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Top 37 Documentaries in Brazil

This curated ranking covers the 37 largest documentaries in Brazil, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Yves Saint Laurent (film), POV (TV series) and Pina (film) lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.4M people. Across all 37 entries the average audience size is 54k, and the largest, Yves Saint Laurent (film), reaches around 749k people in Brazil. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Brazil who actively engage with each documentary, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Brazil and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 37, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Brazil who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Brazil. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Brazil, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Brazil. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Yves Saint Laurent (film) 749k 35.8 59.4% Documentary
2 POV (TV series) 498k 35.5 53.7% Documentary
3 Pina (film) 196k 39.2 63.2% Documentary
4 FRONTLINE 171k 27.0 0.0% Documentary
5 Vice (TV series) 93k 31.8 96.7% Documentary
6 What the Bleep Do We Know!? 55k 41.9 70.8% Documentary
7 Pumping Iron 35k 38.1 43.9% Documentary
8 Walking with Dinosaurs 25k 33.8 60.0% Documentary
9 The Original Kings of Comedy 24k 40.2 58.5% Documentary
10 The Last Waltz 24k 56.9 29.3% Documentary
11 Restrepo (film) 16k 39.6 6.3% Documentary
12 Frozen Planet 16k 46.3 33.4% Documentary
13 Roadkill (Internet show) 12k 31.5 36.1% Documentary
14 Bowling for Columbine 9.9k 36.4 51.9% Documentary
15 The Thin Blue Line (1988 film) 7.6k 36.8 16.4% Documentary
16 The Story of Stuff 6.2k 36.4 50.3% Documentary
17 Earthling 6.1k 22.5 15.7% Documentary
18 Inside Edition 5.9k 39.3 57.2% Documentary
19 March of the Penguins 4.4k 34.8 17.6% Documentary
20 Man on Wire 4k 25.9 60.7% Documentary
21 The Blue Planet 3.9k 40.3 69.7% Documentary
22 Finding Your Roots 3.8k 44.1 52.3% Documentary
23 Hail Satan 3.7k 24.0 44.3% Documentary
24 Miss Representation 3.2k 36.1 56.4% Documentary
25 Blue Planet 3k 26.6 48.7% Documentary

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 37 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Brazil and ranks each documentary by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest documentary in Brazil?

Yves Saint Laurent (film) currently leads with an estimated audience of 749k people in Brazil.

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