''MSNBC Documentaries'' is the

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of a series of

documentaries A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

co-produced by

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and

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

. Broadcast on MSNBC, each documentary is given its own title to broadcast under (e.g., ''Lockup: Return to Pelican Bay'') or has been produced under one of the titles

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. Compared to competing networks, MSNBC airs documentaries on a daily basis and on weekend afternoons and evenings. In 2012 and 2013, and again in 2016, weekend airtime for MSNBC Documentaries was reduced to make room for newer weekend political news talk shows, relegating documentary series to weekend evenings. In 2020, NBC News Studios revived MSNBC Films as a unit for feature-length documentaries.

Program titles

Distributed under MSNBC Documentaries

* ''Headliners and Legends'' * ''MSNBC Reports'' * ''MSNBC Investigates'' * ''

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'' * '' Lockup'' * ''

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'' * ''Warrior Nation'' * ''Hooked'' (''Tattoos Head to Toe'' and '' Muscle Women'') * ''Caught on Camera'' * ''The Assassination of Dr. Tiller'' * ''Hubris: Selling the Iraq War'' * ''Why We Did It''

Distributed under MSNBC Films

* '' The Way I See It'' (2020) * ''

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'' (2021) * ''Four Seasons Total'' (2021) * ''

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'' (2021) * '' Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11'' (2021) * ''Love & The Constitution'' (2022) * ''Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets'' (2022) * ''The Turning Point'' (2022)

Hosts

The program has multiple hosts, including

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Lester Holt Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''Dateline NBC''. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of ''NBC Nightly News'' following the ...

Matt Lauer Matthew Todd Lauer (; born December 30, 1957) is an American former television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. After serving as a local news personality in New York City on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the ne ...

, and

Stone Phillips Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) is an American television reporter and correspondent. He is best known as the former co-anchor of ''Dateline NBC'', a news magazine TV series. He also has worked as a substitute anchor for ''NBC N ...

; it does not have a single consistent host, and certain episodes only have a

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throughout.

References

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