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High-impact music adds emotion and depth to documentaries, helping stories connect with viewers. Choose from orchestral, ambient, acoustic, cinematic, and world tracks, cleared for film, TV, festivals, and streaming platforms.

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Modern Africa

Modern Africa is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

African Story

African Story is a special music background track mixing African sounds and rhythms (Kalimba, Djembe, African percussions) Mood: Inspirational, beautiful, emotional, peaceful, soundscape, atmosphere, ambient.

Show Me The Way

Show Me The Way is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

Waves and Sand

Waves and Sand is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

Serenity

A slow and gentle track to ease your stress. Perfect for nature, nostalgia, relaxation, meditation, YouTube and much more.

Cinematic Documentary Background

A cinematic unobtrusive background track featuring piano, percussion, guitar, strings, synths and percussion. Works well for documentaries, movies, product presentations, explainer and technology videos, etc.

Evening Relaxation

A gentle and relaxing track with a hypnotic feel. Perfect for calming scenes, nature, mindfulness, relaxation, and much more.

Epic Africa

An uplifting and epic African track with balafon, West African and Bulgarian choirs, balafon, traditional African and epic percussion, flute, kalimba and vocal chants. Great for travel videos, advertisement, vlogs, documentaries and anything africa themed really. Available in Full, Loop and 60 seco...

Abstract Sad Background

Calm and sad background track featuring piano, marimba, celeste and more. This piece has been produced to work supporting narration and other elements within a media production.

Early Morning Moments

loopable majestic, optimistic orchestral track with string rnsemble and piano. Suitable for social media content, vlogs, and commercial/ads

Pirate Pub

loopable Spanish Latin Guitar Style Track with a Flamenco Classical Flavor. Caribbean and latin vibes suitable for documentaries, travel vlogs, and history content

Gangsta Swags

loopable Hip hop track with an edgy urban swaggar and attitude. Cool and hypnotic vibe great for ads, TV and Film

That Lovin Feelin

loopable Sultry chill R&B acoustic track with acoustic guitars and percussion. Great for lifestyle content, vlogs, and travel programming

Hard Choices

Contemplative acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Deep and thought provoking. Suitable for dramatic content and tv/film programming

Hopeless Cause

Sad acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Suitable for dramatic, sad dramas and documentaries

Out Of Options

Contemplative acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Suspenseful and somber. Suitable for tv/film underscore, dramatic vlogs and documentaries, and dramatic commercials/ads

Heavy Heart

Sad acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Somber and emotional. Great for dramatic tv/film underscore, documentaries, and reality tv

Trappin Fappin

gritty trap hip hop urban track that starts with a wah type guitar riff. Cool abnoxious attitude vibe complete with orchestral hits and synth drones. For sports/action themed content or lifestyle entertainment programming

They Call Me Hip Spanker

Guitar chugging trap beat with eclectic swaggar vibe. Cool and arrogant appeal with vocal stabs, lofi perc and synth plucks. Suitable for reality TV, Film soundtrack, and Urban entertainment/lifestyle content

Tainted Questions

Comtemplative and riveting modern neoclassical guitar ensemble track. Mysteriuos, intriguing, and poignant vibe with tense plucking, lead arpeggios, ambient fx and strong bass line. Suitable for artful tv/film programs, suspense, crime dramas, documentaries, and serious drama programming.

Sunny No More

Chill relaxed R&B flavored hiphop track with sultry guitar lead and lush old skool vibes. Suitable for sexy programming, urban tv/film content, and drama, lifestyle shows

Spanish Guitar Ditty No 1

Spanish Latin Guitar Style Track with a Flamenco Classical Flavor. Elegant and sophisticated vibes. Great for travel, documentaries, food and leisure, cocktail and lounge scenes, and artistic programming

Sincere Lie

Alternative Rock with Anthemic Feel. Starts with piano riff and builds with guitar and full band arrangement. Uplifting and cool vibe great for reflection montages and ads

Music for Documentaries

Documentary music is crafted to support storytelling without distracting from the narrative. It often uses subtle rhythms, evolving textures, and melodies that adapt to different subjects and scenes.

Where to Use Documentary Music

Documentaries can range from intimate personal stories to large-scale explorations of history or nature. If your film highlights travel, culture, or traditions, world music provides authentic sounds that help transport viewers into specific places and communities. For productions that explore human achievement, conflict, or nature on a grand scale, epic tracks deliver intensity and scope, giving the narrative more weight and dramatic impact. By combining documentary scoring with these categories, editors can match music directly to the subject matter.

Royalty-Free Documentary Tracks at Themusicase.com

All documentary tracks at Themusicase.com are royalty-free and include a sync license. The catalog includes investigative underscores, cultural soundscapes, and cinematic themes ready for film, broadcast, and online platforms.
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