Best Documentary YouTube Stats

@bestdoc · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Best Documentary channel overview

Best Documentary (@bestdoc) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2016. It has 8.4M subscribers and 2.3B total views across 3.5K videos, an average of 648K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 52K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 47K views. Over the last 12 months, Best Documentary published 74 videos (9% Shorts), and 14 of them (19%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Best Documentary gained 20K subscribers and 20M views, about 1.2M views a day.

How much does Best Documentary make?

Returbe estimates Best Documentary's YouTube ad revenue at $87K – $288K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.99 to $9.98, typically $5.49, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5.5K.

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Upload schedule

Best Documentary publishes about 48.9 videos a month. Based on its last 75 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (19% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Best Documentary's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Best Documentary's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Downfall of the Third Reich: UNCENSORED Archival History (1942-1945)3.2M views · Oct 9, 202667.3× typical views
• What Happens When Amish Teens Meet British Country Kids? Total Culture Shock1.2M views · May 13, 202624.6× typical views
• America’s Most Remote Home: Living 30 Years Beyond the Arctic Circle871K views · Oct 1, 202618.5× typical views
• Sicario School: How They Train for the Cartel842K views · Oct 10, 202617.9× typical views
• Syria - Jihadists up close752K views · Oct 10, 202616× typical views
• Pink Triangles: Homosexuals Facing Nazism709K views · Oct 2, 202615.1× typical views
• October 7 & Its Aftermath: Inside Hamas414K views · Oct 7, 20268.8× typical views
• Banned Footage | Inside the Amish Secret World5.2M views · Mar 10, 20258.1× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Best Documentary's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Inside Indonesia: Islam, Power and Democracy 🕌⚡23K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• The Police: Fame, Egos & Rock and Roll17K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• The Great Fracture: The Origins of Trump's America37K views · Nov 4, 20260.8× typical views
• Case Closed... Until His Family Fought Back | Michael Menson Case10K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Israel and Palestine, Understanding Both Sides of the Conflict44K views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• Northern India's Silent Crisis: A Border on the Brink17K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• They Invited the World to Their Commune via TikTok. It Backfired.29K views · Nov 2, 20260.6× typical views
• Therapy Gecko: How a Basement Stream Went Viral14K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• Left in a Burning Mercedes: The Fatal Ambush of Gagandip Singh22K views · Nov 1, 20260.5× typical views
• Venezuela's Underworld: EXCLUSIVE and INVESTIGATIVE Documentary66K views · Oct 31, 20261.4× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.5K videos from 374 channels in this niche. 13.4% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202.8×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 26.7×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 11.7×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 62.7×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Best Documentary or YouTube.