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Documentary TV series

The highest-rated Documentary series and miniseries, ranked from IMDb episode data across 85,025 rated episodes.

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  1. Hope on the Street 2024- / 6 rated episodes / 2,547 episode votes 9.4
  2. Are You Sure?! 2024-2025 / 16 rated episodes / 31,497 episode votes 9.3
  3. Roadfood 2021- / 13 rated episodes / 6,568 episode votes 9.2
  4. 9/11: One Day in America 2021-2021 / 6 rated episodes / 2,324 episode votes 9.2
  5. The Last Dance 2020-2020 / 10 rated episodes / 39,873 episode votes 9.1
  6. Tip to Tip 2025-2026 / 31 rated episodes / 1,997 episode votes 9.1
  7. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey 2014-2014 / 13 rated episodes / 28,744 episode votes 9.0
  8. Planet Earth II 2016-2016 / 6 rated episodes / 26,107 episode votes 9.0
  9. OverSimplified 2016-2025 / 32 rated episodes / 1,801 episode votes 9.0
  10. The Green Planet 2022-2022 / 5 rated episodes / 1,541 episode votes 9.0
  11. The Rehearsal 2022- / 12 rated episodes / 31,377 episode votes 8.9
  12. Blue Planet II 2017-2017 / 7 rated episodes / 8,850 episode votes 8.9
  13. Cosmos 1980-1980 / 13 rated episodes / 8,544 episode votes 8.9
  14. Seven Worlds One Planet 2019-2020 / 8 rated episodes / 3,827 episode votes 8.9
  15. The Beatles Anthology 1995-1996 / 9 rated episodes / 3,017 episode votes 8.9
  16. The Living Planet 1984-1984 / 12 rated episodes / 1,822 episode votes 8.9
  17. McCartney 3,2,1 2021-2021 / 6 rated episodes / 1,345 episode votes 8.9
  18. Planet Earth 2006-2006 / 11 rated episodes / 35,961 episode votes 8.8
  19. Rise of Empires: Ottoman 2020-2022 / 12 rated episodes / 27,414 episode votes 8.8
  20. Our Planet 2019-2023 / 12 rated episodes / 19,880 episode votes 8.8
  21. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath 2016-2019 / 35 rated episodes / 4,948 episode votes 8.8
  22. Dynasties 2018-2022 / 7 rated episodes / 2,829 episode votes 8.8
  23. Taylor Swift: The End of an Era 2025-2025 / 6 rated episodes / 2,293 episode votes 8.8
  24. The Hunt 2015-2015 / 7 rated episodes / 1,919 episode votes 8.8
  25. The Imagineering Story 2019-2019 / 6 rated episodes / 1,791 episode votes 8.8
  26. Clarkson's Farm 2021- / 37 rated episodes / 44,047 episode votes 8.7
  27. Cosmos: Possible Worlds 2020-2020 / 13 rated episodes / 11,110 episode votes 8.7
  28. The Vietnam War 2017-2017 / 10 rated episodes / 8,667 episode votes 8.7
  29. Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham 2021-2023 / 12 rated episodes / 5,231 episode votes 8.7
  30. Planet Earth III 2023-2024 / 9 rated episodes / 3,813 episode votes 8.7
  31. On Patrol: Live 2022- / 180 rated episodes / 1,827 episode votes 8.7
  32. A Perfect Planet 2021-2021 / 6 rated episodes / 1,801 episode votes 8.7
  33. Country Music 2019-2019 / 8 rated episodes / 1,684 episode votes 8.7
  34. The Planets 2019-2019 / 5 rated episodes / 1,637 episode votes 8.7
  35. While the Rest of Us Die: Secrets of America's Shadow Government 2020- / 14 rated episodes / 1,241 episode votes 8.7
  36. Lenox Hill 2020-2020 / 9 rated episodes / 1,193 episode votes 8.7
  37. Life on Earth 1979-1979 / 13 rated episodes / 1,179 episode votes 8.7
  38. Nathan for You 2013-2017 / 32 rated episodes / 41,048 episode votes 8.6
  39. The World at War 1973-1974 / 26 rated episodes / 13,453 episode votes 8.6
  40. The Civil War 1990-1990 / 9 rated episodes / 4,092 episode votes 8.6
  41. Apocalypse: The Second World War 2009-2009 / 6 rated episodes / 2,761 episode votes 8.6
  42. Baseball 1994-2010 / 11 rated episodes / 2,252 episode votes 8.6
  43. Tiny World 2020- / 12 rated episodes / 2,126 episode votes 8.6
  44. Frozen Planet II 2022-2023 / 7 rated episodes / 1,668 episode votes 8.6
  45. The War 2007-2007 / 7 rated episodes / 1,558 episode votes 8.6
  46. The Dynasty: New England Patriots 2024-2024 / 10 rated episodes / 1,497 episode votes 8.6
  47. Undertaker: The Last Ride 2020-2020 / 6 rated episodes / 1,066 episode votes 8.6
  48. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia 2011- / 20 rated episodes / 1,039 episode votes 8.6
  49. Madventures 2002- / 45 rated episodes / 1,027 episode votes 8.6
  50. How to with John Wilson 2020-2023 / 18 rated episodes / 11,479 episode votes 8.5

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30 for 30 Biography, Documentary, and History / 2009- Formula 1: Drive to Survive Documentary and Sport / 2019- Untold Biography, Crime, and Documentary / 2021- American Masters Biography and Documentary / 1985- Clarkson's Farm Comedy, Documentary, and Reality-TV / 2021- Biography Biography and Documentary / 1987- Forensic Files Crime and Documentary / 1996-2011 Queen Cleopatra Documentary, Drama, and History / 2023-2023 MythBusters Documentary, Mystery, and Reality-TV / 2003-2018 Nathan for You Comedy and Documentary / 2013-2017 The Last Dance Biography, Documentary, and History / 2020-2020 Nova Documentary / 1974-