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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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Epic Drum Tension

Epic thunderous cinematic drums track with traileresque battle vibe. Big orchestral taiko percussion and french horn stabs with hybrid synth textures. Great for film/TV and epic documentaires

Dream Machine

EDM Future bass track thats chill and downtempo. Wobble synths, dreamy grooves, and lofi stabs. Relaxed vibe good for background music or source music for TV/Film or ads

Clinical Trial

Science "curiosity" corporate track with light hearted investigative vibes. Mallet and 5/4 rhythms great for mystery and technology based content

Carry Me Home

Melancholy & dramatic piano based track. Cinematic orchestral theme with an uplifting hopeful vibe. Great for montages, inspirational ads, or movie soundtrack for film/TV

Carinosa Bossa

Elegant and sensual duo classical guitar bossa nova track. Lounge, chill vibes great for cocktail jazz scenes, travel, documentaries, and ads

Bouree In E Minor

Classical baroque era masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach on classical guitar. Great for TV/Film Drama, Documentary, learning programming, and period pieces

Baroque Guitarer Brain Massager

Duo guitar classical based track with a contemplating vibe for thinking or problem solving. Suitable for mystery, problem solving, and trivia content, historical documentary, and technology programming

Back Country Memoirs

Soft acoustic folk track with organic acoustic guitars, piano, and percussion. hopeful, calm and serene vibe suited for travel, documentaries, corporate, and commercial ads

Attic Imprints

Solemn, Inspirational and Somber Acoustic Country Folk Style Track with Acoustic Guitar and Strings. Great for reflective, dramatic content and vlogs

For You

For You is a beautiful chill and downtempo, lo-fi hip hop and R&B track with an urban feel that can fit very well in documentaries, vlogs, Youtube, fashion and lifestyle videos, commercials, or corporate presentations. In this one, you can hear soulful pianos.

End Of The Road

End Of The Road is an beautiful chill and downtempo, lo-fi hip hop track with an urban feel that can fit very well in documentaries, vlogs, Youtube, fashion and lifestyle videos, commercials, or corporate presentations. In this one, you can hear soulful pianos.

On The Ocean

On The Ocean is a beautiful chill and downtempo, lo-fi hip hop track with an urban feel that can fit very well in documentaries, vlogs, Youtube, fashion and lifestyle videos, commercials, or corporate presentations. In this one, you can hear soulful pianos, funky guitars, fat bass, and old-school dr...

An Epic Suspenseful Climax

Suspenseful track featuring cinematic, ticking and orchestral elements slowly building to a big climax.

Cinematic Inspiring Romance

'Cinematic Inspiring Romance' is an inspiring, emotional, calm and romantic epic music track, designed to work along with corporate videos, explainers, product presentations, movies, trailers, nature, food, drone and wedding videos. It features an emotional piano and orchestral strings.

Suspense And Melancholy

Melancholic and slightly suspenseful background track featuring ticking sounds, piano, bells and strings.

Summer Meadows

An optimistic track with a ‘British’ feeling of understatement. Perfect for nature, nostalgia, heart-warming stories, YouTube and much more!

Developing Insights

Calm friendly slightly suspenseful background track featuring celeste, marimba, piano and strings among other instruments.

An inspiring and motivating track

An inspiring and motivating track with delayed electric guitar, bells and soaring synths. The flowing emotional sounds give the ending wonder, discovery, inspiration to leave the listener inspired to search for something more.

Upbeat and motivational music

Upbeat and motivational music with a corporate, acoustic pop/rock vibe, great for promoting success, hard work, team building and synergy.

Soft downtempo lounge chill-out pop track

Soft downtempo lounge chill-out pop track with electric guitar performance and synth background. Pensive, creative and fashion style. Usefull for backgrounds, corporate or for Commercials/TV themes. Documentary, chill-out lounge club.

Simple, heart-warming, happy marimba melodies

Simple, heart-warming, happy marimba melodies and modern percussion make this a perfect mood setting piece for film, commercials, and tv.

Developing Emotional Story

Calm emotional background track featuring piano, celeste, marimba and strings. The gradual musical development throughout the piece enables it to support a variety of media productions.

tenet

This music relaxes and calms in a fantastic way. It can relax anyone who seeks relief in music. Its gentle sounds calm the nerves and soul in a fantastic way and give perfect harmony to life. relaxing atmospheres accompanied by analog instruments and synth pads emotional, sentimental and serene, to...

Power Of The Glory

A rising, cinematic royalty free orchestral music theme with piano bits, strings, big choirs and epic hits, great for sports openers, action trailers, intros, battle or fantasy contents.

Cinematic Tension Unfolding

Suspenseful cinematic theme building towards a conclusion. The central piano melody is pushed forwards by tense string arrangements, ticking and other driving elements.

Inspiring and Delicate Orchestra

A heroic, inspiring royalty-free cinematic theme, with a soft piano, bold strings, flutes, harps, and percussions, great for adventure films, war games, romances, or historical montages.

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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