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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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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!

Ambience Nature Meditation Music

This is the ambient positive track. Item has space sun atmosphere for relevant videos. Imagine how world wake up after winter. This one perfect for landscape, timelaps videos, for relaxing time, sleeping. And of course, for films and etc. Including 2 versions: 1.Main Version- -2:09 2.Short Version ...

Endless

Beautiful simple ( Sad/Happy ) cinematic theme featuring piano.

Small Fairy Mound, Big Fairy Mound - Celtic Traditional

Instrumental traditional celtic tune from 1700, made for guitar, tin whistle, uilean pipe and fiddle, great for nature documentaries and films in bucolic and rural scenes in Ireland, Scotland and other celtic countries.

Dreamscape

Dreamy and reflective melancholic background/texture. Deep and dark sounding repetetive sub bass, with subtle ambient electric guitars and synths on top. This track will work nice as background/underscore in projects that are dark and melancholic!

Reflections

Dark and melancholic synths with a dreamy and mellow piano on top. Slow and smooth build up. No drums or beat! This music is perfect as an underscore and background for film, documentaries, tv drama and other projects that have a melancholy mood!

Drone Ambient Soundscape

Minimalistic drone ambient track with slow and subtle harmonic variations. The relaxing and meditative mood of this track is perfect for: documentary, relaxing video, nature or space video, majestic and panoramic landscapes, meditation background and much more.

African Documentary

Exotic tune that brings up images of Africa. Featuring Kora, the african harp, Djembe and other african percussions and balafon, the african marimba.

Healing Flowers from Nature

Inspirational contemplative new age music made for traditional asian instruments and orchestra, very nice music for relaxing, spa, meditative and spiritual environments, also great for travel and ethnic topics in films and tv series and documentaries.

Emotional Dramatic Trailer

Emotional, dramatic, sad and tragic cinematic track, perfect for documentaries, drama trailer and teaser, nostalgic projects and more.

Dramatic Documentary Trailer

Emotional and dramatic cinematic track, perfect for documentaries, drama trailer and teaser, nostalgic projects and more.

Emotional Trailer

Emotional, dramatic and hopeful cinematic track, perfect for documentaries, drama trailer and teaser, nostalgic projects and more.

Lonesome Night

A quiet, gentle and repetitive piece of music, with a sad and melancholy mood. Instruments in use: piano, synths, strings and some background layers of drones and disturbing elements. Will work fine as background music in television, movie, documentary, podcast, video and anything that needs a li...

Chasing Shadows

An airy, ambient royalty free cinematic theme, with a heartfelt piano, guitars, strings, and distant drums, best for documentaries, erotic, or intimate scenes.

Now I Leave

A slow, ambient royalty free cinematic theme, with lush strings and an airy piano melody, ideal for documentaries, landscapes, or sad/romantic film scenes.

Thinking Back

Calm background music in slow tempo with sad reflective emotional atmosphere. Perfect as underscore for documentaries, film, radio, montages and many more. Instruments: Piano, Violins, Cello, Double Bass, Woodwinds, Synths

Positive Soft Nature

Instrumental music made for piano and strings. The style is Classical Soundtrack music and the mood is positive with some emotion. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Later, the music increases emotion and positiveness with the incorporation of strings and orch...

Calm Background Ambient

Instrumental music made for piano, synth pads and soundscapes. The music is ethereal, calm and relaxing. the mood is positive and peaceful. This music is a perfect background for healthy and relaxed topics, also for nature documentaries, and other projects with similar relaxing ethereal topics and i...

Relaxing Dreams

Instrumental music made for piano solo. The style is Soundtrack music, and the mood is calm and relaxing. The rhythm is slow and the music is plenty of expressiveness in the play. This music is a perfect background for movies and tv series with romantic and slow motion scenes with sentimental and em...

Dramatic Cinematic Sadness

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Soundtrack classical music and the mood is sad and mournful. The music starts with the piano palying the main notes of the composition. Later, the music incresases the dramatic intensity with the incorporation of the additional orchestral...

Epic Nature

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Soundtrack and the mood is energetic and powerful, with some sentimental feelings. The music starts with the piano, playing the main notes of the composition. Then, the music increases the energy with the entrance of the orchestral instru...

Sentimental Cinematic Upbeat Trailer

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Soundtrack Classical music and the mood is inspiring and sentimental, with some achievement and success feelings. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Later the music gains energy and positiveness wit...

Classical Piano Waltz of Butterflies

Instrumental music made for piano solo. The style is classical waltz piano music and the mood is lively and funny. the rhythm is light and steady, with a dynamic play. This music expresses the gracious presence and action of nice butterflies in nature, and fits perfect for funny scenes and situation...

Magical Quiet Classical Waltz

Instrumental music made for piano, cello and strings. The style is a mix between classical waltz and soundtrack music, and the mood is sentimental with some melancholic and magical feelings. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Then, the cello and strings are in...

Journey Through the Oriental Prairies

Inspirational contemplative world music made for traditional asian instruments and orchestra, ver nice music for relaxing and spiritual environments, also great for travel and ethnic oriental topics in films and tv series and documentaries.

Lotus Flower Fields in Asia

Inspirational contemplative world music made for traditional asian instruments and orchestra, ver nice music for relaxing and spiritual environments, also great for travel and ethnic topics in films and tv series and documentaries.

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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