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Best Documentary TV Series of the 2020s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Billy Joel: And So It Goes

★ 8.6
3K 2 2025–2025
Biography · Documentary · Music

Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham

★ 8.4
3K 12 2021–2023
Comedy · Documentary · Reality-TV

Lenox Hill

★ 8.6
3K 9 2020–2020
Biography · Documentary

The Green Planet

★ 9.1
3K 5 2022–2022
Documentary · Family

The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph

★ 6.4
3K 3 2024–2024
Crime · Documentary

The Hunt for Veerappan

★ 7.9
3K 4 2023–2023
Biography · Crime · Documentary

Heart of Invictus

★ 5.4
3K 5 2023–2023
Documentary · Sport

Chimp Crazy

★ 7.3
3K 4 2024–2024
Crime · Documentary

World's Most Wanted

★ 7.1
3K 5 2020–2020
Crime · Documentary

Money, Explained

★ 7.0
3K 5 2021–2021
Documentary

Turning Point: The Vietnam War

★ 7.9
3K 5 2025–2025
Documentary · History · War

Outcry

★ 8.2
3K 5 2020–2020
Crime · Documentary

Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown

★ 7.5
3K 3 2024–2024
Crime · Documentary · History

The American Revolution

★ 8.5
3K 6 2025–2025
Documentary · History

Bad Sport

★ 7.3
3K 6 2021–2021
Crime · Documentary · Mystery

Teen Torture, Inc.

★ 7.0
3K 3 2024–2024
Crime · Documentary

The Andy Warhol Diaries

★ 7.6
3K 6 2022–2022
Biography · Documentary

Who Killed Jill Dando?

★ 6.3
3K 3 2023–2023
Crime · Documentary · History

Tiny World

★ 8.8
3K 12 2020–present
Documentary

Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime

★ 5.9
3K 4 2021–2021
Biography · Crime · Documentary

The Great Escapists

★ 5.6
3K 6 2021–2021
Adventure · Comedy · Documentary

Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?

★ 7.0
3K 4 2020–2020
Crime · Documentary · Mystery

Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer

★ 7.7
3K 3 2024–2024
Crime · Documentary

Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi

★ 6.1
3K 3 2022–2022
Crime · Documentary · History
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