Documentary Central YouTube Stats

@dococentral · Film, TV & Anime · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Documentary Central channel overview

Documentary Central (@dococentral) is a YouTube channel in the Film, TV & Anime niche created in 2016. It has 1.1M subscribers and 124M total views across 943 videos, an average of 132K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 35K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 20K views. Over the last 12 months, Documentary Central published 63 videos, and 19 of them (30%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Documentary Central gained 10K subscribers and -6.6M views, about -549K views a day.

How much does Documentary Central make?

Returbe estimates Documentary Central's YouTube ad revenue at $48K – $223K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.5 to $7, typically $3.5, 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 $3.5K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Documentary Central publishes about 31.5 videos a month. Based on its last 63 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (16% of uploads), usually around 11:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Documentary Central's best outlier videos

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

• What It's Really Like to Work Inside an American Jail | The Insider: Reggie Yates | DC421K views · Sep 30, 202621.3× typical views
• "He's Not Your Average Billionaire" | Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man269K views · Sep 9, 202613.6× typical views
• The Engineering Behind NYC’s Underground Steam Pipeline | NYC Revealed240K views · Sep 10, 202612.1× typical views
• Kill Every American | Full Episode | Osama Bin Laden: The Inside Story | EP 3212K views · Oct 15, 202610.7× typical views
• The True Story of Chernobyl | The Chernobyl Disaster | FULL EPISODE | EP 1167K views · Oct 6, 20268.4× typical views
• Why Saltwater in the Fuel Tank Almost Killed 309 Passengers | Mayday Air Disaster | DC162K views · Sep 6, 20268.2× typical views
• How Overconfidence Ended in Disaster | Mayday Air Disaster | DC141K views · Oct 9, 20267.1× typical views
• The Fake War Hero Behind a Deadly Airport Collision | Mayday Air Disaster | DC132K views · Sep 25, 20266.6× typical views

Latest videos

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

• Why Pilots Couldn’t Find the Runway in Kathmandu | Mayday Air Disaster | DC3.8K views · Nov 6, 20260.2× typical views
• Inside America’s Toughest Prison | Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald | EP 18.3K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• Inside a US Marine Patrol Base in Afghanistan | Ross Kemp: Back on the Frontline3.4K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Inside the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami That Changed Everything | Code Red5.3K views · Nov 3, 20260.3× typical views
• Who REALLY Controls the USA? | Who Rules America? | EP 13.5K views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views
• Cartel Smuggling Tricks Border Officers See Every Day | BorderForce USA8.7K views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• The First US Airline Fatality in 9 Years | Mayday Air Disaster | DC69K views · Nov 1, 20263.5× typical views
• How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Society | The Age of AI3.2K views · Oct 31, 20260.2× typical views
• Why Pilots Couldn’t Stop the Plane From Diving | Mayday Air Disaster | DC20K views · Oct 30, 20261× typical views
• Longest-Serving Female Inmate in Indiana | Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald | EP 212K views · Oct 29, 20260.6× typical views

The Film, TV & Anime niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 21K videos from 1.6K channels in this niche. 15.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 14K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.5 to $7.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: 泡芙剧场PuffDrama (108K subs, best video 69×), Memelogyz (133K subs, best video 191.2×), Le Mec (205K subs, best video 132.1×), HSN Explains (24K subs, best video 71.3×), CrispyTheory (86K subs, best video 689.5×), Swagger Exposed Shorts (133K subs, best video 93.4×).

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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 Documentary Central or YouTube.