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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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Documentary

Background music for documentaries, voiceover, nature videos, animals, travel videos, movies, youtube videos and many more!

Facing Challenges

Suspenseful background track featuring piano, strings and light percussion. Towards the middle a choir is introduced to enhance the tension some before ending with a subtle piano motif.

Let Go Of Fear

Ambient Track – ambient, motivational, inspirational, track that includes beautiful sounds of piano, electronic pad, pluck, and guitars and drums. Full of the inspirational and beautiful ambient atmosphere.

Battle Field (Motivational Cinematic Piano)

“Motivational Cinematic Piano” is a powerful track with a cinematic and motivating vibe. the track is filled with piano, strings, war drums and many more. perfect for promotional videos, commercials, advertisements, movie trailers, film scores, TV ads, YouTube videos, corporate presentations,...

Modern Africa

Modern Africa is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

African Story

African Story is a special music background track mixing African sounds and rhythms (Kalimba, Djembe, African percussions) Mood: Inspirational, beautiful, emotional, peaceful, soundscape, atmosphere, ambient.

Show Me The Way

Show Me The Way is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

Waves and Sand

Waves and Sand is a happy, uplifting, catchy, bouncy, and sunny African world music with a groovy beat and African ethnic instruments. Perfect for travel projects, culture videos, children's projects, documentaries, and summer commercials.

Serenity

A slow and gentle track to ease your stress. Perfect for nature, nostalgia, relaxation, meditation, YouTube and much more.

Cinematic Documentary Background

A cinematic unobtrusive background track featuring piano, percussion, guitar, strings, synths and percussion. Works well for documentaries, movies, product presentations, explainer and technology videos, etc.

Evening Relaxation

A gentle and relaxing track with a hypnotic feel. Perfect for calming scenes, nature, mindfulness, relaxation, and much more.

Epic Africa

An uplifting and epic African track with balafon, West African and Bulgarian choirs, balafon, traditional African and epic percussion, flute, kalimba and vocal chants. Great for travel videos, advertisement, vlogs, documentaries and anything africa themed really. Available in Full, Loop and 60 seco...

Abstract Sad Background

Calm and sad background track featuring piano, marimba, celeste and more. This piece has been produced to work supporting narration and other elements within a media production.

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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