bohemian Emile Norman is profiled and his life as an out and proud gay man in Big Sur, California is examined.
Director: Will Parrinello | Stars: Emile Norman, Angus Whyte, C. Kevin Smith, Jeffrey Mallory
Votes: 17
10.
Undercover History (1997– )
Episode:
The Hunt for the Boston Strangler
(2007)
Documentary, History
Police closed the case of the infamous Boston Strangler when Albert De Salvo confessed to the murder of 13 women. Recent forensic evidence reveals that in at least one of the murders police may have had the wrong man.
Director: Noel Dockstader | Stars: Tim Thunderhorse Halpin, Jo Adell, Liz Anderson, Tim Brazil
Votes: 9
11.
Years of Living Dangerously (2014–2016)
Episode:
The Uprooted
(2016)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman investigates the increasing population of climate refugees and actor Don Cheadle is on the ground in California, where the worst drought in 1,200 years is having devastating effects.
Directors: Tom Casciato, Sydney Trattner | Stars: Don Cheadle, Jay Famiglietti, Thomas Friedman
Votes: 23
12. Evolution (2002)
480 min | Documentary, Drama
This magazine-style documentary outlines biological evolution through a variety of dramatizations and data delivered by expert testimony.
Stars: Liam Neeson, Chris Larkin, Mark Tandy, Ian Shaw
Votes: 237
13. Mustang: Journey of Transformation (2009)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short
Lost in time, the Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. But, long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to ... See full summary »
Director: Will Parrinello | Stars: Richard Gere, The Dalai Lama, Luigi Fieni, John Sanday
Votes: 17
14.
Evolution (2002)
Episode:
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
(2002)
Documentary, Drama
Directors: David Espar, Susan K. Lewis, Alastair Reid | Stars: Roger Brierley, Antony Carrick, Jane Cunliffe, Manon Eames
Votes: 42
15.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Asteroids: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(2010)
Documentary
Director: Dan Kendall | Stars: Peter Firth, Richard Binzel, Mark Boslough, Steven R. Chesley
Votes: 18
16.
How We Got to Now (2014– )
Episode:
Glass
(2014)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History
The invention of the mirror gives rise to the Renaissamce; glass lenses reveal worlds within worlds worlds; glass is essential; for communication in the deep ocean; glass lens allows millions to watch a man walk on the moon.
Director: Paul Olding | Star: Steven Johnson
Votes: 29
17. P.O.V. (1988– )
60 min | Documentary
POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Stacey Abrams, Rashida Tlaib, Lucy McBath, Veronica Escobar
Votes: 245
18.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Episode:
The Shuttle
(2008)
TV-G | 49 min | Documentary, History
When We Left Earth examines the Space Shuttle Program. It focuses on the first flight of the Columbia, the Challenger disaster, and the launch of the Hubble Space telescope.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Robert L. Crippen, John Young, Gene Kranz, Story Musgrave
Votes: 63
19.
Real Sex (1990–2009)
Episode:
Real Sex 24: Different Strokes/Dirty Words/Footsies/Bon Appetit
(2000)
TV-MA | Documentary
How to Please a Penis; Punany Poets; Tootsie Roles; Sploshing.
Director: Patti Kaplan | Stars: Lou Paget, Jessica Holter, Lucky 7, Traci Bartlow
Votes: 9
20.
How We Got to Now (2014– )
Episode:
Clean
(2014)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History
Dirty water is transformed with a series of innovations - Chicago builds America's first sewer system, and Jersey City makes water safe for drinking (and bikinis). Manufacturing is transformed with the elimination of dust.
Director: Nic Stacey | Stars: Steven Johnson, Gene Chruszcz, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Terri Adams
Votes: 44
21. Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists (2013)
57 min | Documentary, History, News
In the Altai Republic of Russia and in Northern California, indigenous shamans resist massive government projects that threaten nature and culture.
Directors: Christopher McLeod, Will Parrinello | Stars: Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene
Votes: 9
22.
How We Got to Now (2014– )
Episode:
Time
(2014)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History
With no natural light, submarines re-invent the workday. Frustrated with hundreds of local time zones, a railroad clerk fights to standardize time. Navigation, travel, and technology advances result from unrecognized contributions to time.
Votes: 41
23.
How We Got to Now (2014– )
Episode:
Sound
(2014)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History
30,000 year old traces of a desire to record sound are located in caves, how radio influenced the civil rights movement, the weapon that laid the ground work for today's mobile phones, and the role of the ultrasound in modern medicine.
