Free High-Quality Documentaries YouTube Stats

@freehighqualitydocumentaries · Animals & Nature · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Free High-Quality Documentaries channel overview

Free High-Quality Documentaries (@freehighqualitydocumentaries) is a YouTube channel in the Animals & Nature niche created in 2017. It has 1.5M subscribers and 434M total views across 790 videos, an average of 549K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 39K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 6.9K views. Over the last 12 months, Free High-Quality Documentaries published 57 videos (23% Shorts), and 6 of them (11%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, Free High-Quality Documentaries gained 0 subscribers and 1.7M views, about 85K views a day.

How much does Free High-Quality Documentaries make?

Returbe estimates Free High-Quality Documentaries's YouTube ad revenue at $4.2K – $17K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.94 to $7.76, typically $3.88, 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 $3.9K.

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

Free High-Quality Documentaries publishes about 15.2 videos a month. Based on its last 57 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (40% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Free High-Quality Documentaries's best outlier videos

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

• Living 50 Feet Up in the Indonesian Rainforest409K views · Oct 19, 202659.4× typical views
• Inside the Most Dangerous No Man's Land on Earth | Free Documentary368K views · Sep 20, 202653.5× typical views
• HONG KONG: Life in the World's Densest City | Full Documentary157K views · Oct 8, 202622.8× typical views
• Wild Korea: Sea Women and Hidden Forests | Full Documentary41K views · Sep 19, 20265.9× typical views
• Why Crustaceans Run the Ocean | Full Documentary29K views · Oct 24, 20264.2× typical views
• British Columbia: Land of the Grizzly Bear | Full Documentary26K views · Sep 5, 20263.8× typical views
• Unlocking the Real Secrets of Our Deepest Forests | Full Documentary18K views · Sep 10, 20262.6× typical views
• Inside Nepal's Hidden Wildlife Paradise | Full Documentary17K views · Oct 3, 20262.5× typical views

Latest videos

11 of Free High-Quality Documentaries's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Cute But Deadly: Nature’s Most Adorable Predators108 views · Nov 7, 20260× typical views
• Hidden Thailand: Exploring the Secrets of the Isan Region | Full Documentary5.1K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• IQUITOS: The City Built to Float on the Amazon3.6K views · Nov 2, 20260.5× typical views
• Germany's Wild Forests: Lynx, Wolves and Wildcats | Full Documentary11K views · Oct 31, 20261.6× typical views
• Hidden Japan: Discovering Ancient Traditions in Kyushu | Full Documentary4.9K views · Oct 28, 20260.7× typical views
• Living Inside a Vertical Forest: The Future of Urban Architecture?2.9K views · Oct 26, 20260.4× typical views
• Why Crustaceans Run the Ocean | Full Documentary29K views · Oct 24, 20264.2× typical views
• Inside the Raw Reality of Marseille | Full Documentary7.3K views · Oct 22, 20261.1× typical views
• Hidden Secrets of the French Riviera Beyond the Glitz | Full Documentary2.8K views · Oct 21, 20260.4× typical views
• Living 50 Feet Up in the Indonesian Rainforest409K views · Oct 19, 202659.4× typical views

The Animals & Nature niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 7.1K videos from 797 channels in this niche. 20.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Franchement c'est ça (32K subs, best video 18.9×), Blackout Docs (106K subs, best video 191.2×), Belaya Nerpa (43K subs, best video 23.2×), Coco Verse (389K subs, best video 28.1×), Tout sur Rien (372K subs, best video 37.1×), Catzhub (50K subs, best video 297.5×).

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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 Free High-Quality Documentaries or YouTube.