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The Best TV Shows on SundanceTV

Every SundanceTV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Icons of SundanceTV, The Staircase and Tanner on Tanner made their debut in 2004 and 2004, setting industry standards. As of December 2024, our compilation of SundanceTV’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Across the timeline from 2004 to 2024, SundanceTV has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • True Crime Story: Citizen Detective
    True Crime Story: Citizen Detective (2023)8.5

    The gripping stories of everyday citizens who have solved or are attempting to solve a murder. Each episode focuses on an individual citizen detective – or a group working together – and the case that they’re consumed by, unpacking the details of the case and exploring the psyches of those who simply need to know what happened and why?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Rectify
    Rectify (2013)7.5

    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?

  • State of the Union
    State of the Union (2019)7.2

    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.

  • 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.

  • Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
    Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter (2023)7.0

    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.

  • 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.

  • This Close
    This Close (2018)6.9

    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 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.

  • No One Saw a Thing
    No One Saw a Thing (2019)6.8

    A six-part, true crime docuseries about a mysterious murder of Ken Rex McElro that took place in the ‘80s with at least 60 witnesses present, all of whom deny seeing anything.

  • 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.

  • Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
    Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018)6.7

    Documentary series that examines the Jonestown Massacre 40 years later.

  • 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.

  • Iconoclasts
    Iconoclasts (2005)6.0

    Iconoclasts is a Sundance Channel show. Each episode pairs two "creative visionaries" who discuss their lives, influences, and art, most of whom are longtime friends with the other person featured in the episode. The series premiered on November 17, 2005, and has had six six-episode seasons.

  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)5.7

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

  • True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes
    True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes (2023)4.5

    Learn the story of Dr. George Kenney, former principal of North Port High School in Florida, who hypnotized students. After three of his students die in 2011, this series unpacks what happened and how culpable Dr. K really is.

  • The Tailor of Sin City
    The Tailor of Sin City (2024)4.0

    This is the (mostly) true story of a 1970s fashion icon turned cocaine kingpin caught between his loyalties to the mob, the Colombian Cartel, the FBI, and his 7 wives.

  • 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.