Top 42 Documentaries in United Kingdom

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Rank

Position in the Top 42, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United Kingdom. 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 United Kingdom, 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 United Kingdom. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank	Audience	Audience size	Country share	Avg age	Female share	Subtype
1	Yves Saint Laurent (film)	331k	2.3%	44.5	89.6%	Documentary
2	Vice (TV series)	192k	6.3%	39.8	43.2%	Documentary
3	Walking with Dinosaurs	171k	16.2%	41.4	59.3%	Documentary
4	POV (TV series)	127k	1.4%	40.4	58.7%	Documentary
5	Blue Planet	100k	21.9%	37.4	77.5%	Documentary
6	The Blue Planet	89k	28.7%	49.6	64.0%	Documentary
7	The Thin Blue Line (1988 film)	86k	16.5%	44.5	12.4%	Documentary
8	FRONTLINE	79k	1.1%	35.3	46.6%	Documentary
9	Silent Voices (2005 film)	65k	5.4%	37.9	70.9%	Documentary
10	Pumping Iron	64k	5.5%	45.0	35.3%	Documentary
11	Bowling for Columbine	62k	11.9%	39.1	50.4%	Documentary
12	The Original Kings of Comedy	57k	6.2%	43.6	50.2%	Documentary
13	Finding Your Roots	56k	6.8%	50.0	67.0%	Documentary
14	The Last Waltz	53k	11.0%	52.5	31.3%	Documentary
15	March of the Penguins	40k	13.1%	48.6	66.0%	Documentary
16	Oddities (TV series)	38k	5.5%	39.0	59.2%	Documentary
17	Land and Sea	33k	7.0%	45.6	63.1%	Documentary
18	Roadkill (Internet show)	25k	4.2%	37.2	5.9%	Documentary
19	Man on Wire	20k	6.0%	31.4	55.9%	Documentary
20	Elvis in Concert	19k	36.5%	56.0	62.1%	Documentary
21	Deadly Women	16k	4.6%	43.3	41.7%	Documentary
22	Restrepo (film)	15k	1.1%	40.8	0.0%	Documentary
23	What the Bleep Do We Know!?	13k	5.8%	32.7	77.3%	Documentary
24	Frozen Planet	9.9k	4.0%	48.0	50.7%	Documentary
25	American Experience	7k	2.0%	37.5	27.1%	Documentary

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 42 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom?

Yves Saint Laurent (film) currently leads with an estimated audience of 331k people in United Kingdom.

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