Origin: United Kingdom
Genre: History
66 content found
Wolf Hall 2015–2024

After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,641 Views
Manhunt 2019–2021

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton tracks down a serial killer.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Martin Clunes, Claudie Blakley, Matthew Gravelle

7.6 IMDB Rating 11,055 Views
Four Lives 2022

A true-crime drama. Four young gay men are murdered in similar circumstances between 2014 and 2015 in the Barking area of London.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery

Stars: Sheridan Smith, Leanne Best, Stephen Merchant

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,570 Views
History 101 2020–

It is a new type of history show for a new type of audience: Big History delivered in an unadulterated hit of premium archive and jaw-dropping infographics.

Category: History

Stars: Natalie Silverman

6.8 IMDB Rating 8,726 Views
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes 2024

The invasion of Nazi-occupied France relived through powerful eyewitness recordings. Young actors who resemble the interviewees at the time of the war lip-sync the original testimony.

Category: Documentary, History, TV Mini, War

Stars: James Bulgin, Kate Vigurs, Joe Maiolo

8.5 IMDB Rating 1,332 Views
The Sixth Commandment 2023

Follows the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and the extraordinary events that unfolded in the following years.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, TV Mini

Stars: Conor MacNeill, Éanna Hardwicke, Adrian Rawlins

7.8 IMDB Rating 1,206 Views
Call the Midwife 2012–

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Jenny Agutter, Laura Main, Vanessa Redgrave

8.6 IMDB Rating 91,831 Views
Blowing Up History: Seven Wonders 2021–

Experts investigate some of the world's most epic monuments across the globe from America, Egypt, Rome and beyond. What engineering techniques were used to build these iconic structures? Coming up in this series, experts reveal the hidden secrets of these constructions using technology to blow them apart and understand what lies within. From lost tombs in the Valley of the Kings, new discoveries made beneath the tomb of Jesus Christ, and joining the hunt for King Arthur's castle, this series is set to blow your mind.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Demetri Goritsas, Aidan Dodson, Adel Kelany

604 Views
The Gold 2023–2024

Drama series inspired by true events surrounding the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, and the remarkable story that followed.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Emun Elliott

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,433 Views
A Passage to India 1984

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft

7.3 IMDB Rating 409 Views
Golda 2023

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Henry Goodman

6.0 IMDB Rating 986 Views
Steeltown Murders 2023

Three murders - unsolved but never forgotten. Thirty years on, can DCI Bethall find the serial killer who terrorised 1970s Port Talbot?

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Scott Arthur, Sion Alun Davies, Keith Allen

7.1 IMDB Rating 2,760 Views
Alexander: The Making of a God 2024–

Alexander was King of the ancient Greek city of Macedon widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders and by the age of 30 had created one of the largest empires in history.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Buck Braithwaite, Mido Hamada, Nada El Belkasmi

5.0 IMDB Rating 1,406 Views
12 Years a Slave 2013

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender

8.1 IMDB Rating 12,462 Views
Once Upon a Time in London 2019

In the 1930s, organized crime came to England. The Italian Sabinis and English White family in West End dominated the London underworld. Come WWII and Jack "Spot" took over and later Billy Hill.

Category: Crime, History

Stars: Terry Stone, Andy Beckwith, Josh Myers

5.1 IMDB Rating 6,885 Views
Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife 2023

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Benita Alexander-Noel, Paolo Macchiarini

7.2 IMDB Rating 972 Views
Anne Boleyn 2021

The final months of Boleyn's life, her struggle with Tudor England's patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Jodie Turner-Smith, Kris Hitchen, Thalissa Teixeira

5.6 IMDB Rating 2,917 Views
Haywire 2023

Haywire is about an armoured tank crew who go behind enemy lines to find "Hitler's Treasure", but they find something a lot more sinister that the Nazi's are hiding. We follow Sergeant Charles Taylor who takes his crew (Dale, Bobby and a new recruit Milton) AWOL, and along the way they find a young girl, Mathilde, who has a number of unexplainable abilities. They are forced to take her along with them, and soon they discover an underworld of kidnapping, torture, and experiments with the occult.

Category: History, War

Stars: Beatrice Fletcher, Ben Foley, Tom Snape

1,046 Views
Alone In Berlin 2016

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Louis Hofmann, Emil von Schönfels, Katrin Pollitt

6.5 IMDB Rating 1,220 Views
Vikings: The Rise and Fall 2022–

Throughout history, Vikings waged war from the seas, notoriously ruthless and with their own set of rules.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Anders Winroth, Alban Depper

7.6 IMDB Rating 1,631 Views