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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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Uplifting Middle East Dance Party

Ethno oriental groove soundtrack. Instruments: zurna, kemance, kemani, tabla, santur, darbuka, dholak, ethnic hand percussion. This Authentic music is perfect for dance projects, middle east background videos, history, travel projects, documentaries, new about the middle east background and any ethn...

World Lounge Ethnic Chill

The ambient and relaxing composition with ethnic elements. This one is contemporary ethno electronic lounge track with oud solo, tabla, sensual vibraphone, ethnic oriental deep strings, warm bass and slow meditative groove. Mood of this track – chilled, relaxed, sensual, hypnotizing, and charming....

Discovery

This track combines influences of asia and middle eastern. Its very universal and a favourite in documentaries, travel videos or live shows.

Dynasty

A pop track with chinese elements and a rich arrangement. Groovy and driving feel. A catchy song as a hanger in documentaries, travel videos or maybe a movie.

Dance Of The Leaves

Hypnotic background music with evolving strings and a hypnotic epiano pattern.

Hi Tech Beauty

Versatile Pop with a mystical touch and urban rhythms. Evokes associations of luxury, beauty and the enthusiasm for technology.

Inspiring Beauty And Happiness

A sentimental and inspirational piano track with lush orchestral strings and percussion. Perfect for love, romantic and wedding videos, positive and motivational videos, beautiful landscapes, outer space, cinematic film projects, charity, homecoming, time-lapse videos, documentaries, TV, photo mo...

I Know You

The feeling of engagement when you feel familiarity with something or someone. Perfect for an advert or poignant production piece.

Crazy Emotional Modern World Music

World ethno groove soundtrack with ethnic voices elements. Great choice for ethno dance show, travel projects, documentaries and any ethnic oriented presentation. Ethnic Instruments: zurna, kemance, kemani, oud.

Flight of the Bumblebee SHORT VERSION

Very energetic and intricate classical piece by famous composer Rimsky Korsakov. Great for web videos, documentaries or anything requiring lively, quirky, comical music. Also great as children's music!

Chinese Ways

Restrained and melodic asian fusion track with exotic sound and a a slightly melancholic touch. Suits perfect in documentaries, travel videos or games.

Inspiring Triumph

A beautiful and inspiring track that starts with piano and some ambient pad textures. It continues to grow and evolve and comes to a dramatic peak around 1:30 as strings and percussion join in. Perfect for any inspirational projects, film, tv, slide shows, youtube videos and anything needing emotio...

Black Rain

Sedate song with intense atmosphere. Perfect background track for architecture, art, science, technology, slideshows and much more.

Just an Illusion

Just an Illusion (Relaxed Acoustic Meditation) music track with futuristic sound, featuring a synthesizer, acoustic guitar, bass, bandoneon and drum beats. It is good for the cinematic scenes, documentaries, sound installations, as a backdrop to advertisement and presentations as well as yoga and me...

Clouds - Loop

Positive, uplifting and motivational track with beautiful synthetic piano, bells, bass, leads, pads, cool synths and drums. Perfectly suitable for background music, video projects, websites, games, podcasts, commercials, soundtracks, films and motion graphics. I hope you like it.

Living On The Edge - Loop

This is a high energy rock track. Perfectly suitable for action scenes, extreme sports, games, dynamic video projects, websites, background music, presentations, commercials, soundtracks, motion graphics, podcasts and more. I hope you like it.

Ethnic Oriental Dance

World ethno groove soundtrack with modern elements. Great choice for travel projects, dance projects, documentaries and any ethno oriented presentation. Acoustic instruments: violin, kemani, kemance, darbuka, zurna.

Cinematic Emotional Epic Drama

Powerful dramatic orchestral track. Perfect for cinematic projects, videogames timelapse video and more!

Emotional Arrival

Epic, dramatic, orchestral track. Perfect for your trailers, films, video games and other cinematic projects!

Epical Time

Cinematic background audio track for movie trailers, computer games, success stories, sport video, motivational media and many more.Featuring orchestral instruments, violin, viola, cello, double bass, French horn and piano.

