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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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Spirit Catcher (Norse Viking Soundscape)

An atmospheric and ritualistic soundscape with a mystical ambience featuring dreamy drones, horns, guitars, throat singing, overtones, deep percussions and humming. Great fit for history and period documentaries, antropology projects, meditative and abstract videos, experimental and fantasy project...

Horizons

Horizons is a track with a motivating and positive sound. Soft piano with strings on top, violin, cymbals, orchestral percussion, horns, bass synthesizers, kick.

Intriguing Beginnings

Curious sounding track featuring marimba, piano complemented by lush sounds and effects.

Uplifting Indie Pop

'Uplifting Indie Pop' is a groovy, modern, uplfitng, motivational and inspiring electric guitar based background song, featuring electric guitars, rhodes piano, synths, bass and drums. This background track will work nicely along product or service presentation videos, commercials, tech videos, doc...

Frozen Tears - Cold Mysterious Landscape

An ambient track full of mysteries, made of of snow, ice and stone. It conveys pictures of cold lands in a dreamy and mystical way. Great fit for meditative and abstract videos, experimental and fantasy projects, nature documentaries, anthropology projects and more.

Military Epic Percussion

A rising epic tribal drums. Perfect for film/game trailers, commercials, epic videos, military projects and so on.

Blue Morning

A soft, emotional and romantic solo piano. This track is perfect for nature scenes, sentimental and romantic stories, time-lapse, and more.

At Peace

A relaxing and gentle orchestral track with feelings of peace and hope. Perfect for relaxation, YouTube videos, and scenes of nature.

Restricted Access

Suspenseful background track featuring piano, strings and ominous synthesizer sounds.

Draumur (Shamanic Viking Music)

An atmospheric and ritualistic soundscape with a mystical ambience featuring medieval instruments, deep percussions, beautiful women and deep man vocalizes. Great fit for history and period documentaries, antropology projects, meditative and abstract videos, experimental and fantasy projects. Themes...

The Documentary (Short 2 Version)

Documentary is a dramatic composition perfect for documentary, tech, time lapse and cinematic videos needing an ambient and airy soundtrack. Featuring piano, electronic instruments, and synths, this piece has a modern feel with a certain tense and suspenseful feel. 5 VERSIONS INCLUDED: Full Versio...

The Documentary (Short Version)

Documentary is a dramatic composition perfect for documentary, tech, time lapse and cinematic videos needing an ambient and airy soundtrack. Featuring piano, electronic instruments, and synths, this piece has a modern feel with a certain tense and suspenseful feel. 5 VERSIONS INCLUDED: Full Versio...

The Documentary (Medium 2 Version)

Documentary is a dramatic composition perfect for documentary, tech, time lapse and cinematic videos needing an ambient and airy soundtrack. Featuring piano, electronic instruments, and synths, this piece has a modern feel with a certain tense and suspenseful feel. 5 VERSIONS INCLUDED: Full Versio...

The Documentary (Medium Version)

Documentary is a dramatic composition perfect for documentary, tech, time lapse and cinematic videos needing an ambient and airy soundtrack. Featuring piano, electronic instruments, and synths, this piece has a modern feel with a certain tense and suspenseful feel. 5 VERSIONS INCLUDED: Full Versio...

The Documentary

Documentary is a dramatic composition perfect for documentary, tech, time lapse and cinematic videos needing an ambient and airy soundtrack. Featuring piano, electronic instruments, and synths, this piece has a modern feel with a certain tense and suspenseful feel. 5 VERSIONS INCLUDED: Full Versio...

Unstable world

A dramatic composition of piano and strings that creates an atmosphere of experience and hope. Combined with dramatic, sad, hopeful videos and documentaries.

Soul Remorse

A sentimental ambient composition with piano and pads that creates a deep dramatic atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with sentimental, dramatic videos, nostalgic, sad themes, slideshows, social videos, commercial projects, etc.

Optimistic thoughts

A sentimental acoustic composition with piano and pads that creates a dramatic atmosphere and an upbeat mood. Combined with sentimental, dramatic videos, optimistic, hopeful themes, slideshows, social videos, etc.

Eternal Truths

A sentimental ambient composition with piano and pads that creates a deep dramatic atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with sentimental, dramatic videos, nostalgic, sad themes, slideshows, social videos, commercial projects, etc.

In Space Scope

Calm ambient composition, plunging into the cosmic atmosphere and carefree mood. In combination with documentaries, slideshows, atmospheric, space videos, commercial projects, etc.

Freyja (Valhalla)

Freyja is an epic tribal track featuring traditional nordic instruments and techniques such as tagelharpa, tribal percussions, lyre, shouts and other vocal techniques. Great fit for history and period documentaries, antropology projects, adventure and spiritual videos, experimental and fantasy proje...

Berserker

Berserker is an epic tribal soundscape featuring traditional nordic instruments and techniques such as tagelharpa, bone horns, tribal percussions, shouts and other vocal techniques. Great fit for history and period documentaries, antropology projects, adventure and spiritual videos, experimental an...

Saer (Viking Raid)

Saer is an atmospheric tribal soundscape with ritualistic and warlike ambience featuring traditional nordic instruments and techniques such as tagelharpa, bone horns, throat singing and tribal percussions and shouts. Great fit for history and period documentaries, antropology projects, adventure and...

Soothing Lullaby

Kanun is the lead instrument of this emotional track. It is perfect for use in lullabies for babies and sentimental videos. In addition to this, it may be used in relaxing videos, YouTube videos and travel videos.

Epilogue

‘Epilogue’ is exactly what its title suggests. I wanted to bring a closure to this musical exploration with a free improvisation, over a hypnotic set of bowed basses. I thought that it would be nice to finish this album with the feeling that it comes back to where it started, that is with the na...

Frozen Like the Winter

This is a rare song on the album. It talks in Greek about an occupying soldier with burning eyes, who though, is unable to look the occupied in the eye, afraid of feeling compassion. It is based on a groove that I wrote and improvised on and then sent to Dimitris Klonis. What I heard back from him w...

Deliberation Continues

Engaging background theme consisting of marimba, piano and strings. The track evokes a sense of curiosity and reflection.

Hidden Symmetry (Intro)

This is the first piece of the album, although not the first one that I started working on. I was writing short pieces for 6 double basses and this one seemed to fit right in what I was looking for as an intro to the album. It is all based on a single motif that slowly evolves through the counterpoi...

Wonderful Lullaby

Using kanun as its lead instrument, this is a world music sentimental track. Relaxing and nostalgic music, perfect for baby lullabies, travel videos, documentaries, meditation scenes, cafes and chillout areas.

The Baby Song

In this emotional track, Kanun is the lead instrument. Baby lullabies and relaxing videos can benefit from it. Furthermore, it can be used in documentaries, yoga lessons, cafes, and chillout areas.

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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