# Documentary file matching

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208 "2020-07-16T16:35:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![JaMike\_Richardson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JaMike\_Richardson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JaMike_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/1 "2020-07-16T16:35:58Z")

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I have several episodes and am trying to match this series:

> **["Air Aces" George Beurling (TV Episode 2012) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2877462/?ref_=ttep_ep2)**
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> Directed by Nigel Levy. With Adam Drew, Tom Machell. Canadian George Beurling broke every rule in the book yet became one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War II. A loner and a social misfit, Beurling's disdain for protocol branded him an...

It does not exist that I can find in TheTVDB. I’ve tried many types of naming in both movie and series libraries and it doesn’t seem to be able to match.

I’ve tried:

MOVIES  
Using series year - George Beurling (2012).mkv  
Using episode year - George Beurling (2013).mkv  
Using series year - Air Aces George Beurling (2012).mkv  
Using episode year - Air Aces George Beurling (2013).mkv

SERIES  
Air Aces (2012)  
-Season 1

- -Air Aces S01E01 George Beurling.mkv

Am I boned here? Suggestions?

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/2 "2020-07-16T16:44:00Z")

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It doesn’t exist anywhere.

Put it in your Documentaries place - Movies:  
Fix Match/Search Options/Agent/Personal Media. \<—Plex will stop trying to match it.

You can then Hand Edit.

or

You can create an Other Videos Library as a place to put lost travelers:  
(I’m a Documentary/Weird Stuff Guy myself)

 ![A Merry Go Round Broke Down-89](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/6/d/6da97c391cb42d5eb6bc23ef0ddb89c2629b6310.jpeg)

Just name the file what it is - grab an image from IMDB and the description - a few edits and there you go.

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**Author:** ![JaMike\_Richardson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JaMike\_Richardson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JaMike_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/3 "2020-07-16T16:45:18Z")

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I can’t somehow match it to the imdb listing I linked? How is it in imdb yet unable to be matched?

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/4 "2020-07-16T16:46:21Z")

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Nope…

IMDB uses TMDB for all it’s metadata - if it’s not on TMDB - it’s unmatchable.  
Fixing it - either way - only takes a moment.  
IMDB has everything you need to ‘create’ a Personal Media/Other Videos item very quickly.

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**Author:** ![JaMike\_Richardson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JaMike\_Richardson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JaMike_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/5 "2020-07-16T16:48:03Z")

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You mean this TMDB?

> **[Season 1](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46395-air-aces/season/1)**
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> Get more information about Season 1 on TMDb.

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/6 "2020-07-16T16:50:41Z")

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Well - there’s another way then… in fact there’s yet another:

[https://thetvdb.com/series/heroes-of-the-skies](https://thetvdb.com/series/heroes-of-the-skies)

Do you want a one-off Doc buried in a TV Show?  
Do you want a Movie?  
Pick something and go with it…lol

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**Author:** ![JaMike\_Richardson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JaMike\_Richardson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JaMike_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/7 "2020-07-16T16:56:42Z")

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Well. I didn’t know it re-aired in Canada under a different title. Nice find!!! Matched right up.

How’d you figure that out?

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/8 "2020-07-16T16:57:21Z")

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Kewel…

Collapse Seasons for that show and it’ll be right up where you can see it.

> [@JaMike\_Richardson](#):
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> How’d you figure that out?

When you found the TMDB TV Show listing I checked TVDB and there it was.  
Different show name, but still… job done.

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**Author:** ![JaMike\_Richardson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JaMike\_Richardson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JaMike_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/9 "2020-07-16T16:59:29Z")

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Yeah, I do that for a few series like Cosmos.

So do you just intuitively know every re-airing of every show ever, or did you find that alternative title some other way?

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**Author:** ![JaMike\_Richardson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JaMike\_Richardson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JaMike_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/10 "2020-07-16T17:00:13Z")

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never mind, i used the scroll bar and read the rest, haha

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/11 "2020-07-16T17:02:11Z")

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No, my crystal ball rolled off the coffee table and broke a while back…  
when you told me what to look for…:

 ![A Merry Go Round Broke Down-90](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/a/7/a75636f4526ca9ee3e422279bd337bc72c4072f1.jpeg)

I have done this a few (thousand) times tho…

😉

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**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/documentary-file-matching/614208/12 "2020-10-14T17:02:19Z")

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