Popularity ranking · Portugal

The 43 most popular Documentaries in Portugal

This curated ranking covers the 43 largest documentaries in Portugal, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Yves Saint Laurent (film), POV (TV series) and FRONTLINE lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 267k people. Across all 43 entries the average audience size is 8.2k, and the largest, Yves Saint Laurent (film), reaches around 189k people in Portugal. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Portugal who actively engage with each documentary, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Portugal and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 43, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Portugal. 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 Portugal, 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 Portugal. 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) 189k 35.5 57.4% Documentary
2 POV (TV series) 40k 35.1 44.1% Documentary
3 FRONTLINE 38k 46.6 54.6% Documentary
4 Silent Voices (2005 film) 13k 42.4 83.8% Documentary
5 What the Bleep Do We Know!? 12k 48.9 70.0% Documentary
6 Vice (TV series) 9.9k 36.7 47.9% Documentary
7 Pina (film) 9.8k 39.2 63.2% Documentary
8 Pumping Iron 6.3k 34.7 75.3% Documentary
9 Earthling 3.2k 37.4 61.3% Documentary
10 Living Proof (film) 2.7k 45.5 91.5% Documentary
11 Roadkill (Internet show) 2.3k 46.5 7.8% Documentary
12 Walking with Dinosaurs 2k 38.4 48.8% Documentary
13 Aluna 2k 44.1 61.1% Documentary
14 Bowling for Columbine 1.9k 34.4 49.2% Documentary
15 The Thin Blue Line (1988 film) 1.3k 46.8 40.0% Documentary
16 Blue Planet 1.2k 38.5 57.0% Documentary
17 Finding Your Roots 1.2k 50.0 63.7% Documentary
18 Hard Knocks 909 38.4 13.2% Documentary
19 The Story of Stuff 889 44.0 52.6% Documentary
20 Restrepo (film) 853 35.8 51.3% Documentary
21 Man on Wire 748 32.5 0.0% Documentary
22 March of the Penguins 642 45.5 53.6% Documentary
23 Oddities (TV series) 526 37.2 66.1% Documentary
24 I-Witness 522 45.0 56.4% Documentary
25 Hail Satan 486 37.4 40.8% Documentary

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular documentaries compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Portugal 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 Portugal?

Yves Saint Laurent (film) currently leads with an estimated audience of 189k people in Portugal.

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