Investigative Reality TV on Netflix
Last updated April 28, 2024
Treasure Quest
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe Discovery Channel goes behind the scenes with the intrepid members of Odyssey Marine Exploration as they scour ocean floors around the world for sunken treasure and important historical finds. Using state-of-the-art technology, the adventurers search for privateers, World War II submarines, Colonial-era wrecks and other lost vessels, and are always mindful of the tragedy behind each story, as well as the potential for riches.
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MythBusters: Big Blasts Collection
2008 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsTag along with MythBusters Jamie and Adam for explosive fun as they try to blow up a cement truck filled with hardened concrete, send an ordinary water heater through the roof of a house, dunk a ticking time bomb under water and much more.
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Treasure Quest: Season 1
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn the first season of this reality series, the intrepid Odyssey Marine Exploration crew hunts for the 17th-century ship Merchant Royal, examines several World War II German U-boats, and surveys many other amazing wrecks.
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The Shift: Season 1
2008 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis gritty reality series from Discovery takes you on a ride-along with the men and women of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Division as they work to crack murder cases and get the bad guys off the street. Stripping away the glamour of a prime-time drama, "The Shift" affords a down-and-dirty look at how police work really gets done by ace investigators who dedicate their lives to making the world a little safer.
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Desert Car Kings: Season 1
2011 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThe McClure family and their ragtag crew restore American glory, one classic car at a time. Their family business, Desert Valley Auto Parts, houses over 10,000 rust-free vehicles over 100 sun-baked Arizona acres.
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Dude, What Would Happen?
2009 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsCurious teens C.J. Manigo, Jackson Rogow and Ali Sepasyar push the limits of science and conduct experiments that generate some pretty outrageous results. With these fearless guys, the sky is the limit.
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Desert Car Kings
2011 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsPart car hospital, part auto adoption agency, Desert Valley Auto Parts in Phoenix, AZ is the family-run business that brings classic clunkers back from the dead, and then finds them a new home.
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Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files: Season 1
2010 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsBen Hansen and his team of paranormal experts investigate reports of a lake monster in Pennsylvania, a flying saucer in Arizona, a mermaid in Australia, an apparition in an Indiana cemetery and other sightings.
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The Jeff Corwin Experience
2000 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsIn this popular Animal Planet series, animal and nature conservationist Jeff Corwin gets up close and personal with some of the world's most interesting animals whether he's in America or in far-flung locales like Tanzania, India, Borneo or Thailand. Corwin brings viewers in on all the action as he rubs dirty elbows with cobras, Asian elephants, orphan orangutans, harpy eagles, kodiak bears, alligators and more.
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Dude, What Would Happen?: Season 1
2009 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsDude, what would happen if we tied 375 helium balloons to a sumo wrestler? Dude, what would happen if we tried to bowl with a helicopter? Or dude, what would happen if we shot cannonballs at each other? With these fearless guys, the sky's the limit!
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Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files
2010 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsFormer FBI agent Ben Hansen leads a team of intrepid investigators who analyze videos and photos that claim to be documenting paranormal activity. They talk to witnesses, carry out experiments and collect samples to determine the truth.
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Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files: Season 2
2011 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsBen Hansen is a former FBI agent who is fascinated by the paranormal. Now, having left the agency, he leads a team of intrepid investigators who dissect the latest paranormal evidence by interviewing witnesses and using the latest detection devices.
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The Jeff Corwin Experience: Season 2
2002 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsEmmy-winning nature enthusiast Jeff Corwin visits more exotic locations to give viewers an up-close look at a variety of fascinating creatures in the second season of this popular Animal Planet series. His travels take him the Amazon, Costa Rica, Australia, Zanzibar, Nepal and Morocco in pursuit of such animals as Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, great white sharks, venomous snakes, manatees and more.
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The Jeff Corwin Experience: Season 1
2000 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsJourney with Jeff Corwin as he travels to far-off locations to see some of the world's most interesting animals. Whether in the States or abroad in places such as India, Borneo or Thailand, Corwin is always ready to bring viewers close to the action. Asian elephants, orphan orangutans, venomous snakes and harpy eagles are just a few of the species of wildlife you'll meet in this collection of episodes from the popular Animal Planet series.
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Hardcover Mysteries
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsFeaturing some of America's most popular writers of thrillers and whodunits, "Hardcover Mysteries" explores the crossover from fact to fiction. In this series, best-selling authors discuss the real-life cases that inspired their page-turners.
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30 Days: Season 1
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsMorgan Spurlock (of Supersize Me fame) hosts this one-hour documentary film series that places subjects for a month in situations they're unlikely to seek out on their own. By subjecting themselves to such circumstances, participants help shed light on social issues plaguing America today, such as the rift created by religious differences between Muslims and Christians in America, the incarcerated and the lawyers who put them in prison, and more.
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Hardcover Mysteries: Season 1
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsBest-selling authors examine the incredible real-life cases that inspired their own creations. Storytellers do what they do best by adding unique perspectives and creative twists to some of history's most famous mysteries.
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Finding Bigfoot
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsFrom small towns in the South to remote areas of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, four eccentric but passionate sasquatch enthusiasts embark on one single-minded mission: to find the elusive creature known as Bigfoot.
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30 Days
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSupersize Me director and star Morgan Spurlock created and hosts this "do-gooding" reality series that attempts to up participants' empathy quotients -- and provoke discussion among viewers -- by immersing them in someone else's reality for a month. Not one to shy away from experience, Spurlock himself joins in the action, going to work in the coal mines of his native West Virginia and attempting to survive on minimum wage for 30 days.
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Finding Bigfoot: Season 2
2012 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsFinding Bigfoot's investigative team continues their pursuit of sasquatches in the most notorious bigfoot hot spots. The bigfooters use cutting-edge technology and radical new techniques in their quest to find bigfoot.
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30 Days: Season 3
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsHost Morgan Spurlock presides over a third season of the absorbing FX series, which places participants in fish-out-of-water scenarios for a month and chronicles the funny, surprising and often moving results. Highlights include a Massachusetts gun-control advocate who moves in with an Ohio gun-enthusiast family, an ex-NFL star who spends 30 days in a wheelchair, and a traditional mother who moves in with a same-sex couple and their adopted sons.
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30 Days: Season 2
2006 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhat better way to give people a crash course in empathy than to have them inhabit somebody else's life for 30 days? That's exactly what Super Size Me director and star Morgan Spurlock does on this popular FX Network show. Season 2 opens with "a border-patrolling minuteman" moving in with an undocumented Mexican family and continues with episodes on abortion, New Age healing, prisons (with Spurlock himself spending time behind bars) and more.
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Is It Real?: Season 3
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsEnter the strange realm of lost cities, ancient aliens and supernatural spirits in this National Geographic documentary series, which debates the facts and fictions swirling around unexplained phenomena. The show's third season endeavors to answer age-old questions about the fabled Atlantis, examines allegations that primitive Neanderthals still exist today and explores the bizarre world of feral children.
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Is It Real?: Season 2
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsScience squares off against the supernatural in this documentary series that weighs conflicting explanations of strange phenomena. Season Two enters the world of psychic detectives, evaluates Nostradamus's predictions, and more.
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Is It Real?: Season 1
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFrom crop circles to demonic possession, this National Geographic documentary series explores unexplained phenomena, inviting both paranormal experts and skeptical scientists to share their theories. Do animals that seem to "predict" natural disasters have psychic abilities? Can spontaneous human combustion be explained by poltergeists -- or by physics? Season 1 also visits a haunted house, stakes out Bigfoot, evaluates UFO sightings and more.
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