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Departures

2008–2012OLN (Canada)Documentary

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Two friends travelling for a year with a cameraman, shot with more care than the format usually gets.

Departures opens with a main title sequence of 61 seconds.

At 61 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

1 sequence330th most looked up of 479 in the 2000sIMDb ↗
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The opening titles

Season 1

61s

From the series' own channel. Added for the same reason as The Protectors — it kept surfacing as the wrong answer to other searches while being absent itself.

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