User:AnemoneProjectors/List of EastEnders-related documentaries

Several documentaries have been made about EastEnders, usually broadcast on BBC Three. Since February 2010, Watch started repeating various EastEnders documentaries. Since then, they occasionally show documentaries on Saturdays and Sundays.

EastEnders Revealed
EastEnders Revealed is a factual entertainment programme that looks back at the storylines, characters and stars of EastEnders. It first aired in December 1998 as part of the new BBC digital channel (BBC Choice) line-up and last aired to date in March 2012. EastEnders Revealed was the only BBC Choice programme to last the entire life of the channel, and was carried over to its replacement BBC Three where it continued until 2012. It has been presented by Gail Porter, Harriet Saxton, Jayne Middlemiss, Edith Bowman, Colin Murray, Melanie Sykes and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

The episodes are 30 or 60 minutes in length and, on occasions, have been broadcast on the BBC's flagship channel, BBC One. This is usually after a major storyline has been taking place in EastEnders, for example when Leslie Grantham (Den Watts) returned to the show in 2003, when Wendy Richard (Pauline Fowler) left and when Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell) left.

EastEnders Greatest Hits
EastEnders Greatest Hits is a series which aired on BBC One with each episode with a runtime of 15 minutes. The series contained five episodes looking back at popular storylines.

EastEnders Xtra
EastEnders Xtra was an interactive entertainment series based on EastEnders. It was first available to viewers in February 2005, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of EastEnders. Television viewers could watch the show by pressing the red button on their television remote, at 8.30pm on Monday nights. The programme was presented by CBBC presenter Angellica Bell and was approximately 15 to 20 minutes in length. It was primarily aimed at younger fans of EastEnders. It featured games and interviews with cast members, looked behind the scenes and allowed viewers to take part in quizzes on their mobile phones. The series was produced by Simon Hall. The theme and music used within the show was a rocked up version of the EastEnders theme tune.

The series ran for ten weeks, featuring ten episodes. Each episode featured an EastEnders star as a co-presenter. In the first episode, Tracy-Ann Oberman who played Chrissie Watts explained that The Queen Victoria pub uses exterior and interior sets for filming. Perry Fenwick who plays Billy Mitchell took part in "Extractor", a part of EastEnders Xtra which asks cast members a series of questions. The other co-presenters were Nabil Elouahabi (Tariq Larousi), Pooja Shah (Kareena Ferreira), Jemma Walker (Sasha Perkins), Natalie Cassidy (Sonia Fowler), Ameet Chana (Adi Ferreira), Cliff Parisi (Minty Peterson), Joe Swash (Mickey Miller) and Mohammed George (Gus Smith).

EastEnders: Back to Ours
EastEnders: Back to Ours is a series which aired on BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button. The first series contains six episodes, made available over the course of 27 January–12 February 2015 as part of the show's 30th anniversary celebrations. On 18 September 2015, a second run of two episodes was announced, to be shown on 28 September and 2 October 2015. It returned for a third time on 1 January 2016 for a one-off special. It features several cast members, past and present, looking over their greatest moments on the show, in a format similar to Gogglebox. The first series attracted 2.8 million requests.

EastEnders: The Real Stories
EastEnders: The Real Stories is a series of six short episodes that was made available on BBC Three from 6 July 2018 to tie in with episode 5737, in which Shakil Kazemi's (Shaheen Jafargholi) funeral takes place after he is stabbed and killed. The episodes feature real people talking about their family members who were murdered.

EastEnders: Secrets from the Square
EastEnders: Secrets from the Square is a documentary series hosted by Stacey Dooley on BBC One. The programme was broadcast as a response to the COVID–19 pandemic which led to the suspension of production on EastEnders. The series includes Dooley interviewing cast members such as Adam Woodyatt, Letitia Dean, Diane Parish, Kellie Bright and Danny Dyer about their experiences on EastEnders.

Other documentaries
Since 1 December 2006, a new breed of behind-the-scenes programmes have been broadcast on BBC Three, and on BBC Red Button following the closure of BBC Three. These are all documentaries related to current storylines in EastEnders, in a similar format to EastEnders Revealed, though not using the EastEnders Revealed name. The include clips from the series and interviews with the show's cast and crew as well as TV critics such as Sharon Marshall. Documentaries have included:

Behind-the-scenes videos
A number of behind-the-scenes videos have been released online or as part of home video releases to tie in with a particular episode or storyline.