Television documentary also known as a TV documentary is a documentary film made specially for television stations or for specialty documentary channels, or in case of political and historical documentary subjects in news channels, without the intention of showing it in movie theaters. Another good example of television documentaries are the travel documentaries that are featured in specialized geographocal or tourism television channels like the National Geographic Channel.

The films might end up showing though in film societies or in theatres that specialize in showing documentaries.

However, in rare occasions, the television documentaries become so popular that they are launched for wider release in movie theaters.

[edit] See also

• Documentary film
• Documentary channel

[edit] Examples of Television Documentary Channels

• Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
• Canal D
• Discovery Channel
• DOC: The Documentary Channel
• Docu TVE
• documentary
• The History Channel
• National Geographic Channel

[edit] Examples of Television Documentary Series

• Extreme Engineering
• The Living Dead
• MegaStructures
• Pandora's Box
• Secret History
• This Is Your Life
• The Trap
• Unsolved History
• Urban Legends