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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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African Trance Percussion

An exotic, trance-inducing percussive piece built around traditional african rythms that conveys pictures of tribal dancers and wilderness. It features African Donn Donn, Djembe, Flat Udu, Darabuka, Small derbuka and Yambu. Great fit for documentaries about Africa, movies, dance, travel videos, or a...

Emotional Interstellar Journey

instrumental space ambient music, made for electric piano, synthesizers and soundscapes. Best for space documentaries and films, science fiction and technology projects, specially in scenes with emotional and positive situations.

Pillars of Creation Nebula

Instrumental inspirational space ambient music, made for electric piano, synthesizers and soundscapes, best for space documentaries, relaxation, podcast, scifi topics in films and series, and other meditative and mystical topics.

Remember

Slow and nostalgic track featuring solo piano perfect for film or documentary underscore, inspirational content, and tv.

Christmas in Gliese 581 C

Instrumental inspirational ambient music made for synthesizers and piano electric, best for relaxing and peaceful situations in space documentaries and films, spa and clips.

Arab Percussions

You've just got back from a desert exploration and entered a town, suddenly, you hear some rythms from afar, as you seek their location, you stumble upon a traditional middle eastern percussion ensemble, grooving into a street market. Great fit for history and period documentaries, tourism advertis...

Desert Dream

A journey through arid lands, sand storms and old ruins. Arab women ornamental chants and traditional bone flutes gives this track its mystic and hypnotic character. Great fit for history and nature documentaries, travel show video, meditative and abstract videos, experimental projects, video games ...

Interstellar Drift

An electronic ambient journey throught the galaxies. Envision a space ship in the outter realms of the cosmos, drifting before majestuous stars, towering darkness and the unknown. Imagine vast areas of wilderness in the dawn of day. Great fit for space and nature documentaries, meditative and abstra...

Shamanic Viking Saga

Atmospheric tribal soundscape with shamanic atmosphere featuring traditional viking instruments including jaw harp, throat singing and hypnotic percussions giving you that nordic feeling. themes : magic, rite, war, tribal culture. Great fit for history and period documentaries, anthropology project...

Nowhere to Run (version 3)

A Motivational cinematic and emotional piano background track perfect for any film, documentary or trailer.

Nowhere to Run (version 2)

A Motivational cinematic and emotional piano background track perfect for any film, documentary or trailer.

Nowhere to Run (version 1)

A Motivational cinematic and emotional piano background track perfect for any film, documentary or trailer.

Organic Happy Acoustic Background

Happy, light and cute track featuring acoustic guitar chords, ukulele melodies, piano, strings and music box. Perfect for evoking tenderness, happiness, inspiration, motivation, positive energy and good feelings.

Arabic Mystery

Ambient track features a Clarinet playing a middle eastern-inspired melody over a bed of soft, sustaining strings and mystery voices.

Frozen Landscapes

Cinematic, awe-inspiring string swells, conveying feelings of awe, majesty, and respect for the natural world. Ideal for documentaries, trailers and media that depict vast, untamed environments.

Dark Cinematic Ambient Tension

Dark and mellow ambient cinematic texture/background for film, documentaries and slideshows. Subtle drone synths and a repetitive melody pattern creates a disturbing and tense atmosphere!

A New Dawn - (Atmospheric Cinematic Texture)

Dark and gloomy electronic ambient background, with rhythmic synth patters, and a subtle and optimistic piano melody. My intention was to make something suitable for use as background/underscore in various film/drama projects that have a melancholy and hopeful mood!

Brighter Dark - (Peaceful Optimistic Bright Background)

Peaceful and slowly evolving background music with an optimistic, bright and hopeful undertone. Ambient piano and electric guitars. Perfect as underscore for documentaries, film, and other media projects that need a little extra spark!

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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