🚧 English Documentary // Rights-Cleared · 100 Hours 🚧

Technical Datasheet — English Documentary // Rights-Cleared · 100 Hours

Motivation

What is this dataset?

Rights-cleared English documentary video (~100 hours) with metadata and English subtitles.

Source catalogue is Content X Labs. Each title includes MP4 video plus sidecar subtitles and per-title metadata.

Who created it?

Packaged from the Content X Labs / Allrites rights-cleared catalogue for submission to Mozilla Data Collective.

Collection / funding

Commercial catalogue titles already cleared for this distribution. No new crowdsourced recording was commissioned for this package.

Composition

• Movies: 0

• Series episodes: 139

• Subtitle files: 123

• Total runtime: 100.46 hours (361644.0 sec)

• Release years: 2006–2025

• Declared locale: en

• Typical runtime: 3:38–1:55:12 (mean 43:22)

• Video bitrate: 3.2–49.3 Mbps (mean 15.1 Mbps)

Spoken language (audio)

• English (139)

Subtitle language

• English (79)

• English (closed captions) (44)

Countries of origin

• Lebanon (60)

• United States (57)

• Canada (5)

• United Kingdom (4)

• France (4)

• Bahamas (2)

• South Korea (1)

• Myanmar (1)

• Switzerland (1)

• Greece (1)

• Brazil (1)

• Portugal (1)

• unspecified (1)

Genres

• Documentary (136)

• Religion (51)

• Biography (7)

• History (5)

• Comedy (5)

• Drama (4)

• Music (4)

• Crime (3)

• Factual (3)

• Health (3)

• Horror (3)

• Sport (2)

• War (2)

• Culture (2)

• Romance (2)

• …plus 11 more

Ratings

• NR (57)

• PG (48)

• TV-G (8)

• TV-PG (8)

• PG-13 (7)

• TV-14 (4)

• G (3)

• TV-MA (2)

• M (1)

• R (1)

Video / audio profile

• Container: MP4

• Resolutions:

  • 1920x1080 (124)

  • 3840x2160 (14)

  • 3200x1800 (1)

• Frame rate:

  • 25.0 (81)

  • 23.98 (31)

  • 29.97 (20)

  • 24.0 (3)

  • 23.97 (2)

  • 30.0 (1)

  • 59.94 (1)

• Aspect ratio:

  • 16:9 (139)

• Audio:

  • stereo (104)

  • mono (34)

  • 5.1 (1)

Each content.csv row also includes bitrate, synopsis, director, cast, and tags.

Collection process

Titles were selected from a rights-cleared scripted-narrative catalogue (Tier-1 / Content X Labs). Metadata (title, year, rating, synopsis, language, country, genres, credits, and media technical fields) comes from the production catalogue database. Subtitle files are the catalogue sidecar captions/subtitles stored with each video, not ASR generated for this package.

No additional annotation campaign was run. Ratings, tags, and synopses are catalogue values and may be incomplete or inconsistent across titles.

Package structure

• README.md — package overview and directory layout

• datasheet.md — this technical datasheet

• metadata/content.csv — one row per movie

• metadata/series.csv — one row per episode

• metadata/subtitle.csv — subtitle rows joined to video via Filename

• metadata/schema.json — column names and types

• media/movies/ contains one .mp4 per title (path in content.csv Filename)

• subtitles/movies/ contains matching subtitle files (path in subtitle.csv)

Join path: content.csv.Filename = video path = subtitle.csv.Filename. Subtitle file location is subtitle.csv.Subtitle Path.

How to load

import pandas as pd
from pathlib import Path

root = Path("english-documentary-rights-cleared-100-hours")
c pd.read_csv(root / "metadata" / "content.csv")
subs = pd.read_csv(root / "metadata" / "subtitle.csv")
df = content.merge(subs, on="Filename", how="left", suffixes=("", "_subtitle"))
# video path: root / row.Filename
# subtitle path: root / row["Subtitle Path"]

Title inventory

• Born2Race (2019) — 1920x1080, 1:17:23

• Dollmaker: The Anatoly Moskvin Story (2021) — 1920x1080, 35:03

• Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells: The Need for Patient Self-Advocacy (2017) — 1920x1080, 49:32

• Sunday Sessions (2017) — 1920x1080, 1:29:34

• Tetsu Kono's Crazy Routine (2016) — 1920x1080, 16:31

• The Opium War (2019) — 1920x1080, 52:39

• Ancient Planet Trilogy (2020) — 1920x1080, 23:42

• Ancient Planet Trilogy (2020) — 1920x1080, 22:54

Full list:

Uses

Intended: ML research / evaluation on rights-cleared documentary video and subtitles.

Not intended: treating this corpus as openly licensed / public-domain video; re-hosting titles outside Mozilla Data Collective and the catalogue license; using tags or synopses as gold-standard labels without review.

Limitations

• Some catalogue tags are noisy or thematically mismatched to the title.

• A few country, director, or cast fields are empty.

• Subtitles may be captions rather than verbatim transcripts and may not cover on-screen text or songs.

• Sample packages (if marked above) contain a middle clip per title, not the full feature.

• Content includes commercially rated narrative films and may contain mature themes consistent with the listed ratings.

Distribution and license

Custom license — rights-cleared catalogue titles. Redistribution is limited to Mozilla Data Collective terms and any additional conditions on the listing.

Maintenance

This snapshot is generated from the catalogue export used to build the tarball. Updates require a new package build rather than in-place mutation of files already uploaded to Mozilla Data Collective.

Generated: 2026-08-28 23:52 UTC