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Best Documentary TV Series of the 2020s

Top 500 most popular Documentary series that started in the 2020s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

99

★ 8.6
2K 3 2024–2024
Documentary · Sport

Undertaker: The Last Ride

★ 8.7
2K 6 2020–2020
Documentary · Sport

The Mortician

★ 7.1
2K 3 2025–2025
Crime · Documentary

Worst Neighbor Ever

★ 7.1
2K 4 2026–2026
Documentary

Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified

★ 5.7
2K 6 2021–present
Documentary

The Last Movie Stars

★ 8.0
2K 6 2022–2022
Documentary

Headspace Guide to Meditation

★ 8.3
2K 8 2021–2021
Animation · Documentary

Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary

★ 8.6
2K 5 2021–2021
Biography · Documentary · Music

Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything

★ 7.5
2K 6 2020–2020
Comedy · Documentary

Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers

★ 8.2
2K 10 2022–2022
Documentary · History · Sport

The U.S. and the Holocaust

★ 8.7
2K 3 2022–2022
Documentary · History

The Business of Drugs

★ 7.2
2K 6 2020–2020
Documentary

Shaq

★ 7.7
2K 4 2022–2022
Biography · Documentary · Sport

Plandemic

★ 6.0
2K 2 2020–present
Biography · Crime · Documentary

A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read

★ 6.8
2K 5 2025–2025
Crime · Documentary

Six Schizophrenic Brothers

★ 7.1
2K 5 2024–2024
Documentary

The Predator of Seville

★ 6.5
2K 3 2026–2026
Crime · Documentary

Who Killed Robert Wone?

★ 7.1
2K 2 2023–2023
Crime · Documentary

Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies

★ 3.8
2K 3 2022–2022
Crime · Documentary

Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty

★ 7.2
2K 3 2022–2022
Biography · Crime · Documentary

Dear Mama

★ 8.6
2K 5 2022–2023
Biography · Documentary · Music

Where Is Marta?

★ 6.8
2K 3 2021–2021
Crime · Documentary · Mystery

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil

★ 7.7
2K 4 2021–2021
Biography · Documentary · Music

The Motive

★ 5.3
2K 4 2020–2021
Crime · Documentary · Mystery
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