Sleep films

Sleep history videos, made for your channel.

Long, calm documentaries for sleep history, mythology and bedtime-story channels: researched like a documentary, paced and mixed so nobody gets woken up. Below is a full 66-minute film, not a trailer. Skip to any chapter and listen.

Sleep 66:29 · 9 chapters

1177 BC: The Bronze Age World Before It Went Dark

A slow voyage through the last calm year of the Bronze Age. One low, even narrator at about 130 words a minute, no sudden sounds, a quiet loudness level, then ten minutes of sea as the picture dims, so the ending never wakes anyone.

Delivered with the thumbnail above, three title options, captions and chapters.

Want the first chapter of one for your channel, or the one you're launching? It's on us.

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Made for sleep, not just slowed down

One narrator, the whole way. A low, even voice at about 130 words a minute, with longer pauses between paragraphs than a normal documentary. The same narrator on every episode of your channel.
No sudden sounds. No stings, no music swells, no sharp effects: a single continuous ambience bed (sea, rain, a quiet room) under the narration.
A quiet, even master. Mixed to −16 to −18 LUFS with a narrow loudness range and peaks kept below −3 dBTP, so ad breaks don't jump out and the volume never creeps up mid-film. Every film is measured before delivery.
Pictures that drift, not cut. Composed stills that change every 12–20 seconds with slow camera moves and soft dissolves; motion only in the opening minute.
An ending that never wakes anyone. The last chapter slows down, then the picture dims while the ambience carries on for ten more minutes.
Still a real documentary. A researched, fact-checked script with a gentle story arc, so the people who stay awake keep listening.

What you receive

A 1080p MP4, typically 60–120 minutes, in chapters
An .srt caption file and a YouTube chapter list
A thumbnail and three title options in your channel's style
Script and storyboard to approve before anything renders

What it costs

Sleep films use 0.25 credit per minute, a quarter of a Standard documentary:

Plan	Price	Sleep minutes a month
Creator	$99/month	80 minutes
Growth	$249/month	200 minutes (two 100-minute films)
Studio	$599/month	500 minutes (five 100-minute films)

Billed monthly, renews automatically, cancel anytime. Credits can be mixed with documentaries in the same plan. Full pricing and billing details.

Questions

Can you match my channel's narrator and look?

We study your recent videos and thumbnails and match the pace, palette, chapter length and title style, and pick the closest narrator from our voice library. We don't clone voices.

Which topics work?

Ancient civilisations, lost cities, mythology, history of everyday life, nature and the sea: anything with a calm arc. We avoid graphic subjects for sleep films.

Will it be monetized?

That's YouTube's decision and nobody can promise it. We make each film original and researched rather than templated; see our guide to the rules.

Free sample

Hear your first chapter before you pay.

Tell us your channel, or the niche of the sleep channel you're launching. You get the whole first chapter of a sleep film made for it (about 6 minutes), plus the full script and storyboard, at the same quality as a paid film.

Free, one per person, for running channels and for channels you're about to launch. We onboard in small batches; samples arrive by email within 3 business days.