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91
9.4
/585180/
91
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85
/3992/
94
/34/
97
87
/28/
cc age 16+

Band of Brothers (2001)
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
poster
88
9.2
/37030/
89
/538/
83
/163/

The World at War (1973)
A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.
poster
87
9.0
/135259/
87
/3750/
85
/1758/
cc age 8+

Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".
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MGM Plus
84
8.2
/36021/
80
/1554/
77
/173/
100
/25/
86
79
/13/
cc age 16+

SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022)
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
poster
84
8.3
/142240/
83
/6598/
77
/2463/
89
/46/
91
86
/32/

The Pacific (2010)
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
poster
85
82
9.0
/20397/
83
/350/
83
/148/

Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.7
/10345/
76
/872/
70
/128/
91
/45/
90
79
/32/
cc age 14+

Manhattan (2014)
Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
8.4
/28650/
81
/948/
77
/250/

'Allo 'Allo! (1984)
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
poster
Hoopla
80
79
8.6
/20718/
80
/372/
79
/101/
78
/4/
cc age 13+

Foyle's War (2002)
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
77
8.3
/97595/
82
/4343/
82
/684/
94
/56/
54
71
/21/
cc age 15+

1923 (2022)
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
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Apple TV
77
7.4
/15977/
71
/833/
68
/140/
93
/115/
84
73
/35/
cc age 14+

Schmigadoon! (2021)
Josh and Melissa are a struggling couple whose lives are transformed when they get trapped in a magical musical town—with a mission they must complete.
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Hoopla
78
77
7.4
/10102/
71
/399/
70
/94/
91
/34/
93
70
/8/

Mrs Wilson (2018)
After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.
poster
77
7.8
/21958/
79
/943/
74
/399/

Taken (2002)
The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the surviving aliens from the crash.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
7.3
/12422/
70
/846/
67
/193/
87
/77/
73
82
/37/
cc age 16+

The Plot Against America (2020)
An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
poster
Hulu
76
7.7
/22952/
73
/1294/
73
/261/
84
/90/
82
70
/34/
cc age 17+

Catch-22 (2019)
Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries to fulfill his duty, maintain sanity and return home as soon as possible, but incompetence and bureaucracy constantly stand in his way.
poster
75
7.4
/16332/
75
/761/
79
/294/
92
/12/
71
63
/4/
cc age 15+

Gyeongseong Creature (2023)
Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
75
8.0
/5103/
74
/182/
75
/48/
92
/13/
94
72
/6/

Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
poster
Disney Plus
74
7.3
/158680/
72
/7970/
80
/4528/
85
/138/
62
72
/25/
cc age 14+

What If...? (2021)
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
poster
Disney Plus
86
74
9.1
/10443/
86
/157/
82
/91/
85
/10/
cc age 14+

The Beatles Anthology (1995)
A documentary series on the career of The Beatles.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.6
/50636/
74
/3614/
72
/768/
91
/54/
67
65
/31/
cc age 12+

Timeless (2016)
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
poster
Netflix
74
7.9
/19871/
75
/500/
73
/142/
70
/22/
cc age 14+

Grantchester (2014)
In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
poster
80
74
8.2
/5022/
79
/286/
79
/58/

The Time in Between (2013)
Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
74
7.1
/50470/
71
/2739/
71
/741/
88
/142/
64
79
/42/
cc age 17+

Lovecraft Country (2020)
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
poster
MGM Plus
74
73
7.2
/7983/
66
/380/
65
/70/
88
/25/
80
74
/9/
cc age 15+

A Spy Among Friends (2022)
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
poster
Apple TV
73
7.8
/68824/
78
/3226/
77
/538/
85
/100/
73
72
/42/
cc age 15+

Masters of the Air (2024)
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
poster
87
73
8.8
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80
/65/
77
/37/
100
/16/
94
88
/21/

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.
poster
Netflix
72
7.3
/66943/
74
/3351/
71
/482/
82
/28/
73
64
/8/
cc age 15+

Bodies (2023)
One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.
poster
Hulu
72
7.6
/11517/
73
/559/
69
/144/
cc age 17+

Das Boot (2018)
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
poster
Netflix
75
71
7.7
/4202/
76
/331/
74
/58/
cc age 16+

Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (2024)
This gripping docuseries examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise, rule and reckoning from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.2
/16199/
68
/1005/
73
/232/
74
/22/
cc age 14+

Batman: Caped Crusader (2024)
Welcome to Gotham City, where the corrupt outnumber the good, criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear. Forged in the fire of tragedy, wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human—the Batman. His one-man crusade for justice attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions spawn deadly, unforeseen ramifications.
poster
PBS
84
71
8.2
/4837/
74
/81/
82
/26/
100
/7/
88
79
/6/

Home Fires (2015)
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, they help maintain the nation’s fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.
poster
The Roku Channel
81
71
8.5
/8614/
77
/115/
79
/69/
83
/6/
83

Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
poster
70
7.4
/7975/
68
/501/
68
/81/
66
/47/
81
63
/34/
cc age 16+

Mob City (2013)
Based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of 1940's Los Angeles, this is the seductive story of the violent crime underbelly of America's most glamorous city and those who wanted to control it.
poster
Netflix
71
69
6.6
/6316/
66
/280/
63
/75/
95
/20/
77
64
/9/
cc age 14+

Transatlantic (2023)
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII. Transatlantic is a historical drama television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseilles, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
69
7.0
/7950/
66
/290/
67
/60/
89
/37/
68
70
/17/

A Very British Scandal (2021)
The true story of a duchess publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation.
poster
73
68
7.1
/4715/
68
/252/
73
/50/
83
/6/

Rillington Place (2016)
A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.
poster
Hoopla
74
68
7.9
/8278/
73
/272/
72
/89/

The Saboteurs (2015)
When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.
poster
Netflix
74
68
8.0
/5700/
73
/279/
70
/69/

Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Surviving power struggles, betrayals and plots, Hitler's inner circle of Nazi leaders seizes control of Germany and designs its disastrous future.
poster
80
67
8.8
/20130/
80
/161/
84
/24/
73
/14/
78

Rocket Boys (2022)
Spanning three crucial decades (1940-60s) in the history of India, the story chronicles the life of three great men responsible for launching India's space and nuclear programs respectively: Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, the architect of India's Nuclear Programme, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, universally acknowledged as the Father of the Indian Space Programme and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the pioneer of modern Indian aerospace and nuclear technology. The season traces the journey of Bhabha and Sarabhai coming to terms with the challenges facing a young, independent nation and their friendship, sacrifice and determination.
poster
The Roku Channel
80
67
8.6
/4776/
80
/173/
75
/188/
3.8
/691/

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (2005)
This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
poster
Netflix
67
7.2
/78523/
73
/3285/
76
/1217/
62
/99/
69
50
/32/
cc age 16+

Ratched (2020)
An origins story, beginning in 1947, which follows Ratched's journey and evolution from nurse to full-fledged monster tracking her murderous progression through the mental health care system.
poster
PBS
89
65
8.7
/1949/
84
/96/
83
/14/
100
/14/
85
96
/9/
cc age 14+

The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.
poster
Netflix
65
7.6
/7489/
73
/388/
70
/179/
69
/13/
76
59
/7/
cc age 13+

The Liberator (2020)
A diverse, dedicated, rough-and-tumble squad of soldiers spearheads the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.
poster
74
64
IMDb 97
6.8
/3394/
68
/212/
68
/24/
100
/13/
63
78
/8/
cc age 14+

Bookish (2025)
Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop, relies on his vast collection to unravel baffling cases. He nurtures a group of lovable yet troubled individuals, providing informal protection and guidance.
poster
The Roku Channel
71
64
7.8
/4750/
75
/199/
71
/37/
55
/11/
84
63
/6/
cc age 14+

Bomb Girls (2012)
Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
poster
Britbox Apple TV Channel
78
63
8.4
/4950/
74
/126/
78
/45/

All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
poster
73
63
7.4
/3280/
70
/143/
63
/49/
60
/10/
100

The Halcyon (2017)
The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
poster
Apple TV
63
62
7.4
/9243/
70
/386/
74
/77/
59
/56/
69
61
/24/
cc age 15+

The New Look (2024)
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.


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