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Top 31 Documentaries in India

This curated ranking covers the 31 largest documentaries in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. POV (TV series), FRONTLINE and Silent Voices (2005 film) lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.2M people. Across all 31 entries the average audience size is 54k, and the largest, POV (TV series), reaches around 904k people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each documentary, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 31, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 POV (TV series) 904k 32.2 12.9% Documentary
2 FRONTLINE 195k 47.1 51.3% Documentary
3 Silent Voices (2005 film) 141k 31.1 28.7% Documentary
4 Yves Saint Laurent (film) 102k 23.9 52.4% Documentary
5 Frozen Planet 93k 36.0 21.7% Documentary
6 Blue Planet 71k 38.5 57.0% Documentary
7 Pumping Iron 33k 28.5 22.5% Documentary
8 Walking with Dinosaurs 17k 28.6 28.7% Documentary
9 Finding Your Roots 15k 39.4 64.8% Documentary
10 The Story of Stuff 12k 31.0 25.9% Documentary
11 The Blue Planet 11k 25.7 22.0% Documentary
12 The Thin Blue Line (1988 film) 9.2k 29.3 22.6% Documentary
13 Roadkill (Internet show) 8.5k 23.9 9.5% Documentary
14 March of the Penguins 7.4k 23.5 74.8% Documentary
15 The Original Kings of Comedy 6.7k 32.4 21.5% Documentary
16 Bowling for Columbine 6.4k 34.4 49.2% Documentary
17 Man on Wire 6.1k 31.8 47.2% Documentary
18 Oddities (TV series) 6.1k 24.2 24.7% Documentary
19 American Experience 4.7k 23.1 35.0% Documentary
20 Restrepo (film) 3.6k 26.4 0.0% Documentary
21 The Acting Class 2k 28.6 33.3% Documentary
22 Miss Representation 1.8k 38.9 70.4% Documentary
23 A Football Life 1.2k 21.8 0.0% Documentary
24 Inside Edition 911 30.8 29.1% Documentary
25 Seconds From Disaster 828 27.2 12.9% Documentary

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 31 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India 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 India?

POV (TV series) currently leads with an estimated audience of 904k people in India.

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