The Best Shipwrecks & Sunken Treasure Documentaries

Oceans - 28 free documentaries about shipwrecks & sunken treasure.

Start with 1623 Lost Galleon: The Hunt For The World's Most Valuable Shipwreck (51 min, Timeline), then Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes: Lost Beneath the Waves (44 min, National Geographic). All 28 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on shipwrecks & sunken treasure is Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson.

• 1623 Lost Galleon: The Hunt For The World's Most Valuable Shipwreck | Myth Hunters (51 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes: Lost Beneath the Waves (44 min, National Geographic)
• The Sinking No One Could Explain (18 min, Mustard)
• The Lost Sunken Shipwrecks Of Tudor Britain (52 min, Absolute History)
• The Lost Dutch Treasure Ships Off The Coast Of Australia | Search For Sunken Treasure (51 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Why Are There 1,000 Sunken Shipwrecks Around This Archipelago? (44 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Underwater Archaeologists Explore Island Of 1,000 Shipwrecks | Legend of Magdalen (45 min, Absolute History)
• Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship | Shipwrecks of America (44 min, National Geographic)
• Impossible Riches | Cursed Gold: A Shipwreck Scandal (44 min, National Geographic)
• North Sea Shipwrecks: The World’s Most Dangerous Underwater Cleanup Operation (44 min, Spark)
• The Bizarre Mummy Cat Found In A Junk Shop | Salvage Hunters (48 min, Absolute History)
• This Container Ship Snapped In Half, This Is How It Was Salvaged (44 min, Spark)
• Archaeologists Uncover 300-Year-Old Shipwreck That Changed Texas' History (44 min, Wonder)
• The Sunken 17th-Century Dutch Treasure Ships Found In The Great Barrier Reef (51 min, Absolute History)
• The Hunt For The Lost 6000 Shipwrecks Of WWII (52 min, Spark)
• Archaeologists Hunt For Sunken Treasure Within WW2 Shipwrecks (52 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Costa Concordia: The Biggest Salvage Operation Of All Time (44 min, Spark)
• Bismarck: Why Did Germany's Super Battleships Fail? (52 min, Spark)
• Inside The Wreck: The Safmarine Agulhas Disaster (44 min, Wonder)
• 150 Years Underwater: Raising A Sunken Ghost Ship In One Piece (44 min, Wonder)
• World's Most Dangerous Shipwrecks: The Toxic Secrets of Sunken Giants (134 min, Free Documentary)
• How Deep-Sea Divers Recover Sunken Wrecks From The Ocean Floor (46 min, Spark)
• Salvaging a Shipwreck That Killed Over 700 People (45 min, Wonder)
• How Salvagers Recover Tech Junk From The Depths Of Freezing Seas (48 min, Spark)
• 100,000 Tons Upright: Inside The Biggest Salvage In Maritime History (44 min, Wonder)
• I Discovered The WWII Kamikaze Plane Wreck In Okinawa: Life Of A Wreck Diver | Hobsessions (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Demolishing An Oil Tanker Wreck On A UNESCO Coastline (44 min, Wonder)
• Roatan's Sunken Shipwrecks | Reef Wrecks 104 (48 min, Love Nature)

Top-Rated Books About Shipwrecks & Sunken Treasure

1. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
3. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (4/5) - View on Amazon
4. Endurance by Alfred Lansing (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
5. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord - View on Amazon