Star: Steven Johnson
Votes: 27
24.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Curse of the Red Planet
(2016)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Three cosmonauts die mysteriously as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere and NASA needs to know why, a declassified document reveals a CIA plan to use a space disaster as a cover to start ... See full summary »
Directors: Nick Davies, Tod Grimwade, Adam Orr-Ewing, Alex Revill | Stars: Alan Bean, Leroy Chiao, Walter Cunningham, Erik Dellums
Votes: 25
25. The Virtual Revolution (2010– )
60 min | Documentary
Virtual Revolution charts two decades of profound change since the invention of the World Wide Web, weighing up the huge benefits and the unforeseen downsides.
Stars: Aleks Krotoski, Stephen Fry, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee
Votes: 148
26.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Red Storm Rising
(2016)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Two astronauts trapped in the vacuum of space face an agonizing death; the first close up images of Pluto reveal an alien landscape, and residents of Houston struggle to explain videos of ... See full summary »
Stars: Fran Bagenal, Josh Bloom, Brittany Brand, Leroy Chiao
Votes: 22
27. Drain the Oceans (2018– )
TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
By scanning the locations at the bottom of the ocean where sunken ships, treasures and even cities lie, the show tries to answer what they look like, how they got there and if they hide any secrets.
Stars: Craig Sechler, James Delgado, Russell Boulter, Eric Grove
Votes: 725
28. The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Fifteen years after this stunning reinterpretation of Dracula was released (1992), we go behind the scenes and watch master director Francis Coppola reinvent a classic with screenwriter ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Aubry | Stars: Billy Campbell, Francis Ford Coppola, Cary Elwes, Sadie Frost
Votes: 122
29. 95 Worlds and Counting (2000 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Swimming in Neptune's moons, flying in Uranus' moons, jumping in Mars' moons, living in Jupiter's moons - welcome to the future of mankind, where you'll see the next worlds to discover.
Director: Marc Etkind | Stars: John Lithgow, Jeffrey Kargel, Ashley Davies, Rosaly Lopes
Votes: 73
30. The Next List (2011– )
30 min | News
The Next List is a 30-minute weekly show on CNN. It airs every Saturday at 2:30pm EST. Every week, the show profiles one person who has been identified as an innovative and creative thinker... See full summary »
Stars: Sanjay Gupta, Cameron Carpenter, Yosef Abramowitz, Susan Silverman
Votes: 14
31.
Drain the Oceans (2018– )
Episode:
Hollywood
(2021)
TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
From a buried film set to a WW1 Navy ship and old fishing barge, we discover the role these ruins played in Hollywood movie-making history.
Director: Adam Warner | Stars: Kerry Shale, Kelvin Jones, Jonathan Kuntz, M. Colleen Hamilton
Votes: 21
32. Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down (2022)
PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Looking at the former congresswoman's courage and perseverance in the aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and with a language impairment, aphasia.
Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West | Stars: Barack Obama, Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly, Ron Barber
Votes: 252
33. Soldiers of Conscience (2007)
86 min | Documentary, War
A brave and balanced look at the choice a soldier makes when he finally must pull the trigger.
Directors: Catherine Ryan, Gary Weimberg | Stars: Kevin Benderman, Joshua Casteel, Peter Coyote, Aidan Delgado
Votes: 99
34.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Iceman Reborn
(2016)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary
Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is the oldest human mummy on Earth. Now, newly discovered evidence sheds light not only on this mysterious ancient man, but on the dawn of civilization in Europe.
Director: Bonnie Brennan | Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Alexandra Adams Sockell, Carlos Bustamante, Herlien Declerck
Votes: 105
35. Undercover History (1997– )
52 min | Documentary, History
Stars: John Benjamin Hickey, Tim Thunderhorse Halpin, Will Rosser, Jordan Romano
Votes: 31
36. Elemental (2012)
TV-G | 92 min | Documentary, News
Elemental follows three outsiders who are obsessed by nature and driven by a deep desire to change the status quo. Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, mounts a ... See full summary »
Directors: Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee | Stars: Chief Alan Adam, Francesca Bertone, Kelsey Chapman, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Votes: 34
37. The UnXplained (2019– )
TV-14 | Documentary
The show will explore the facts behind the world's most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries.
Stars: William Shatner, Michio Kaku, Jonathan Young, Tok Thompson
Votes: 1,884
38.
The UnXplained (2019– )
Episode:
Mysteries of Mars
(2021)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
For centuries. humanity has been fixated on Mars--the glowing red orb in the night sky. As a new era of exploration of the Red Planet begins. we are on the cusp of finally solving the Red ... See full summary »
Stars: William Shatner, Kirsten Siebach, Steven Benner, Robert Schoch
Votes: 53
39. Inside (2007– )
Documentary
National Geographic goes inside and undercover to reveal the secrets and inner-workings of a myriad of topics.
