#Documentary

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Video thumbnail — Planet Earth (TV Mini Series 2006) | trailer
TV 2006–2007

Planet Earth

Eleven episodes, five years of filming, and one planet showing off. The BBC's 2006 landmark was the first nature documentary series the corporation shot in high definition, and it turned nature TV into event television — the show everyone bought an HDTV to justify, narrated by David Attenborough (or, if you watched it on Discovery, Sigourney Weaver).

Video thumbnail — Taxicab Confessions: The City That Never Sleeps Trailer (HBO Docs)
TV 1995–2010

Taxicab Confessions

HBO wired a real taxi with hidden cameras, put a real cab driver behind the wheel, and let strangers talk at three in the morning. Passengers found out they'd been filmed only when the ride ended. It won an Emmy in its first year, ran on and off for fifteen years, and remains one of the strangest things a premium network ever put on the air.