documentary Channel

Joanna Lumley�s Trans-Siberian Adventure — Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure

Joanna Lumley embarks on the world’s greatest train journey for this epic three-part documentary series.

Thursdays, starting Nov 24 (3-part series)

Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure

Joanna Lumley embarks on the world’s greatest train journey for this epic three-part documentary series.

Thursdays, starting Nov 24 (3-part series)

Mavis!

Sunday, Nov 27 at 9pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

Mavis! is the first feature documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers.

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl

Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

Still a Mountain Girl features never-before-seen home movies, performances and photos, as well as insightful interviews with her friends and fellow musicians.

Do You Dream in Colour?

Sunday, Dec. 4 at 9pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

Connor, Nick, Sarah and Carina are like most teenagers navigating the growing pains of high school, but unlike their peers they face another challenge - they're blind.

Guantanamo’s Child

Dec. 5 at 8pm ET on documentary Channel

Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, out on bail after 13 years, speaks for the first time in an exclusive interview.

When Elephants Were Young

Dec 7 at 7pm ET/10 PT, and Dec. 11 at 9pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

When Elephants Were Young is the result of their five-year quest to explore new strategies for the future of human-elephant relations and the survival of all elephants.

The Empire of Scents

Dec. 14 at 7pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

Smell moves us, subliminally and profoundly. It moves us to act and do things we are wholly unaware of. It enriches our lives, gives us with unspeakable joys. Take a journey into the world of smell.

I Am What I Play

Dec 18 at 9pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

From the 1960s to the 1980s, the rock radio DJ played an unprecedented creative role in the rock music world. Where are they now -- and how did they reinvent themselves as the medium changed?

Emptying the Skies

Dec. 20 at 9pm ET on documentary Channel

Based on a widely republished New Yorker essay by best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen, Emptying the Skies exposes the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern...

Where the Wild Men Are

Thursdays at 9pm ET/10 PT on documentary Channel

A complex character with a troubled past, Ben Fogle discovers how this lone westerner ditched the hunt for the American dream, adopted a native family...