The Best TV Shows on Sky Documentaries

Every Sky Documentaries Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Sky Documentaries has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 2020 and as recent as 2025. Notable series such as Race to Perfection and Escobar by Escobar from Sky Documentaries first graced the screens in 2020 and 2021. As of August 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of Sky Documentaries’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • The Girl Who Caught a Killer
    The Girl Who Caught a Killer (2025)10.0

    Telling the story of Rachael Watts, who breaks her thirty-year silence to share her story for the first time on camera revealing how she survived a brutal abduction and assault, leading to the revelation of a devastating miscarriage of justice.

  • The Man Who Played with Fire
    The Man Who Played with Fire (2023)9.0

    Gripping docuseries exploring the 1986 assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme - a case dubbed "Europe's JFK" - and author Stieg Larsson's extraordinary investigation into the case.

  • Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
    Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (2022)8.5

    Exploring the 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over two decades.

  • Boyzone: No Matter What
    Boyzone: No Matter What (2025)8.5

    The year is 1993. The UK and Ireland are swept up in electrifying boy band mania. Across Dublin’s clubs, bars and schools, a feverish hunt begins, to find the next musical sensation. In the era before tv talent shows ruled, hundreds vied for stardom, but only five working-class Dubliners would have the luck to be plucked from obscurity and be thrust into the global spotlight. It’s here, we begin our story.

  • Kingdom of Dreams
    Kingdom of Dreams (2022)8.2

    'Kingdom of Dreams' is a stunning four-part series chronicling three critical decades of the fashion world, from the early 1990s through to the 2010s. Described as a Golden Age, this period of time was an era of disruption and innovation as the traditional fashion business bumped heads against the young and exciting international visionaries who were shaking up the industry. Using rare library material, never-before-seen personal archives and story-driven interviews, explore a pivotal time in fashion history up close.

  • Lockerbie
    Lockerbie (2023)7.8

    Four-part documentary recounting the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, when 270 people lost their lives. With exclusive access to victims' families, investigators, officials and key figures.

  • Black Widow
    Black Widow (2024)7.8

    Follows the decade-long police investigation into one of Britain’s most dangerous female murderers. Over 20 years, Dena Thompson who was known as ‘The Black Widow’, carried out a sustained campaign of fraud, deception, bigamy and murder. Using Lonely Hearts columns to lure a succession of husbands and dozens of lovers into her life, she was able to coerce them into giving up their life’s savings, their homes, their families and their freedom based on her bizarre but convincing stories.

  • Liverpool Narcos
    Liverpool Narcos (2021)7.7

    In the 1980s, Liverpool became the epicentre of a drugs boom that was to change Britain forever. With unprecedented access to some of the biggest players, this is the story of how drugs went mainstream and dealing became a multi-billion pound business

  • The Essex Murders
    The Essex Murders (2023)7.2

    Gripping three-part docuseries examining the assassination of the so-called 'Essex Boys' in 1995, a case that has sparked countless gangster films, books and a frenzy of speculation.

  • Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?
    Mother Teresa: For the Love of God? (2022)7.0

    The extraordinary truth about one of the most revered, yet enigmatic, controversial, and complex figures in contemporary history. Told through the multiple viewpoints from those who knew her best and drawing on archive and personal letters where we hear from Mother Teresa in her own words, this series tells the astonishing story of a latter-day Saint.

  • The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin and Megan?
    The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin and Megan? (2023)7.0

    On 9 July 1996, three bodies were found in a little leafy copse beside a country lane in Chillenden, Kent. Dr Lin Russell, 45, and her two daughters, Megan, six and Josie, nine, had all suffered brutal head injuries caused by a blunt instrument. They had been tied up and their family dog, Lucy, was also found dead nearby.

  • Race to Perfection
    Race to Perfection (2020)6.9

    With unseen archive footage and interviews with the sport's greatest names, this Sky original docuseries celebrates the incredible 70-year history of Formula 1.

  • Spector
    Spector (2022)6.2

    A four-part documentary series about enigmatic, legendary music producer Phil Spector and what happened on the fateful night of February 3, 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion.

  • Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator
    Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator (2023)6.0

    Docuseries telling the extraordinary story of a group of strangers who came together to take down a serial predator luring women to his apartment through Couchsurfing.com.

  • House of Kardashian
    House of Kardashian (2023)5.7

    A new documentary series from the Kardashians, featuring never-before-seen archival footage and interviews from the family’s inner circle, including Caitlyn Jenner.

  • David Frost vs
    David Frost vs (2025)5.5

    Drawing from Frost's archive of more than 10,000 era-defining interviews, many of which have been lost for a generation, the documentary takes viewers on an immersive journery through the most important moments of the late 20th century via Frost's personal and revealing conversations with the protagonists, with striking parallels to today.

  • Escobar by Escobar
    Escobar by Escobar (2021)5.4

    The true story of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his son, Juan Pablo, whose life changed astronomically the day his father died.

  • Positive
    Positive (2021)N/A

    A poignant look into Britain's 40-year struggle with HIV/AIDS, told through the stories of some of the earliest HIV patients, healthcare workers and activitsts.

  • David Fuller: Monster in the Morgue
    David Fuller: Monster in the Morgue (2023)N/A

    Two-part series uncovering the case of David Fuller, a killer who also abused over 100 bodies in a hospital mortuary.

  • 7/7: Homegrown Terror
    7/7: Homegrown Terror (2025)N/A

    On 7 July 2005, terrorist attacks shook London. Twenty years on, this series reveals not just what happened on 7/7, but how and why.