Documentary Series on Disney Plus - Page 7
Life Below Zero: Next Generation
2020
star 8.8Individuals who have recently left their traditional lifestyle behind face a challenging new world off the grid in the wilds of Alaska.Animal Fight Night
2013
Animal Fight Night
2013
star 6.7Featuring battles between some of the biggest and baddest fighters of the animal kingdom and some of the most surprising, revealing the extraordinary motivations and strategies that fuel each incredible brawl.Beyond Scared Straight
2011
star 7.6Observing programs for troubled teens in which inmates reveal the realities of prison life in the hope of deterring them from a life of crime.Secrets of the Penguins
2025
star 7.2Over two extraordinary years, National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory discovered never-before-filmed secret traditions, surprising intelligence and close-knit societies of penguins. This astonishing series reveals they are more like us than we ever dreamed, from their powerful friendships to the courageous risk-takers using ingenuity and innovation in some of the world's most extreme places.Stan Lee's Superhumans
2010
star 6.7Stan Lee's Superhumans is a television series that debuted August 5, 2010 on History. It is hosted by comic book superhero creator Stan Lee and follows contortionist Daniel Browning Smith, "the most flexible man in the world", as he searches the globe for real-life superhumans – people with extraordinary physical or mental abilities. Many of the segments are fraudulenty manipulated and these appear side by side with other segments that are valid. For example, one segment shows a person applying an electric drill to their body[ after it is used to drill a hole in wood], except the direction of rotation of the drill is fraudulently reversed in the process.Growing Up
2022
Growing Up
2022
star 6.7An innovative hybrid docu-series that explores the challenges, joys and complexities of adolescence through ten compelling coming-of-age stories. Growing Up draws on storytelling, experimentation and documentary to let 18- to 21-year-olds tell their stories.Incredible Animal Journeys
2023
star 9.2This is a planet on the move - animals in every landscape are embarking on epic migrations in search of food, shelter, and love.Phrogging: Hider in My House
2022
star 7.3Explores the phenomenon of phrogging – people secretly living inside someone else’s home and features two first-hand accounts of survivors sharing the most skin-crawling, twisted and truly terrifying stories imaginable. Along with interviews and key archive materials, cinematic recreations bring the clues and confrontations to life.Breaking Amish
2012
Breaking Amish
2012
star 5.9Temptations abound as a group of young Amish explore life beyond their Amish culture. Ultimately, they will make the biggest decision of their lives – to remain Amish/Mennonite or become English and face the consequences of being shunned by their family and friends.Origins: The Journey of Humankind
2017
star 6.5Hosted by Jason Silva, Origins: The Journey of Humankind rewinds all the way back to the beginning and traces the innovations that made us modern.Death in the Dorms
2023
Death in the Dorms
2023
star 6.7These are the stories of the kind of danger that no college student is ever prepared for: a life cut short just when it was getting started, not by accident but by foul play. Each procedural episode of “Death in the Dorms” will examine a different murder of a college student in the U.S.My Haunted House
2013
My Haunted House
2013
star 6.9The shocking eyewitness accounts of terrified people whose dream homes have become nightmares are brought to life in vivid, blood-curdling style on "My Haunted House". Told via gripping first person interviews and strikingly crafted re-enactments, each episode of this nerve-wracking new series tells two, compelling horror stories of people literally living in terror.My Sordid Affair
2017
My Sordid Affair
2017
star 1Half of all couples cheat but some take it too far that they can never go back. Tales of ordinary moms, dads, wives and husbands who strayed from their relationships and lived to regret it.Long Lost Family
2016
Long Lost Family
2016
star 7.5Follow the touching stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation and are yearning to be reunited with their birthparents and biological families or find children they had to place for adoption long ago.Growing Up Animal
2021
Growing Up Animal
2021
star 7Heart-warming stories following the development of baby animals on the magical journey from the safety of the womb to the challenges of the wild.Prison Brides
2024
Prison Brides
2024
Follow seven women from around the world who believe they have found their soulmates in the most unexpected of places, American prisons. The docuseries follows the women as they travel from their homes—many visiting the United States for the first time—to meet their prisoner fiancés, husbands, or partners, to chart their futures together.Lost Treasures of the Maya
2019
star 8.4A new "treasure map" of the Maya world is transforming what we thought we knew of one of the world most mysterious ancient civilizations.Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist
2017
star 7Dian Fossey's life story from childhood and her early days researching in Congo, through to her arrival in Rwanda, where she spent 18 years studying and protecting the mountain gorilla population. Through extensive and rarely seen archival footage, dozens of Fossey’s letters, interviews with friends and colleagues, and narration by Sigourney Weaver, the event series explores Fossey’s murder and the investigation and trial of her research student Wayne McGuire, who was found guilty in absentia of her murder by the Rwandan courts.American Godfathers: The Five Families
2024
star 8.4Explore five powerful New York Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America.Critter Fixers: Country Vets
2020
star 7100 miles south of Atlanta, Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson are two longtime friends who own and operate Critter Fixer Veterinary Hospital. Together with their loving staff, Drs. Hodges and Ferguson treat and care for over 20,000 patients. Between emergency visits to the office, and farm calls throughout rural Georgia - the Critter Fixers are constantly bombarded with unique cases you only see in the country.
