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Best Documentary TV Series of the 2010s

Top 500 most popular Documentary series that started in the 2010s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks

★ 8.0
1K 6 2018–2018
Documentary · Reality-TV · Sport

Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation

★ 7.5
1K 14 2019–present
Documentary · History · Sci-Fi

Nightmare Next Door

★ 7.0
1K 120 2011–present
Crime · Documentary

The 2000s

★ 8.0
1K 7 2018–2018
Documentary

Inside the Mossad

★ 7.5
1K 4 2017–2017
Documentary

Everything and Nothing

★ 8.5
1K 2 2011–2011
Documentary

Age of Tanks

★ 7.3
1K 4 2017–2017
Documentary · History

James May's Cars of the People

★ 8.4
1K 6 2014–2016
Documentary

Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

★ 7.6
1K 3 2016–2016
Documentary · History

Genius of the Modern World

★ 7.6
1K 3 2016–2016
Biography · Documentary · History

Kingdom of Plants 3D

★ 8.6
1K 4 2012–2012
Documentary

North Korea: Michael Palin's Journey

★ 8.0
1K 2 2018–2018
Documentary

Pavyon

★ 7.3
1K 13 2019–2026
Documentary

Naked and Marooned with Ed Stafford

★ 8.1
1K 4 2013–present
Documentary

Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless

★ 8.4
1K 3 2010–2010
Documentary · Music

Derren Brown: Apocalypse

★ 7.8
1K 2 2012–2012
Documentary · Horror · Mystery

O Teatro das Tesouras

★ 8.3
1K 8 2018–2022
Documentary · History

Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates

★ 8.5
1K 2 2013–2013
Documentary

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

★ 1.8
1K 18 2013–present
Documentary

Hostile Planet

★ 8.2
1K 6 2019–2019
Documentary

Web of Lies

★ 7.8
1K 75 2014–2021
Crime · Documentary

James May's Man Lab

★ 7.8
1K 13 2010–present
Documentary

Daughters of Destiny

★ 8.6
1K 4 2017–present
Documentary

Srpski junaci srednjeg veka

★ 8.2
1K 30 2017–2023
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