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. SundanceTV has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 2004 and as recent as 2025. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from August 2026 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • Tanner on Tanner
    Tanner on Tanner (2004)10.0

    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.

  • 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)7.6

    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)7.6

    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?

  • Iconoclasts
    Iconoclasts (2005)7.5

    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.

  • Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo
    Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo (2019)7.3

    The life and crimes of Tony Alamo, who, together with his wife, became a born-again, fire-and-brimstone televangelist and cult leader. It explores the cultural consequences of the Alamo empire and features rare archival footage, including an exclusive videotaped deposition with Alamo himself. It also weaves together interviews with the FBI agent who took Alamo down as well as cult survivors who have never previously shared their stories.

  • The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster
    The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster (2025)7.3

    Unpack the 2018 event known in the Furry community as the "Furry Zoosadist Leaks," which exposed a horrifying conspiracy of animal abuse lurking beneath the Fandom's playful exterior.

  • Top of the Lake
    Top of the Lake (2013)7.0

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

  • 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.

  • State of the Union
    State of the Union (2019)6.9

    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.

  • 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.

  • Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
    Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018)6.8

    Documentary series that examines the Jonestown Massacre 40 years later.

  • 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.

  • No One Saw a Thing
    No One Saw a Thing (2019)6.7

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
    Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter (2023)2.9

    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.

  • 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.