Need music for documentary?

Hi, I’m Mik, one of TunePocket music composers. Music plays important role in modern documentary films. Documentary music spans many genres and can play either background role or deliver strong emotional impact.

I went though our extensive catalog of royalty free music for documentaries and picked my top 10 favorite, most popular soundtracks.

Watch the video below or jump straight to the track list.

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If you’re looking for more instrumental background music suitable for different kinds of documentary films, check out these collections:

Background music for nature documentary
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Browse through our entire catalog of royalty free music and search by mood to find perfect music to help you create the desired emotion in your film.

Top 10 best music soundtracks for documentary

• 1.

  On The Way To Eternity
  Epic cinematic orchestra score with inspirational and heroic feel for storytelling promotional video, documentary, game, commercial business use.

  This track is one of our Top 20 Most Popular Royalty Free Music downloads.

• 2.

  Piano Emotions
  Emotional piano and strings music with strong uplifting epic inspirational feel for promotional marketing videos, presentations, events, film, documentary, and commercial business use.

• 3.

  Romantic Ever After
  Warm acoustic piano, cello, and strings royalty free cinematic music score with uplifting romantic feel for sentimental video, vlog, wedding film, love story, and commercial business use.

• 4.

  Emotional And Motivational
  Inspirational royalty free acoustic indie pop music with uplifting emotional build up feel for inspiring storytelling video, motivational film, documentary, passionate vlog, and commercial business use.

• 5.

  Atmospheric Cinematic Soundscape Inspiration
  Inspirational instrumental royalty free acoustic indie pop music with uplifting cinematic buildup feel for inspiring storytelling video, film, documentary, motivational speech, and commercial business use.

• 6.

  Stomps Rock
  Powerful instrumental blues rock music cue with energetic, positive, and feel-good mood for promotional video, sport vlog, motivational film, documentary, game, power car advert, engaging ads, and commercial business use.

• 7.

  Future Intellect
  Robotic royalty free synthwave / retrowave music with retro futuristic technology feel for hi-tech promotional video, YouTube vlog, podcast, science documentary and commercial business use.

• 8.

  Ambient Piano Cinematic Electronica
  Calm royalty free electronica with cinematic piano and strings for reflective video, documentary background, and uplifting film scene, and commercial business use. Download unlimited royalty free music for videos.

• 9.

  African Sunset (Less Drums)
  Warm electronica instrumental music underscore (less drums edit) with reflective peaceful feel for promotional video, film, documentary, pensive vlog, and commercial business use.

• 10.

  Elevation
  Inspiring cinematic indie pop instrumental music cue with reflective uplifting feel for emotional storytelling video, film, vlog, and commercial business use.