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Our films illuminate unexplored worlds and provide an artistic lens through which we view reality. By bringing these authentic stories to television viewers nationwide, Documentary Channel hopes to inspire, motivate, educate, and entertain.

Documentary Channel is a 24-hour-per-day, 7-days-a-week television network dedicated exclusively to airing the works of independent documentary filmmakers. Documentary Channel features some of the highest quality documentary films made by many of the most talented documentarians of all time.

We present a broad range of titles including Academy Award-winning and -nominated features and shorts, festival winners, and festival favorites. Documentary Channel offers films of all lengths and genres, classics and cutting edge, covering politics, culture, science, the environment, war, music and sports, as well as exclusive IMAX originals, and our own in-house productions such as DocTalk and Treasures of the Academy.

Feel free to screen full movies in our screening rooms. In our DOC Store, you'll find a growing selection of the best docs available for purchase. Filmmakers: even if we are unable to air your doc on the network, we can help with revenue by including your work in our store!