Stars: Nicholas Schatzki, David Jeremiah, Brett Beyer, John Benjamin Hickey
Votes: 42
40. West Is West (1989)
80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Handsome and broke, Vikram arrives from Bombay to the US to find his college plans have fallen through. Exploring exotic San Francisco, he discovers and falls for Sue, a feisty bohemian artist.
Director: David Rathod | Stars: Ashutosh Gowariker, Heidi Carpenter, Pearl Padamsee, Rex Delgado
Votes: 87
41.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Nazis on the Moon
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
A Russian probe discovers something has disturbed the lunar soil before the US or the USSR got there. Did Nazis get there first? Have scientists detected a laser signal from a planet ... See full summary »
Directors: Ian Levison, Simon Martin, Nick Patterson, Paul Olding | Stars: Vassilis Angelopolous, James F. Bell, Justin Berk, Ragbir Bhathal
Votes: 22
42.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Spacewalk of Doom
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
An astronaut on a spacewalk begins to drown. How could this terrifying event happen? Have NASA scientists discovered an asteroid that's been converted into a spacecraft? What are the ... See full summary »
Directors: Ian Levison, Simon Martin, Nick Patterson, Paul Olding | Stars: Craig Agnor, Kevin H. Baines, James F. Bell, Bill Birnes
Votes: 24
43.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Did We Nuke Jupiter?
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Could NASA really be responsible for a nuclear explosion on Jupiter? Could new evidence finally reveal the truth behind the mystery of the iconic face on Mars? What unknown force crashed a ... See full summary »
Directors: Ian Levison, Simon Martin, Nick Patterson, Paul Olding | Stars: Kevin H. Baines, Alan Bean, James F. Bell, Bill Birnes
Votes: 25
44.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Revenge of the Fireflies
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Something in space is attacking the brains of our astronauts. What is it? Should NASA be worried about the sudden appearance of so-called space fireflies? Who could be responsible for the bizarre glowing spiral in the skies over Norway?
Directors: Ian Levison, Simon Martin, Nick Patterson, Paul Olding | Stars: James F. Bell, Bill Birnes, Mike Capps, Leroy Chiao
Votes: 22
45.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Lethal Weapons
(2015)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
How did pictures from the Hubble telescope make the comet of the century look like an alien spacecraft? Has earth already been invaded by alien organisms? What mysterious force is smashing a near-earth asteroid to pieces?
Directors: Ian Levison, Simon Martin, Nick Patterson, Paul Olding | Stars: Kevin H. Baines, Bill Birnes, David Brin, Mike Capps
Votes: 19
46.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Ghosts on a Comet
(2016)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
When a Chinese moon rover breaks down, a NASA scientist points to a mysterious material that seemed to sabotage the Apollo missions, decades earlier. The Rosetta spacecraft finds a comet that appears to be singing.
Stars: Fran Bagenal, Andrew Chaikin, Leroy Chiao, Walter Cunningham
Votes: 20
47.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Attack of the Thunderballs
(2016)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Astronauts are evacuated when a mystery object is discovered hurtling towards the ISS, a NASA secret agent goes undercover to recover missing moon rocks and scientists struggle to find ... See full summary »
Directors: Nick Davies, Tod Grimwade, Adam Orr-Ewing, Alex Revill | Stars: Fran Bagenal, Bill Birnes, Ken Bowersox, Leroy Chiao
Votes: 20
48.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Life in Hell
(2015)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
A UFO crashes in Pennsylvania. Was it a secret Soviet satellite -- or something far more dangerous? On Mercury, NASA finds the impossible: frozen water. A strange object causes a ... See full summary »
Directors: Russell Eatough, Daniel Edwards, Ryan Gaffney, Ian Levison, Paul Olding | Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Kevin H. Baines, Alan Bean, Bill Birnes
Votes: 20
49.
NASA's Unexplained Files (2012– )
Episode:
Return of the Moon Bugs
(2016)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary
Something living is brought back from the moon, and an artificial object is headed towards Earth.
Directors: Nick Davies, Tod Grimwade, Adam Orr-Ewing, Alex Revill | Stars: Kevin H. Baines, Alan Bean, James F. Bell, Bill Birnes
Votes: 24
50. Real Sex (1990–2009)
TV-MA | Documentary
Documentary series that explores sex in the '90s. Each episode has several segments about current trends in sexuality as well as street interviews with common people.
Stars: Susan Block, Barbara Carrellas, Annie Sprinkle, Samantha Jones
Votes: 405