Documentary Central YouTube channel stats and outlier videos
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| Subscribers | 1.1M |
|---|---|
| Total views | 129M |
| Videos | 982 |
| Average views per video (est.) | 68K |
| Country | AU |
| Language | EN (est.) |
| Created | 2016-02-23 |
Niches: True Crime (faceless), Documentary.
Best outlier videos
Uploads that beat this channel's own median views, strongest first.
| Video | Outlier | Views | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| What It's Really Like to Work Inside an American Jail | The Insider: Reggie Yates | DC | 16× | 454K | 2026-09-30 |
| Inside The First Impact | The 9/11 Chronology | EP 1 | 14× | 407K | 2026-08-31 |
| The Initial Unfiltered Emergency Records | The 9/11 Chronology | EP 2 | 13× | 373K | 2026-09-01 |
| The Secret Double Life of Illegal Graffiti Writers | Duality: A Graffiti Story | 10× | 300K | 2026-08-20 |
| "He's Not Your Average Billionaire" | Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man | 10× | 298K | 2026-09-09 |
| The Engineering Behind NYC’s Underground Steam Pipeline | NYC Revealed | 8.2× | 241K | 2026-09-10 |
| Kill Every American | Full Episode | Osama Bin Laden: The Inside Story | EP 3 | 7.4× | 207K | 2026-10-15 |
| How a Single Soda Can Brought Down a Commercial Airliner | Mayday Air Disaster | DC | 6.8× | 190K | 2026-07-24 |
| How Saudi Anti-Narcotics Busts Multi-Million Dollar Rings | The Saudi War On Drugs | 6.4× | 197K | 2026-09-02 |
| The True Story of Chernobyl | The Chernobyl Disaster | FULL EPISODE | EP 1 | 6× | 167K | 2026-10-06 |
Latest uploads
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Repeatable pattern
No title shape stands out across the last 100 uploads of Documentary Central, so results here rest more on the topic of each video.
Content map
What the last 100 indexed uploads look like, by length.
| Format | Uploads | Median views | Median outlier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 to 60 minutes | 78 | 9.6K | 0.3× |
| Over 60 minutes | 22 | 54K | 2.2× |
Levers to test
- Over 60 minutes did best here, at 2.2× against 0.3× for 20 to 60 minutes. Start with that format.
- The channel posted about 20 uploads a month over its last 30 uploads. Plan a pace you can hold for the same stretch.
These come from the channel's public numbers. They show what went with better results, not what caused them.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does Documentary Central have?
Documentary Central has about 1.1M subscribers, from the public count YouTube shows.
How often does Documentary Central upload?
About 20 uploads a month, going by the last 30 indexed uploads.
What is the best recent video from Documentary Central?
"What It's Really Like to Work Inside an American Jail | The Insider: Reggie Yates | DC" reached 16× the channel's usual views, the strongest of the uploads we hold.
Can I see the age, gender or income of the Documentary Central audience?
No. YouTube keeps audience details private to the channel owner in YouTube Studio, and the public API does not share them. TubeMind does not guess them.
Public statistics from the official YouTube Data API; averages and multipliers are TubeMind estimates, see how scores work. Open Documentary Central on YouTube.