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BBC Studios Documentary Unit

United Kingdom(approximate location)

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television

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Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.4IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

6 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
BAFTAs0of1nominations0%

1 win from 3 nominations across all awards

Mostly
documentary, history, crime
Active
2005–2025
Best known for
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 15 of 16 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
66 seasons

2014–2024

Television rating
7.9IMDb

Their films average 6.2, so the television rates 1.6 higher.

Networks
  • Channel 42
  • BBC Two2
  • Channel 4 (Online)1
  • U&Yesterday1
  • PBS1

Across 6 series matched to TMDB, 36 episodes. 4 still returning or in production.

Longest runningLucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets · 2 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits16 of 17

9 films · 7 TV titles

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  • 2019 · TV

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  • 2017 · Film

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  • 2014 · TV

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Showing 16 of 17 titles on record.

Titles per year16 titles · busiest 2020 with 3

16 titles across 21 years, averaging 0.8 a year. The last five years average 1.8 a year, above their long-run rate. 12 of those 21 years carry no credit on file. 16 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2020 (3). 9 in the last five years shown, against 5 in the five before.

Quality over time6 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 6.4200020102020

5 of 6 rated titles sit above their 6.4 average. 6 titles rated on IMDb between 1997 and 2026, averaging 6.4 weighted by votes. Highest: Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets (2020) at 8.1; lowest: Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers (2025) at 6.1.

Who they work with

Notable cast
  • Lucy Worsley2
Genres
  • Documentary15 of 15
  • History2 of 15

Names appearing on two or more of BBC Studios Documentary Unit’s produced titles, across the 15 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

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