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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)

Big Cats

★ 8.5
808 3 2018–2018
Documentary

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

★ 8.1
807 3 2013–2013
Documentary · History

American Ripper

★ 6.2
806 8 2017–2017
Documentary · History · Mystery

Secrets of the Six Wives

★ 8.1
805 3 2016–2016
Biography · Documentary · Drama

Internet Historian

★ 8.8
802 47 2017–present
Comedy · Documentary · History

Superhumans

★ 7.3
798 32 2010–2014
Documentary

Jodi Arias: An American Murder Mystery

★ 6.9
796 3 2018–2018
Crime · Documentary

How the States Got Their Shapes

★ 8.2
793 29 2011–2012
Adventure · Documentary · History

Fake or Fortune

★ 8.6
791 57 2010–present
Documentary · Mystery

All or Nothing: The Carolina Panthers

★ 7.8
790 8 2019–2019
Documentary · Sport

Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

★ 8.7
789 133 2013–present
Adventure · Documentary

Great Barrier Reef

★ 8.3
788 3 2012–2012
Documentary

The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

★ 7.8
788 18 2018–present
Adventure · Comedy · Documentary

Jay Leno's Garage

★ 7.3
787 89 2015–2022
Documentary

Les Grands Mythes

★ 8.6
780 40 2014–2021
Animation · Documentary · Fantasy

A Football Life

★ 8.7
776 141 2011–present
Biography · Documentary · Sport

James May: The Reassembler

★ 8.3
770 8 2016–present
Documentary

Follow This

★ 5.2
766 20 2018–2018
Documentary

Too Cute!

★ 8.6
766 55 2011–present
Documentary

72 Dangerous Animals - Asia

★ 6.5
765 12 2018–present
Documentary

Basketball or Nothing

★ 7.3
763 6 2019–2019
Documentary · Sport

Ghost Brothers

★ 6.5
761 15 2016–2017
Documentary

Abandoned

★ 8.4
757 10 2016–2016
Documentary

Curiosity

★ 7.7
756 31 2011–2014
Documentary
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