Nutopia's first production was the 12-hour
America: The Story of Us series for
History US in 2010, which drew 5.7 million viewers upon its first episode . The high level drama documentary was combined with famous Americans describing what it meant to be American: and the show was introduced by President Obama, also including comments from Donald Trump, Meryl Streep, and Colin Powell [3]. The success of the programme led to further adaptations of the format, including
Mankind: The Story of All of Us and
Australia: The Story of Us, The British, Canada: The Story of Us . In 2025, Nutopia partnered again with the History Channel to produce Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny, with the first season premiering in April 2025 and the second season scheduled for March 2026. Hosted and executive produced by David Duchovny, the docuseries investigates covert government programmes, declassified operations, and historical mysteries revealed through newly released files, combining archival footage, expert commentary, and storytelling Nutopia’s upcoming projects include a 20 hour World War II documentary series, fronted by Tom Hanks, in partnership with A+E Factual Studios for The History Channel. The 20-part series will chart the war’s global scope and impact from major battles and pivotal turning points to social and political upheaval [39]. The series will use rare archives and expert narration to provide a comprehensive historical account. A&E Networks will distribute the series internationally. In 2015, the TV show announced the co-produced documentary,
Australia: The Story of Us. It was a regionalized version of the American television documentary series, which studied the history of the country. This included people, places and events that have shaped the country over the last 40,000 years. Towards the end of the year, the
Smithsonian Channel aired
My Million Dollar Invention.
NY Daily News referred to the series as an "ambitious 8 part series," which studies a number of historical inventions. The third installment of the decade-based documentaries was televised in 2015,
The 2000s: A New Reality. Nutopia also announced the creation of the documentary,
Finding Jesus. It studied new insights into the historical facts surrounding him and using new scientific techniques to study his life. Also in 2015, Nutopia produced the
Emmy Award-winning How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson, which also had a companion book of the same title and website
How We Get To Next. The show won an
Emmy for Outstanding Motion Design in 2015. Nutopia announced in late 2015 that they would be working on a TV series with
Bear Grylls. ''Britain's biggest adventures with Bear Grylls'' aired on
ITV and received positive reviews for studying the British landscape, including the Scottish Highlands and
Snowdon. In 2016, Nutopia and Bristow Global Media announced
Canada: The Story of Us for
CBC. Nutopia is also currently producing a six-part series on the history of
Africa, hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The series is being created in association with McGee Media. Nutopia produced the
National Geographic series
One Strange Rock, which premiered on March 26, 2018. The second season is set to premiere in 2019. Also in March 2018, Nutopia launched
Civilisations, an art history television documentary series co-produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. In May 2018, Nutopia's
The Great American Read launched on PBS. Hosted by
Meredith Vieira, the series sought to discover America's favorite novel, in which viewers could vote from a list of 100 finalists to determine "America's Best Loved Novel." The winner of the vote was
Harper Lee's "
To Kill a Mockingbird". In January 2019, it was announced that Nutopia's
Jesus: His Life will debut on
A&E on March 25. The series is told from the perspective of different biblical figures, scholars and historians, weaving together historical sources and cultural context to create a portrait of
Jesus. ==Notable productions==