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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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Inspirational Story Introduction

Friendly and uplifting introduction consisting of marimba, piano, strings and supportive elements. Can be perfectly used in documentaries, podcasts or other media seeking a warm and uplifting tone. The music is composed and produced to trigger curiosity and at the same time it leaves room for voice...

This Epical Event

Powerful, pathos, inspirational cinematic track with the use of string and brass sections, choir and orchestral percussion. This is an excellent choice for epic video, YouTube, action games, sports events, advertising and much more.

Unforgettable features

A slow composition of piano and strings, creating an atmosphere of feelings, memories, loneliness and a sad mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, dramatic, social videos, slide shows, etc.

Emotional insight

A calm piano composition that creates an emotional atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, emotional, social videos, animations, slideshows, YouTube content, etc.

Only the Ocean

Atmospheric, uplifting song that convinces with its breadth and confident mood.

Remaining Feelings

A calm piano composition that creates a sensual atmosphere and a sad mood. Combined with nostalgic, calm, sad, social videos, animations, slideshows, YouTube content, etc.

Please your family

A calm piano composition that creates a sensual atmosphere and an emotional mood. Combined with leisure, romance, social, commercial projects, animation, infographics, etc.

Wrong Experiment

by Muza
Dark trapped track is perfect for trailers, video games and cinema. Dark hybrid electronic music with mysterious dark synths, orchestral strings, electronic distorted bass and create a cinematic atmosphere in your video project

Sad Energy Tension Background

Energetic and suspenseful background track featuring bass synth, marimba, piano and strings. Perfect to use in games, documentaries or other productions in need of a driving tone.

Eastern Audio Logo

Audio logo with an Eastern sound. Consists of harp, marimba and a variation of Chinese and ethnic instruments.

Running With The Devil

High tension track to be used in film, documentary or any other production in need of a cinematic suspenseful tone.

It Never Ends

Tension track consisting of strings patterns gradually increasing in intensity. As the track builds, other elements are introduced to create a dense and ominous atmosphere. Perfect to use in films, games, documentaries or other productions in need of suspenseful background music with a cinematic qua...

Medical Documentary Music Tool

A quiet played piano, bells, arpeggios and synth pads creating the perfect music bed for your documentary. The combination of piano and bells creates a typical medical documentary sound but it can easily be used as a nice underscore in any kind of production, particularly nature or science themed to...

Under Pressure Ident

Suspenseful ident consisting of brooding rhythms, piano and synthesizers. Perfect to use in documentaries, investigations, news items, movies or games. If you are looking for an intro displaying a feeling of danger and urgency, this could work very well.

Overthinking Tension Background

A reflective and slightly suspenseful background track consisting of marimba, piano, strings and rhythmic elements. Ideal to use as background music in your documentary, podcast or other production seeking a high quality tense tone.

Doubting Decisions Background Loop

Background track with a slightly contemplating tone setting the perfect atmosphere for certain passages in documentaries, film or other productions.

Giants of the Deep Blue

A rich harmonious modern piano piece. With a soft bed of orchestral strings and brass.

Sad Piano Instumental

Sad Piano Instrumental is Extremely sad, slowly moving solo piano piece with string and other instrumental. Fantastic for Youtube, Podcasts, Films, Documentaries etc. Especially great for sad scenes.

Ambient Relaxing Piano and String Instrumental

Ambient Relaxing Piano and String Instrumental is Relaxing music for videos. Home is soothing relaxing music with piano, ambient , cello, violin, granular, flute and pads. Use: meditation film, yoga, nature, vlog, advertising, roadtrip and other beautiful film video projects. 6 minute royalty free ...

Go for it!

A hard hitting motivational rock track. positive and powerful, perfect for sport and projects that need that driving edge.

The Epicness

This powerful cinematic track uses piano, horn, string and brass sections, percussion and chorus. This is a good choice for trailers, teasers, historical movies and other projects.

Timelapse Ambient

A minimalistic atmospheric track using bells, arpeggios, pianos and a deep rhythm section for documentary, TV, background music, presentations, radio, marketing, business, promotions and many other projects.

This is Epic

Powerful, pathos, inspirational cinematic track with the use of string and brass sections, choir and orchestral percussion. This is an excellent choice for epic video, YouTube, action games, sports events, advertising and much more.

Space

Atmospheric, beautiful, deep sound that is perfect for video and slide show about space.

Romantic Epic

This is inspirational music using the sound of a full orchestra, piano and cinematic percussion.

Rising Cosmic Ambient Horror

Growing deep space sounds are very quiet in a very loud sound. Perfectly suitable for horror movies, movies about space, and more.

Waiting in Line

Positive tension bed featuring synthesizers, piano, marimba, bells and arpeggios. Perfect to use as background music in documentaries, corporate videos or other productions in need of light tension music.

The Contemplation Game Tension Cue

Suspenseful, dramatic and slightly melancholic background track featuring piano, pizzicato strings and various rhythmic elements. The track paints a picture of contemplation, doubt and reflection and works very well in documentaries, drama, or any other production in need of an original tense music ...

Doubting Decisions Background Loop

Background track with a slightly nervous contemplating tone setting the perfect atmosphere for certain passages in documentaries, film or other productions.

Dissolution (Cinematic Epic Action Drums Trailer Intro)

by Epikton
There are not many music tracks that grab attention from the beginning and last it for the end. However, this track is specifically created to satisfy your audience in that manner and give them goosebumps while building up to a powerful ending note. Potential use cases; epic movie trailer, film and...

Investigation Ambient

Background electronic music using the sounds of deep piano, bells and electronic glitch effects for video games, movies about the investigation, detective, documentaries.

Inspirational Music

Light, inspiring music with electric piano, harmonics, guitars, strings and electronic rhythm section. This track is perfect for corporate movies, documentaries and inspirational films, presentations, advertising, and more.

In Epical

Powerful, inspirational cinematic track with the use of string and brass sections, choir and orchestral percussion. This is an excellent choice for epic video, YouTube, action games, sports events, advertising and much more.

Heroic Epic Cinematic

A pathetic, inspirational cinematic track with the use of horn, string, brass sections and orchestral percussion. This is an excellent choice for epic video, YouTube, action games, sports events, advertising and much more.

The Background Is Mechanical

Industrial sounding background track consisting of various rhythmic elements. Piano and cello give the track a slightly reflective character. Perfect to use in corporate videos, games, documentaries or other productions that need an energetic and mechanical tone.

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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