Best Portuguese documentary series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch documentary shows from Portugal, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for O Resto da Tua Vida

    O Resto da Tua Vida 2019

    A documentary about João André, a former actor in Morangos com Açúcar who now delivers pizzas.

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  • Poster for Isto é Gozar Com Quem Trabalha

    Isto é Gozar Com Quem Trabalha 2020

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  • Poster for 3 Women

    3 Women 2018

    A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.

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  • Poster for I Love Benfica

    I Love Benfica 2023

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  • Poster for The Conspiracy

    The Conspiracy 2024

    "The Conspiracy", a documentary series directed by António-Pedro Vasconcelos, is the result of a meticulous investigation that includes exclusive testimonies from protagonists who managed to achieve in less than 24 hours, something that many others had not achieved in 48 years. From the secret meetings to the key characters, we are shown the extraordinary conspiratorial process that began in the summer of 1973 and culminated in the early hours of April 25, 1974, with the overthrow of the Estado Novo and the conquest of freedom. The rest, as they say, is history.

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  • Poster for 2077 – 10 Seconds To The Future

    2077 – 10 Seconds To The Future 2018

    Where and how will we be in 60 years? The next decades will undergo the biggest and fastest transformation ever. In technology, in science, in the environment, in interpersonal relationships. We live in a kind of great accelerator of science, in which the pace of discoveries does not cease to amaze. In the last decades more scientific knowledge accumulated than in all the history of the Humanity. In 2077 this scientific knowledge will have doubled several times.

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  • Poster for Sr. Rui

    Sr. Rui 2024

    The story chronicles the life of Portuguese entrepreneur Rui Nabeiro, founder of Delta Cafés, set against the backdrop of his hometown, Campo Maior.

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  • Poster for Senhor Presidente - O Campeonato de Uma Vida

    Senhor Presidente - O Campeonato de Uma Vida 2024

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  • Poster for Clube da Felicidade

    Clube da Felicidade 2021

    An idealess comedian decides that the solution to find creativity is to move the city to a community village.

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  • Poster for F.C. Porto - The Special Ones

    F.C. Porto - The Special Ones 2024

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  • Poster for Terra Nossa

    Terra Nossa 2018

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  • Poster for Os Últimos Dias da PIDE

    Os Últimos Dias da PIDE 2015

    Two-part documentary on post-revolutionary Portugal's treatment of the former members of the dictatorship's secret police, the PIDE.

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  • Poster for Paulo Futre: O Primeiro Português

    Paulo Futre: O Primeiro Português 2022

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  • Poster for Ljubomir Stanisic - Coração na Boca

    Ljubomir Stanisic - Coração na Boca 2021

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  • Poster for The Call-Ups

    The Call-Ups 2025

    Paulo Futre and Joaquim Sousa Martins explore the private and personal life of Portugal's best soccer players. Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, João Félix, and Rúben Dias open up to us as never before to talk about soccer and their private life, the part you don't see on the pitch or even on social media. Let them amaze you. You already know the players, now meet the people.

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  • Poster for Planeta A

    Planeta A 2022

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  • Poster for the Network

    the Network 2020

    the Network will take care of the television. Log in and take control. Discover, in awe, the chaos where everything fits; and end up looking, desperately looking. It wants to put us in the mirror. Faced with our obsession. Of the absurd, occasionally visited by moments of salvation. A cyber-series between fiction and documentary about communication in the network age. May "the Network" be with you.

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  • Poster for Discoverers

    Discoverers 2021

    Portuguese researchers with extraordinary journeys open paths in the incredible adventure of the unknown.

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  • Som de Cristal 2015

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  • Poster for Vistos Para a Vida

    Vistos Para a Vida 2022

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  • Poster for Pela Estrada Fora

    Pela Estrada Fora 2022

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  • Poster for Lugares da Escrita

    Lugares da Escrita 2022

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  • Poster for Prova Rainha

    Prova Rainha 2023

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  • Poster for Teorias da Conspiração

    Teorias da Conspiração 2019

    Conspiracy Theories

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  • Sem Fazer Planos Do Que Virá Depois 2017

    In May 2017, "Amar Pelos Dois", in the voice of Salvador Sobral, gave Portugal its first victory at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the opposite of the song "festivaleira" but, in the voice of a charismatic and different interpreter between the different ones, the composition of Luísa Sobral made history.

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  • "Work in Progress" 2022

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  • Poster for Efeito de Estufa

    Efeito de Estufa 2022

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  • Poster for A Pide Leninha

    A Pide Leninha 2023

    The life story of Madalena das Dores Oliveira, the first woman to reach the rank of Brigade Chief of the PIDE (the Estado Novo secret police), who became known by the inhuman way in which she acted.

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  • Poster for Noite Sangrenta

    Noite Sangrenta 2010

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  • The last frontier, the Sea 2019

    "Mar, a Última Fronteira" its a series that explores the ocean around Portugal. Six episodes there we fallow scuba-divers diving from the North to the South and Islands in Portugal

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  • Poster for A Alma e a Gente

    A Alma e a Gente 2003

    Programa televisivo sobre a historia de Portugal. Cada programa, traça a biografia de um português notável, com a evocação da sua época e o esclarecimento da sua contribuição para o denominador comum que é a Pátria Portuguesa. Cada figura será recordada no cenário mais adequado, e no caso de figuras literárias será feita uma síntese da obra com a leitura expressiva de alguns trechos mais significativos.

