Television documentaries

Alistair Cooke's America is a 13-part television series about the United States and its history, written and presented by Alistair Cooke and first broadcast in both Britain (by the BBC) and the US in 1973. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alistair Cooke's America"

Holidays in the Danger Zone: America Was Here is a four part BBC4 series on countries invaded by America presented by Ben Anderson. ...more on Wikipedia about "America Was Here"

Anatomy of a Scene is a television series produced by and aired regularly on Sundance Channel since 2001. As a tagline for the series notes, each 30-minute episode "dissects the art of filmmaking" of a scene from a specific film, often a film previously showcased at a Sundance Film Festival. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatomy of a Scene"

Baseball was an Emmy Award-winning 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of baseball. It was broadcast on PBS. It was Burns' ninth documentary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baseball (documentary)"

Battlefield Britain was a 2004 BBC television documentary series about famous battles in the history of Great Britain. It was presented by Peter Snow and his son, military historian Dan Snow. There were eight 60-minute episodes made, each focusing on a different battle. The episodes featured "interviews" with soldiers from both sides, re-enactments of the battles and computer generated scenes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battlefield Britain"

Bloody Britain is a British history documentary, presented by TV comedian Rory McGrath and produced by Sophie Theunissen for the Discovery Channel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bloody Britain"

Civilisation (full title, Civilisation: A Personal View) was a popular TV series outlining the history of Western society produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC Two. Kenneth Clark wrote and presented the series and also wrote the book Civilisation: A Personal View published in 1970. ...more on Wikipedia about "Civilisation (television series)"

CNN Presents is a documentary-style news presentation program shown on CNN in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "CNN Presents"

Coast is a BBC documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2005. It covers various subjects relating to both the natural and social history of the British coastline. The series is a collaboration between the Open University and the BBC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coast (television)"

Connections was a ten-episode documentary television series created by science historian James Burke in 1978. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention. Each episode demonstrates how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events have linked together over the centuries to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The show jumps between various recreated scenes of discovery, and is presented with a light tongue-in-cheek tone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Connections (TV series)"

Death of a Princess is a 1979 docudrama about a young Saudi princess and her lover who had been publicly executed for adultery, based on the true story of Princess Misha'al. ...more on Wikipedia about "Death of a Princess"

The Disinformation Company is a multimedia company that specializes in presenting information of a controversial, subversive, extreme, or just plain unusual nature. The company publishes a number of books and DVDs, as well as a web site ( disinfo.com ) about conspiracies, subculture, politics, and other topics the traditional media don't often cover. In 2002, the company produced Disinformation, a documentary series that lasted only four episodes. (Some sources list this series with the alternate title, Disinfo Nation) ...more on Wikipedia about "Disinfo"

A docudrama or docu-drama is a type of work (usually a film or television show) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing set pieces to take dramatic liberty with events. ...more on Wikipedia about "Docudrama"

A drama documentary is a relatively new form of drama. It bears many similarities to a mockumentary. However, whereas these tend to be parodies, drama documentaries usually have a more serious standing. They are often used to analyze current events and issues, in a similar way that businesses use scenario planning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drama documentary"

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) is a documentary series about the American Civil Rights Movement. It originally aired on PBS in early 1987 with six initial parts; eight more parts were broadcast in 1990 as Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads (1965-1985), for a total of fourteen episodes. It uses archival footage to record the growth of the American Civil Rights Movement, with special focus on the ordinary people who affected the change. It was produced by Henry Hampton at Blackside Inc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eyes on the Prize"

Family Business (referred to as Porn: A Family Business in the UK) is an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focuses on the pornography industry and the life of Adam Glasser, a 40-something reality porn star and video director who uses the nom de plume Seymore Butts. Also featured on the series are his mother, Lila Glasser, and his 60-year-old cousin, Stevie Glasser, both of whom help Adam run the eponymous "family business" of the series, which in this case is a successful porn video production and distribution house in the San Fernando Valley. ...more on Wikipedia about "Family Business (TV series)"

Fíorscéal is an Irish language documentary series produced for Irish language television channel TG4 (previously Teilifís na Gaeilge) on aspects of world current affairs and other topics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fíorscéal"

Imagine is a wide ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003. Hosted and executive produced by Alan Yentob the show now spans 6 series. Episodes have been directed by Geoff Wonfor, Lucy Blakstead and Roger Parsons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imagine (BBC)"

Inside 9/11 is a television documentary about the 9/11 attacks. It originally aired in two parts on the National Geographic Channel on August 21 and August 22, 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inside 9/11"

JAZZ: A Film By Ken Burns is the last documentary in a trilogy by Ken Burns about American Life. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001. The first documentary in the trilogy was The Civil War, in 1990, and the second was Baseball in 1994. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jazz (documentary)"

John Safran vs God is an 8 part television documentary series by John Safran which was broadcast on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) of Australia in 2004. Described in a media release as "[John Safran's] most audacious project yet". Despite being an irreverent look at world religions and theology in general, Safran managed to be both informative and entertaining, without being outright offensive. It had a much more serious tone than Safran's previous work Music Jamboree. The show was released by Ghost of Your Ex-Boyfriend Productions and SBS Independent, it was directed by Craig Melville and produced by Selin Yaman. The series won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Comedy Series. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Safran vs God"

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is a tv show, more specifically a documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses of things they wouldn't normally come into contact with. In most cases this means interviewing people with extreme beliefs of some kind, or just generally belonging to subcultures not known to exist by most or just frowned upon. It was first shown in the UK on BBC2. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends"

People's Century is a television documentary series examining the 20th century. It was a joint production of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom and Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. First shown on BBC in 1995, the series comprises 26 parts, each spanning one hour dealing with the major socio-economic, political, and cultural movements that shaped the 20th century. The documentary won the International Emmy Award among many other awards. ...more on Wikipedia about "People's Century"

Holidays in the Danger Zone: Places That Don't Exist is a five-part BBC Four series on breakaway states and unrecognised nations, devised, written and presented by Simon Reeve. ...more on Wikipedia about "Places That Don't Exist"

Quest for King Arthur is a History Channel production used as a plug for the Jerry Bruckheimer production of King Arthur. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quest for King Arthur" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia

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