1. The Business of Drugs
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
It has an average vote of 6.983 on TMDB.
2. D-Day: The Last Heroes
Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic military operations in history.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
3. Bombing War: From Guernica to Hiroshima
A look at the military strategy of aerial bombardment and its effect on 20th century wars, and the future of warfare.
4. Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera
For centuries in western culture, opera has been the greatest show on earth. Historian Lucy Worsley explores how history and opera go hand in hand. She visits the great European cities where some of the most famous operas were written, tells the stories of the colourful characters who composed them, and shows how they reflected the turbulent times they were composed in and the lives, hopes and fears of the people who lived in them. Whilst Lucy visits the cities and European opera houses, Antonio Pappano, music director of London's Royal Opera, helps us understand some of those operas' greatest musical moments.
5. Hostages
On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. What was planned as a 48-hour sit-in to protest American imperialism, ballooned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days. With never-before-seen archival footage and revelatory new interviews with the American hostages and Iranian hostage-takers alike, the series is a gripping chronicle of one of the most dramatic international deadlocks in American history, a deep dive into the geo-political history that led to the crisis, and an exploration of the political fallout that reverberates today.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
6. Shadowland
Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across the country to uncover the real reasons Americans can’t agree on what’s true and what’s not.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
7. Fear City: New York vs The Mafia
New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
8. The Keepers
This docuseries examines the decades-old murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik and its suspected link to a priest accused of abuse.
It has an average vote of 7.471 on TMDB.
9. Escaping Twin Flames
A couple built a spiritual business to help people find true love. Now, former followers are sharing their disturbing practices in this docuseries.
It has an average vote of 6.474 on TMDB.
10. Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands
Japan's landscapes range from snowy mountains to subtropical warmth. They are full of wildlife - and animals' and people's lives often cross as they adapt to these extremes.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
11. Bobby Kennedy for President
Historic footage and leading voices of the era examine the "Bobby Phenomenon" of the 1960s and the legacy of the man who helped redefine the country.
It has an average vote of 7.706 on TMDB.
12. Get Gotti
Murder. Extortion. Drug smuggling. Racketeering. The charges are mounting against John Gotti — but will any of them stick to the "Teflon Don"? Told from both sides of the law, this docuseries from the makers of "Fear City" follows the FBI's battle to bring down infamous mob boss.
It has an average vote of 7.529 on TMDB.
13. The Lincoln Project
A five-part docu-series following a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project. The fastest-growing super PAC in America takes on the task of “saving democracy” and defeating their own party’s sitting president, Donald Trump. While working to accomplish their stated goal of “defeating Trumpism,” the group is shaken by internal upheaval, a sexual harassment scandal, and a tidal wave of negative press.
14. 11 Minutes
A four-part documentary that takes viewers inside the heart-stopping stories of terror and survival experienced by those who were at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
15. Playing Shakespeare
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
16. Dolphins: Spy in the Pod
The award-winning team behind Penguins - Spy in the Huddle use hidden cameras to go into the heart of the dolphins' world, offering the chance to encounter dolphins up-close.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
17. A Kalahari Family
A five-part series documenting 50 years in the lives of the Ju/'hoansi of southern Africa, from 1951 to 2000. These once independent hunter-gatherers experience dispossession, confinement to a homeland, and the chaos of war.
18. The Genius of Mozart
Looks at Mozart's extraordinary short life and revolutionary music through a distinctive mix of costume drama and documentary.
19. I Remember Harlem
William Miles’s landmark epic documents the early settlement of the Village of Harlem in the 17th century to the specter of urban renewal and redevelopment in the 1970s. The film chronicles the centuries of change and political and artistic expression that has made this complex hamlet the capital of urban America.
20. The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
Men from all over the world have left their pasts to start a new life as elite soldiers in the French Foreign Legion.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
