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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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Uncertain Times Tension Cue

Pulses, drones and ticking make up a tense atmosphere. Perfect to use in your news item, documentary or any production in need of a light suspenseful tone. The track never gets overwhelming and is designed to easily blend in with other elements. My portfolio is protected by Identifyy. After you bu...

Glitch Technology

Atmospheric ambient track using short synthesized sounds, glitch and electronic rhythm section for infographics, slideshows, presentations and other projects.

For Epic

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.

Epicness

A powerful, epic, inspirational track using string and brass sections, tubular bell, piano and cinematic percussion to create trailers, action games, teasers, blogs, youtube and other your projects.

Epic Slow Music

Calm cinematic music using piano, orchestra and epic percussion. This track is a good choice for cool mo, trailer, teasers, presentations, timelaps and many other projects.

Epic Peaceful

Quiet (from the beginning) and powerful (from the second half to the end) epic track using pianos, drum loop, electronic arpeggios, string and brass sections, cinematic percussion. This is a good choice for advertising, trailers, action games and other your projects.

Epic Ambient

Relaxing music piano, harp and bells orchestra turns into a heroic calm music. It is perfect for the final epic movie, teaser, trailer and more.

Call Of Heart - Happy Love Story

by Berool
Creative title: Call Of Heart. Open your heart to memorable acoustic melodies. This music brings warmth and tenderness to wedding videos, romantic slideshows, love scenes, movie trailers, and advertisements. Light and delicately upbeat, this guitar melody is sure to affect any visual project you add...

Background Music

Positive, light, rhythmic music for corporate films, commercials and more.

Background Horror In Space

Dynamic, high-quality sounds of horror in space, which is perfect for horror movies, sci-fi movie about deep space, and more.

An Epicness

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.

Ambient Technology

Atmospheric ambient track using short synthesized sounds, glitch and electronic rhythm section for infographics, slideshows, presentations and other projects.

Ambient Synths

This track is created from the sounds of only the hardware synthesizers Roland JD-XA and Access Virus TI, including drums and effects! "Ambient Synths" is suitable for space, relaxation, documentary, slideshows and other projects.

Ambient Space

Atmospheric, quiet track using synthesized mute guitar, bright electronic sounds and cosmic effects. Suitable for relaxation, video about space, lounge and many other your projects.

Technological Ambient

Bright background music using arpeggios from synthesizer bells, short vocal samples, electronic sounds, rhythm section in the style of a deep house. This is a good choice for science, technology, advertising, presentations, blogs and other your projects.

Night Watcher

Very emotional and reflective epic track, big and humble in character. Accompanied by the piano and dressed with beautiful long and nostalgic strings, this track is ideal for cinematic momentum, documentary or wide epic cues.

Rise Again

Very heartfelt and melodic emotional epic track. Beautifully accompanied and supported by the bright grand piano, this track evolves into a wide symphonic orchestra piece full of emotions and adventure. Its somber beginning caries the track through lots of nostalgia, rather romantic and reflective, ...

Epic Trailer

Quiet (at the beginning), dynamic, powerful (in the final) track with accents of cinematic percussion, staccato string section, electronic arpeggio, brass and piano. This is an excellent choice for epic video, YouTube, action games, sports events, advertising and much more.

Epic Space

Atmospheric, powerful track with the use of string section, horns, chorus, piano, cinematic percussion and electronic arpeggios. This is a good choice for space, trailers, action games, web and many other your projects.

Choirs of the Gates of Heaven

Soft, relaxing, meditative and inspiring Original contemporary track made with Full Choirs and orchestra. The track is perfect for all kinds of projects from montages, films, movies, various soundtracks, video games, photography projects, religion based projects, presentations, timelapses.

Sad Reflective Cinematic Background

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Classical Soundtrack music, the mood is sad and emotional, and the play is plenty of expressiveness. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Then, the music gains expressiveness and emotion with the inco...

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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