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  • Poster for Vejam Bem

    Vejam Bem 2018

    The stories of the great Portuguese musicians of our time. The stories of those who make music told by their own voice. Between words, images and songs we see biographies of the great Portuguese musicians of our time.

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  • Poster for Brain God

    Brain God 2021

    Let's try to decode the mysteries of the most complex organ in the universe. Our last 20 years have gone from gigantic to the exploration of the human brain but from the dimensions that are there to our knowledge of a permanent enigma. Although there was no knowledge of it but impenetrability of humanity, it was a perception that there was a vast universe to discover. This international documentary series of four episodes attempts to decode the mysteries of the human brain.

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  • Poster for 5+

    5+ 2020

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  • Poster for Momentos Decisivos

    Momentos Decisivos 2021

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  • A Guerra 2007

    The documentary of excellence that chronologically covers 13 years of conflicts in the former Portuguese colonies. The Colonial War in detail like you've never seen before! In addition to a phenomenal work of historical framing, the documentary series “A Guerra” also combines the perspective of a journalist as the author himself pointed out: "My objective is to be able to contribute to historians dealing with this period". From the beginning of the confrontation in Angola to the front in Mozambique, don't miss this fantastic documentary which, as the director himself says, "It's essentially a global vision with the perspectives of those who lived through this period"

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  • Poster for 300 Dias

    300 Dias 2021

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  • Poster for Guided Tour

    Guided Tour 2014

    Guided Tour is a television and radio program about the treasures of the Portuguese cultural heritage. Treasures with recognized universal value, pieces that any western country would be proud to integrate into its heritage, and little known to the Portuguese. From a silver goblet with Mozarabic decoration and a thousand years old to a cloister that is referred to as a masterpiece of European Renaissance, passing through a collection of African art classified as one of the best in the world, the nature of objects, their context geographic location and historical time vary from episode to episode.

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  • Poster for Horizontes da Memória

    Horizontes da Memória 1996

    Horizontes da Memória is a Portuguese historical documentary television series about the History of Portugal. As of 2011, it airs on RTP Memória.

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  • A Bruma da Memória 1993

    Uma série apresentada pelo professor José Hermano Saraiva, o qual dá a conhecer alguns dos locais de maior importância histórica em Portugal. Através destas visitas, muitas são as obras de arte, as personalidades e os acontecimentos históricos ocorridos em localidades como Guimarães, Aveiro, Setúbal, Mafra e Tomar.

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  • Poster for Roteiros do Desconfinamento

    Roteiros do Desconfinamento 2021

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  • Poster for Marco Paulo

    Marco Paulo 2023

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  • Poster for Brilhante

    Brilhante 2023

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  • Poster for Portugal Secreto

    Portugal Secreto 2020

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  • Zig Zag 0

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  • Poster for lendas e narrativas

    lendas e narrativas 0

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  • Poster for Depois do Adeus

    Depois do Adeus 2013

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  • A Arte Elétrica em Portugal 2015

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  • Who Do You Think You Are? (PT) 2013

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  • Poster for Portugal e CR7

    Portugal e CR7 2023

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  • Encontros Imediatos 2008

    UFOs have some fondness for Portugal? The believe all the Portuguese said to have lived experiences of this nature, the answer can only be positive. Over the past years, people from all over the country and all walks of life say they have witnessed phenomena of this type. Based on the reports of witnesses directly involved and supported the comments of specialists from different scientific disciplines, "Encontros Imediatos" will reveal 13 of these controversial, dark, amazing and almost unbelievable cases. "Encontros Imediatos" is a documentary series that offers an unbiased view of the UFO phenomenon in Portugal, that neither believers nor skeptics will remain indifferent.

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  • Poster for Histórias que o Tempo Apagou

    Histórias que o Tempo Apagou 1994

    Série documental com autoria e apresentação do professor José Hermano Saraiva, revisitando em 45 episódios alguns dos mais marcantes episódios da História de Portugal.

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  • Poster for O Grande Safari do João Valentão

    O Grande Safari do João Valentão 1989

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  • O Tempo e a Alma 1971

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  • Poster for Conta-me História

    Conta-me História 2013

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  • All Aboard - Inside Eurovision 2018 2018

    Eurovision 2018 beyond what you've seen on television screens. What is the story of the first Eurovision Song Contest made in Portugal? You can see what the stage construction is, the rehearsals, the team work and the bustle behind the scenes. Unpublished are revealed about an unforgettable operation that its protagonists help to record.

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  • Roots 2023

    Over the course of 10 episodes, we go to the roots of the most iconic dishes from various regions of Portugal. In each episode, Chef Vitor Adão meets with protagonists of local gastronomy and cooks the region's specialties with them, always over the fire. In addition to the gastronomic theme, this series presents trips to some of the most beautiful and still unknown places in Portugal.

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  • Poster for Portugal, A Social Portrait

    Portugal, A Social Portrait 2007

    A series, by António Barreto, that portrays contemporary Portuguese society.

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  • Poster for As Ordens Militares e Religiosas em Portugal

    As Ordens Militares e Religiosas em Portugal 1994

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  • Poster for Guided Tour

    Guided Tour 2014

    Guided Tour is a television and radio program about the treasures of the Portuguese cultural heritage. Treasures with recognized universal value, pieces that any western country would be proud to integrate into its heritage, and little known to the Portuguese. From a silver goblet with Mozarabic decoration and a thousand years old to a cloister that is referred to as a masterpiece of European Renaissance, passing through a collection of African art classified as one of the best in the world, the nature of objects, their context geographic location and historical time vary from episode to episode.

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