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Top 25 Documentary television producers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 415 documentary television producers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,245 professional contacts across them, including 1,208 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers documentary television producers headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest documentary television producers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 393 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sharp Entertainment, part of Sony Pictures Television, is one of the biggest creative powerhouses in unscripted television production today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jupiter Entertainment has an enviable track record of creating successful, highly formatted series with outstanding ratings and strong renewals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Rasha Drachkovitch and Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch, unscripted powerhouse 44 Blue Productions is an award-winning producer of non-fiction and unscripted content whose…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), a business unit of Hearst Television, is an independent producer and distributor of original programming for TV stations, broadcast and cable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since launching in A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whether it’s an NAACP award-winning special about the Obama presidency, a juicy true-crime cable series, a home renovation show, an inspiring music anthology series, a highly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Warm Springs Productions team has over 30 years of comprehensive experience in the television entertainment business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Words + Pictures, founded by Connor Schell and Chernin Entertainment in 2021, is a production studio with a mission to produce high-end, culturally relevant nonfiction content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NorthSouth is one of America’s largest independent television producers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pantheon Media Group, formerly Asylum Entertainment Group, is a premier Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning production powerhouse dedicated to delivering groundbreaking content across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by industry veteran Lashan Browning as a joint venture with Paramount Global, Antoinette Media is a full-service production company specializing in authentic, mass-appeal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin founded Ark Media in 1996, and were joined by partner John Maggio in 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We make original media content; it’s really that straight forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an award-winning media company that works alongside top-tier talent to create serial television, feature-length films, branded entertainment, and publishing projects that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rock Shrimp Production NY LLC, is a partnership between celebrity chef and Executive Producer BOBBY FLAY and Executive Producer KIM MARTIN.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading worldwide content producer and distributor of all forms of unscripted programming, with a strong focus on producing original espionage, wildlife, history, science and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “3 Ball Entertainment is one of television's most prolific producers of reality and non-fiction programming, both for broadcast and cable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Television Production Company based outside of Washington DC, producing for networks such as Bravo, Discovery, MSNBC and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Authentic Entertainment is an Emmy Award-winning production company based in Burbank, Calif.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a production company with strong roots in documentary filmmaking, Langley Productions has a history of transforming the ethos and aesthetics of so-called “cinema verite” into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Engel Entertainment is a full-service television and film production company based in New York City that has been producing primarily documentary and non-fiction films and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Library Films is a premium documentary company helmed by Emmy-nominated director / producer Chris Smith.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Associated Television International has been successfully producing television series, specials and feature films for over three decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Chalk Media is an industry-leading production company widely recognized for its signature cinematic nonfiction storytelling style and authentic expression of the human…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: documentary television producers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names documentary television producers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of documentary television producers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name documentary television producers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Documentary television producers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 415 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among documentary television producers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “documentary television producers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names documentary television producers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among documentary television producers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,208 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Documentary television producers by metro
- Documentary television producers in Los Angeles67
- Documentary television producers in New York60
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names documentary television producers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many documentary television producers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 415 documentary television producers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sharp Entertainment, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most documentary television producers?
Los Angeles leads with 67 headquartered companies, followed by New York (60) and Brooklyn (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,208 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 415 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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