The Best TV Shows on SundanceTV

Every SundanceTV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

SundanceTV has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2001 all the way to 2025. Our curated list, current as of November 2025, showcases over 20 of SundanceTV’s highest-rated series. Highlighting SundanceTV’s quality programming, Anatomy of a Scene and The Staircase stand out, premiering in 2001 and 2004.

  • Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
    Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter (2023)8.5

    THR’s famed Roundtables are reimagined for broadcast and offer a fresh perspective on a classic, showcasing the collective brilliance of the entertainment industry's finest and funniest minds as never before.

  • Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...
    Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... (2008)8.0

    Intimate interviews between host Elvis Costello and various musical guests intertwined with performances by Costello, the guests, and duets between the two.

  • Rectify
    Rectify (2013)7.6

    After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside world may be as unforgiving as prison. Daniel is haunted by the past, dogged by the present, and uncertain of the future. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his homecoming reignites the fears of a small town and threatens to shatter his family’s fragile peace. Daniel’s alleged crime divided a community. Will his freedom tear it in half?

  • The Staircase
    The Staircase (2004)7.5

    Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.

  • Top of the Lake
    Top of the Lake (2013)7.1

    A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

  • State of the Union
    State of the Union (2019)7.1

    Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.

  • Hap and Leonard
    Hap and Leonard (2016)6.9

    A darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends set in the late 1980s. Based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale, the series follows Hap Collins, an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper.

  • The Red Road
    The Red Road (2014)6.8

    Lines will be crossed when tragedy forces two men, a mesmerizing ex-con and an embattled local cop, to face the secrets of their past. As these two men find themselves increasingly compromised by one another, the lives of both quickly unravel.

  • One Child
    One Child (2014)6.8

    Mei, a young woman who was adopted from China as a baby, is dramatically pulled back into the land of her birth. As she embarks on a dangerous mission to save the brother she never knew, she is forced to confront the truth of who she truly is and what family really means.

  • True Crime Story
    True Crime Story (2021)6.8

    This franchise is made up of series that tell a wide variety of true crime stories from unique perspectives. Each will shine a new light on crime and the genre, focusing on fresh and unexpected stories from unlikely, and much-needed voices.

  • Babylon
    Babylon (2014)6.6

    London's police force is in need of a public image revamp. And Chief Constable Richard Miller has found just the woman to do it...American visionary from the world of new media Liz Garvey, sets out to revolutionise the force's PR department just as an outbreak of violence erupts.

  • Green Porno
    Green Porno (2008)6.4

    A series of very short films inspired by the amazing and often bizarre sexual practices of insects and other creatures.

  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)6.2

    Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

  • Anatomy of a Scene
    Anatomy of a Scene (2001)6.0

    Anatomy of a Scene is a television series produced by and aired regularly on Sundance Channel since 2001. As a tagline for the series notes, each 30-minute episode "dissects the art of filmmaking" of a scene from a specific film, often a film previously showcased at a Sundance Film Festival. An episode examines the scene from multiple perspectives, such as production design, costume design, cinematography, storyboards, writing, music, acting, and directing. Interviews with the cast and crew are interspersed with snippets from the film. Episodes of the show are often included on the DVD release of the films they study.

  • Iconoclasts
    Iconoclasts (2005)6.0

    In this Sundance Channel original series, leading innovators and creative visionaries come together to discuss their passions and creative processes to provide viewers with an inside glimpse into the inspiration and motivation that made these Iconoclasts who they are today. World leaders and entrepreneurs, actors and artists, athletes and musicians all appear to help make the series a cult favorite for a full six seasons, in partnership with Grey Goose Entertainment.

  • This Close
    This Close (2018)5.6

    BFFs Kate and Michael, who are both deaf and live in Los Angeles, are about to face new challenges - including a bad breakup, being tokenized at work and a troubling secret - all of which test their bond in surprising ways.

  • The Writers' Room
    The Writers' Room (2013)4.7

    The Writers' Room, hosted by Academy Award winning writer, Jim Rash, is all about the most innovative voices in TV today. Join us every week for a frank and revealing conversation about what we all love: television! With shocking and sometimes hilariously candid conversations, The Writers' Room gives you a never-before-seen window into your favorite shows.

  • Tanner on Tanner
    Tanner on Tanner (2004)N/A

    Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a documentary film directed by his daughter Alex focusing on the toll paid by failed contenders.

  • Brick City
    Brick City (2009)N/A

    Created and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, Brick City, is a documentary series that captures the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live. Against great odds, Newark’s citizens and its Mayor, Cory A. Booker, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty and corruption.

  • The Killer Clown: Murder on the Doorstep
    The Killer Clown: Murder on the Doorstep (2025)N/A

    With rumors of infidelity and an unhappy marriage, Marlene's husband Michael Warren emerges as the prime suspect, but with a solid alibi detectives can’t prove his involvement, and the case goes cold. Three decades later there's a shocking twist – Michael's alleged mistress Sheila Keen is arrested for Marlene’s murder accused of donning the clown disguise. In May 2023 Sheila pleaded guilty just before trial. Case closed? Or does this guilty plea raise as many questions as it answers?