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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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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.

Baroque Strings

An uplifting string section that’s perfect for grand intros, historical documentaries and films, achievements and much more!

Conceptualizing

Calm background track consisting of marimba, piano and some rhythmic elements to create a sense of thoughtfulness.

Power Sashimis [Traditional Japanese]

A traditional Japanese styled royalty free track, with taikos, shamisen, shakuhachi and Koto. Best for travel videos,Japanese documentaries, nature and historical contents.

Shining Star Loop

30 seconds seamless loop instrumental peaceful ambient music composed for synthesizers, piano, sound efx and synth plucks and pads, ideal for relaxation, spa and yoga. Also great for space travel in documentaries, films, slideshows and tv series.

Blessings from Heaven Loop

30 seconds seamless loop instrumental peaceful classical and ethereal ambient music composed for strings, piano, soprano, choir and vocals, cello section and strings, ideal background for mystical and religious topics in productions. Also great for relaxing, spa and yoga.

Star Dreams Loop

45 seconds seamless loop instrumental peaceful electronic ambient music composed for synthesizers, piano, glocks and sound efx, ideal for relaxation, meditation, spa and yoga. Also great for contemplative and inspirational space and underwater scenes in documentaries and nature slideshows.

Interstellar Journey Loop

1 minute 20 seconds seamless loop Instrumental ambient music composed for synth pads, synth plucks, sound efx and ethereal pianos, ideal for relaxation, spa and yoga. Also great for space, wide landscapes and underwater images and productions.

Melancholy Unfolding

Short mellow background track featuring piano, strings draped in lush echoes and reverberation.

Heavenly Love Loop

40 seconds Instrumental ethereal classical seamless loop music composed for choir, piano, strings, soprano and upright bass, ideal for celestial and mystical topics in films, tv series, documentaries and backgrounds. Also great for yoga, spa and relaxation.

Elegant Classical Loop

Instrumental classical loop music composed for piano, strings and soprano vocals, ideal for elegant and calm, contemplative and positive situations. This music must be used as a loop background in productions, presentations and other media projects.

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...

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...

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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