Technology Future Background

Background track in future house style. Perfect for any technology, hi-tech, innovation project. Instruments features: inspired synths, leads, and pads. Mash up between the styles of electronica, house and glitch.

Authentic Oriental Arabian Middle East

East authentic background ethnic track with ney flute, oriental strings, oud and darbuka. Perfect for middle east background videos, history, travel projects, culture, desert nature videos, documentaries.

Eastern Exotic Journey

Ethno authentic track with oriental strings and darbuka. This eastern music is perfect for middle east background videos, history, travel projects, documentaries and more.

Ambient Ethno Relax

The ambient and relaxing composition with ethnic elements. Featuring sitar, oud, tabla and relaxing synths pads. This background is perfect for corporate media, motivational videos and any project needing enthic modern soundtrack.

Magic Island

Mysterious cinematic soundtrack with hang drum, marimba, xylophone and other percussions. Perfect for documentary, discovery channels, travel movie and more. Suitable for geographical videos or anything that needs a ethno/world music percussions background. There are two versions. 1. Magic Island ...

Deep Ambient Future

Perfect for any technology, hi-tech, innovation project. Main Genre: future electronic music, inspire ambient, ambient slideshow, digital ambient, documentary ambient soundtrack, ambient presentation, commercial ambient montage, inspirational ambient music, dreamy ambient montage, minimal ambient, ...

India Inspirational Corporate

Motivational track of Indian music. Great choice for travel projects, documentaries, dance projects and any ethnic oriented presentation.This track features tradition instruments as sitar, tabla, santur, dholak.

Discovery Adventure

Mysterious cinematic soundtrack with marimba and xylophone. For documentary, discovery channels travel video and more.

World Ethnic Dance

World ethno groove soundtrack with modern elements. Great choice for travel projects, dance projects, documentaries and any ethno oriented presentation. Acoustic instruments: violin, kemance, oud, darbuka.

East World Indian Meditation

Worldmusic background motivational track. Great choice for travel projects, documentaries and any ethnic oriented presentation. Also suitable for meditation and nirvana's mood. This track features tradition instruments as sitar, tabla, bansuri, santur, dholak, oud, kemance.

Jungle World

Epic tribal background/beat track, contains huge of different percussion. Suitable for geographical videos or anything that needs a ethno/world music background.

Drama

Hybrid epic dramatic orchestral track. Perfect for your trailers, films, video games and other cinematic projects!

Eastern Arabic

East oud melody with oriental strings and darbuka. This Authentic music is perfect for middle east background videos, history, travel projects, documentaries, new about the middle east background and more.

Indian Language of Rhythm

Motivational track of Indian music with Konnakol elements. Konnakol (also spelt Konokol, Konakkol) is the South Indian or carnatic vocabulary of vocal syllables used to create rhythmic compositions. Great choice for travel projects, documentaries, dance projects and any ethnic oriented presentatio...

Ethnic Dance

Authentic dance track. Great choice for travel projects, documentaries, commercials, ethno oriented presentation and more. Instruments: kemance, kemani, zurna, darbuka, dholak.

India

Motivational track of Indian music. Great choice for travel projects, documentaries, dance projects and any ethnic oriented presentation.This track features tradition instruments as sitar, tabla, bansuri, santur, dholak.

Middle East Party

Oriental background world music groove. Great choice for travel projects, documentaries, commercials, ethno oriented presentation and more. Instruments: zurna, baglama, saz, deep oriental strings, santur, darbuka, dholak, ethnic hand percussion.

Tea Time

This is a dynamic, energetic world beat instrumental which includes indian percussion, indian flute, and electronic elements.

Lagrima short version

A recording of Francisco Tarrega’s ‘Lagrima’. It has a gentle and relaxed mood making it great for tranquil and natural settings.

Lagrima

A recording of Francisco Tarrega’s ‘Lagrima’. It has a gentle and relaxed mood making it great for tranquil and natural settings.

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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