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Best Documentary TV Series of the 1990s

Top 500 most popular Documentary series that started in the 1990s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Leute heute

★ 3.7
101 747 1997–2023
Documentary · Family · News

The Crimean War

★ 7.6
100 3 1997–1997
Documentary · History · War

Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen

★ 7.5
99 6 1996–1996
Documentary · History

60 Minutes II

★ 7.1
99 306 1999–2005
Documentary · News

The Rat Pack

★ 8.0
99 1999–present
Documentary · Music

The Dinosaurs!

★ 8.6
99 4 1992–present
Documentary

Extreme Machines

★ 7.0
96 6 1998–1999
Documentary

This Is Modern Art

★ 8.0
96 6 1999–1999
Documentary

Degrassi Talks

★ 7.3
96 6 1992–1992
Documentary

Explosiv - Das Magazin

★ 3.6
96 176 1992–present
Documentary · News · Talk-Show

Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century

★ 8.2
95 78 1992–2000
Crime · Documentary · History

A Glorious Accident

★ 8.9
95 7 1993–present
Documentary

Rock & Roll

★ 8.5
94 10 1995–present
Documentary · Music

Lords of the Mafia

★ 7.7
93 16 1999–2000
Crime · Documentary · History

Naked News

★ 7.2
92 4 1995–present
Documentary

America's Castles

★ 8.7
92 64 1994–1999
Documentary

Better Homes and Gardens

★ 5.8
90 608 1995–present
Documentary · Reality-TV

Scene by Scene

★ 6.9
90 24 1997–2003
Documentary · Talk-Show

Ghost Stories

★ 7.3
87 6 1997–present
Documentary · Drama · Fantasy

Hollywood U.K. British Cinema in the Sixties

★ 8.2
86 5 1993–present
Documentary

Extra - Das RTL Magazin

★ 7.4
86 48 1994–present
Documentary · News · Reality-TV

Dokument inifrån

★ 7.4
85 198 1998–present
Documentary

Cadillac Desert

★ 8.8
84 5 1997–present
Documentary · History

A-Z of Horror

★ 7.8
84 4 1997–1997
Documentary · Horror
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