Documentary

Filmmaker Brett Morgan is trying to give us a deeper understanding of both David Bowie and his music this Fall with Moonage Daydream, a project that's part documentary, part exploration, and part pure celebration of one of music's most creative and chameleon-like artists.

Thanksgiving weekend provided a massive gift for Beatles fans as director Peter Jackson unveiled The Beatles: Get Back, his epic 8-hour docuseries about the recording sessions that culminated in the original Let It Be album and film released in 1970. With access to 150 hours of unheard audio and 60 hours of unseen footage, Jackson almost completely re-writes conventional wisdom about the breakup of the band and opens an intimate window into the group's relationships, creative process, and late '60s British pop culture.

Part reality TV and part historical documentary, Netflix’s Churchill’s Secret Agents will tick all the boxes for you. Come for the World War II history and stay for the exploding rats!

It’s finally here—a show that combines the setting and community feel of All Creatures Great and Small, the grit and team spirit of Home Fires, a female curate who’ll remind you irresistibly of The Vicar of Dibley, and the baking skills of The Great British Baking Show. AcornTV's Big Bread Experiment is a joy.

Acorn TV's The Yorkshire Vet is heartwarming, funny, and moving. Let's take a deeper look at this highly popular series which follows the James Herriot tradition. 

If you’ve ever daydreamed about sitting down for a heartfelt chat and a cup of tea with a few of Britain’s most legendary living actresses, Tea with the Dames is your dream come true.

The subjects of this documentary are Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith. Prompted by questions asked off-screen by director Roger Michell, the dames talk candidly and sometimes irreverently about their professional experiences as well as their more personal thoughts on aging and family. What stands out most is the genuine affection and friendship between these women who have shared stages, sets and the unusual experience of living most of their lives in the spotlight

As Season 3 of the popular period drama kicks off, PBS airs a companion piece to Victoria, focused on exploring her royal marriage, in Victoria & Albert: The Wedding.

Travel documentaries need not be boring when you can tour the world in the company of some of the UK's wittiest, silliest tourists.

From a family bonding gap year trip with Jack Whitehall to fulfilling a lifelong dream of riding the open road with Billy Connolly. From fitting in as many quirky cultural attractions as one can into a mini-break with Richard Ayoade to forcing a reluctant traveller like Karl Pilkington to appreciate the world's wonders, we find that comedy and travel make the hilarious companions. 

From blood to ballistics to fingerprints, Sherlock Holmes was 120 years ahead of his time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective is still infamous today for the rigorous nature of his investigative methods, protecting crime scenes from contamination, looking for minute traces of evidence and searching for what the eye couldn’t see.

Two-hour documentary How Sherlock Changed the World is set to premiere on this December and will explore the real-world impact of history’s most famous fictional detective, including his effect on the continued development of forensic and investigative procedures, even during the present day. The film will feature noted forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee, who is often referred to as something of a modern-day Holmes himself.