Best Documentary

Subscribers 8.0M

Videos 3.1K

Views 2.1B

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Best Documentary curates real stories, amazing facts, and eye-opening documentaries drawn from history, politics, economics, and global events. The channel presents in-depth long-form videos and topical explorations (52–104 minutes typical), with recent titles ranging from historical wars to modern geopolitical topics, and averages around 4.8M views per video. Upload frequency is steady since 2016, with a long-run catalog of 3,100 videos and current total views of 2.1B.

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DW Documentary YouTube channel thumbnail

DW Documentary view on YouTube ▶

86% relevance

Subscribers 6.4M

Videos 1.5K

Views 923.4M

Appearances 29

SERP 100%

Similarity 76%

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Both target global current affairs with a strong emphasis on large-scale systems (economies, infrastructure) and historical events (9/11), aligning with the shared searches for economic globalization and infrastructure topics, though Best Documentary’s style tends toward broad documentary narratives while DW focuses more on global analysis.

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FRONTLINE PBS | Official view on YouTube ▶

66% relevance

Subscribers 3.4M

Videos 1.2K

Views 929.7M

Appearances 17

SERP 50%

Similarity 77%

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Shares a focus on investigative storytelling and significant events (intelligence failures, 9/11, digital era history) with Best Documentary, with high search overlap on intelligence failures and 9/11 yet differing in presentation and episodic investigative depth.

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HISTORY view on YouTube ▶

61% relevance

Subscribers 15.2M

Videos 11K

Views 5.0B

Appearances 14

SERP 43%

Similarity 73%

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Both channels explore historical events and political themes (undiscovered histories, hostage crises, conspiracies), matching searches around political history and conspiracies, though HISTORY often leans more toward dramatized historical storytelling while Best Documentary emphasizes documentary rigor.

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58% relevance

Subscribers 1.3M

Videos 722

Views 66.8M

Appearances 9

SERP 29%

Similarity 77%

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Centers on economic globalization and geopolitical power, mirroring Best Documentary’s audience via searches for economic globalization and geopolitics, but Moconomy tends to concentrate more on economic theory and macro trends than broad documentary coverage.

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Real Stories

57% relevance

Subscribers 6.7M

Videos 1.2K

Views 979.9M

Appearances 10

SERP 23%

Similarity 80%

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Appeals to viewers interested in intelligence failures and dramatic real-world events (9/11, fugitives, bank robberies), aligning with shared searches for intelligence failures and 9/11, while Real Stories often emphasizes narrative crime documentary style versus Best Documentary’s broader issue-driven approach.

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Free Documentary view on YouTube ▶

55% relevance

Subscribers 5.7M

Videos 964

Views 1.3B

Appearances 4

SERP 18%

Similarity 79%

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Delivers expansive topics like space and natural disasters that overlap with Best Documentary’s interest in large-scale science and history, with strong content similarity but differing emphasis on disaster-focused storytelling.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors include DW Documentary (86% match) and FRONTLINE PBS | Official (66% match). Both share overlapping queries with Best Documentary such as economic globalization documentaries and 9/11 documentary, plus infrastructure collapse documentary. HISTORY (61% match) also competes, aligning on queries like american hostage crisis documentary and undiscovered histories documentary. Best Documentary has 8M subscribers, while DW Documentary has 6.4M and FRONTLINE PBS has 3.4M, indicating DW is closer in audience size but all compete in similarly broad, documentary-focused topics. Real Stories (57% match) also overlaps on intelligence failures documentary and fugitives bank robbery documentary, indicating some cross-topic competition, though it has 6.7M subscribers.

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Rank	Relevance	Channel	Similarity	Subscribers	SERP	Appearances
#7	54%	Free Documentary - History	77%	1.1M	21%	4
#8	54%	Al Jazeera English	66%	17.5M	36%	11
#9	54%	Get.factual ▶	77%	818K	19%	7
#10	54%	American Experience \| PBS ▶	78%	552K	18%	4
#11	54%	NOVA PBS Official	78%	1.4M	18%	3
#12	54%	Bloomberg Originals ▶	72%	5.0M	26%	6
#13	53%	World View - Documentary ▶	81%	16.9K	12%	3
#14	53%	SLICE Full Doc ▶	78%	479K	15%	6
#15	53%	Timeline - World History Documentaries ▶	73%	5.8M	24%	7
#16	53%	World at War	80%	1.2M	13%	3
#17	52%	Absolute History	76%	3.7M	17%	2
#18	52%	Banijay History	79%	1.0M	12%	2
#19	51%	National Geographic ▶	70%	25.9M	23%	7
#20	51%	RealLifeLore ▶	72%	7.9M	19%	3
#21	51%	fern ▶	78%	4.7M	10%	3
#22	50%	Hidden Truths	72%	14.5K	17%	5
#23	50%	Johnny Harris ▶	76%	7.5M	13%	3
#24	50%	The Wall Street Journal ▶	75%	6.6M	14%	5
#25	50%	wocomoDOCS ▶	75%	375K	13%	2
#26	50%	Naked Science	76%	1.7M	12%	1
#27	50%	Banijay Science	75%	620K	14%	2
#28	50%	The Life Guide	73%	1.1M	16%	4
#29	50%	60 Minutes	75%	4.0M	13%	4
#30	50%	FINAiUS ▶	75%	746K	12%	4
#31	50%	Fall of Civilizations ▶	72%	1.5M	16%	3
#32	49%	History After Dark ▶	73%	40K	13%	3
#33	49%	Extraordinary People	75%	66.7K	10%	1
#34	49%	Sideprojects ▶	71%	1.3M	16%	5
#35	49%	CrashCourse ▶	67%	16.9M	22%	8
#36	48%	WatchMojo.com ▶	73%	25.9M	10%	4
#37	48%	True Story Documentary Channel	74%	361K	10%	1
#38	48%	Robert Greene	69%	2.2M	16%	2
#39	48%	TheBlackestPanther	73%	39.8K	10%	1
#40	48%	Matt Walsh	73%	3.4M	10%	1
#41	47%	Chill Dude Explains ▶	71%	579K	12%	1
#42	47%	Vox ▶	72%	12.7M	10%	1
#43	47%	National Geographic UK	69%	444K	14%	2
#44	46%	TEDx Talks ▶	66%	44.2M	17%	3
#45	46%	Spirit Science ▶	70%	1.6M	11%	2
#46	46%	Vasile Iuga	70%	180K	10%	2
#47	45%	Nat Geo Animals	67%	6.3M	11%	2
#48	44%	Tim Nance (NanceNotes and Narwhals)	65%	40.3K	12%	1
#49	43%	Olivier Bossard on Finance	66%	46.8K	10%	1
#50	43%	webhamster	63%	1.2K	12%	1

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Best Documentary?

DW Documentary — 86% match, 6.4M subscribers; FRONTLINE PBS | Official — 66% match, 3.4M subscribers; HISTORY — 61% match, 15.2M subscribers. They share a focus on documentary-style, educational, historical, and current events content.

What type of content does Best Documentary make?

Best Documentary produces history and documentary-style videos, with titles like 'June 6, 1944 – The Light of Dawn | History - D-Day - World War II Documentary' (56.8M views), 'China's Secret Police' (10.6K views), and 'The New Silk Road: The Global Ambitions of the Chinese Economy' (60.8K views). It uploads multiple videos and averages about 4.8M views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Best Documentary?

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