# Plex and documentaries **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** server-synology, plex-web\ **Created:** [December 2, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480 "2023-12-02T09:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pmvdlaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@pmvdlaan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pmvdlaan)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/1 "2023-12-02T09:01:20Z")
Hi everyone, I’m having an issue with how to categorize some of my documentaries. I have single episode docu’s and some docu’s like mythbusters or Michael Palin travels that goes multiple seasons (episodes). I like to watch those docu’s in order like TV shows but when I manage my plex those docu’s show up as single episode shows and don’t play the next episode automaticly or even show matadata so I have to do it all manually. Is there some way to manage all my docu’s in 1 folder and still be able to manage them like TV shows or single episode docu’s (including metadata)? thanks ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/2 "2023-12-02T09:22:43Z")
You should organize/name them according to the official naming schema. But you can place those crossover episodes in a single episode collection or playlist to watch them e.g. based on their air dates ---
**Author:** ![bradbart948](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bradbart948/32/16472_2.png) [@bradbart948](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bradbart948)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/3 "2023-12-02T23:17:46Z")
In my case I went with a _Movies_ library for single-episode documentaries, and a _TV Shows_ library for multi-episode documentaries. Only way I could get Plex to pull metadata correctly for them… ---
**Author:** ![CapMarkoRamius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@CapMarkoRamius](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CapMarkoRamius)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/4 "2023-12-03T00:37:07Z")
What are some of your single-episode documentaries? You might be surprised at what “fake” series are available in metadata that are organized in order that you can take advantage of. I think it would be easiest to try to find these, and do everything in a TV library. NOVA, the PBS documentary series, for example. ---
**Author:** ![pmvdlaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@pmvdlaan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pmvdlaan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/5 "2023-12-03T07:39:08Z")
The single ones are like those you can find on youtube. for example a general ww2 documentary. or a space documentary like hubble telescope or Space X. These do not fit in a series like those from the youtube channel StarTalk etc… ---
**Author:** ![pmvdlaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@pmvdlaan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pmvdlaan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/6 "2023-12-03T07:40:51Z")
In 2 different folders? The problem is I want to put all docu’s in 1 folder series and single episodes. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/7 "2023-12-03T09:15:36Z")
That might not work, given they tend to be categorized differently in the metadata repositories used by Plex… and Plex doesn’t allow/support mixed-content libraries — at least if you want to get any metadata for those non-tv-show shows. ---
**Author:** ![bradbart948](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bradbart948/32/16472_2.png) [@bradbart948](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bradbart948)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/8 "2023-12-03T16:20:44Z")
Putting all documentaries in a single folder, and Plex library, was my goal as well when I started. My experience is that single episode documentaries are treated as movies by metadata sources such as [The Movie Database](https://www.themoviedb.org/) and [TheTVDB](https://thetvdb.com/). Consequently you’ll have issues with Plex trying to pull metadata if you dump single episode documentaries in a TV Shows library. You could always manually tag them I suppose. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/1/1/b/11bcf22b9beb198ff127397bb42799d3fcab0143.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/6/b/a/6bae6683ae02d2b8203a9c0649c57a2a6c575df9.png) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-documentaries/861480/9 "2024-03-02T16:21:17Z")
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