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The Defeated
The Defeated, original title Shadowplay (Schatten der Mörder – Shadowplay), is an eight-part 2020 ZDF/Netflix historical thriller set in 1946 Berlin, created by Måns Mårlind, starring Taylor Kitsch as cop Max McLaughlin hunting the angel maker Gladow and his brother Moritz.
The Deuce (TV series)
The Deuce, HBO drama series created by David Simon and George Pelecanos (The Wire), 2017–2019, three seasons, starring James Franco as twins and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Candy, about the rise of Times Square's porn industry from 1971 through the mid-1980s.
The English Game
The English Game is a six-part Netflix historical drama released March 20, 2020, created by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes, dramatizing football's 1870s origins, Arthur Kinnaird, and the first professional footballer Fergus Suter.
The Faithful: Women of the Bible
The Faithful: Women of the Bible is a Fox six-episode 2026 Genesis drama centered on Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel, starring Minnie Driver and Jeffrey Donovan, produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz, and René Echevarria, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
The First Lady (American TV series)
The First Lady is a 2022 Showtime anthology drama created by Aaron Cooley, starring Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Viola Davis as Michelle Obama; 10 episodes directed by Susanne Bier, canceled after one season.
The Gray House (TV series)
The Gray House is an eight-episode American Civil War espionage limited series on Prime Video (premiered February 26, 2026), created by Leslie Greif, Darrell Fetty, and John Sayles, directed by Roland Joffé, executive produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman, about Union women spies in Richmond.
The Greatest (2026 TV series)
The Greatest (2026 TV series): Prime Video biographical drama about Muhammad Ali, first authorized scripted series from his estate. Created by Ben Watkins, starring Jaalen Best; eight episodes premiered November 4, 2026.
The Law According to Lidia Poet
The Law According to Lidia Poet (La legge di Lidia Poët) is a Netflix Italian period crime drama (2023–2026, 3 seasons, 18 episodes) starring Matilda De Angelis as Italy's first woman lawyer, inspired by the real Lidia Poët.
The Lions of Sicily
The Lions of Sicily (I leoni di Sicilia) is a 2023 Disney+ Italian historical drama, 8 episodes directed by Paolo Genovese, adapted from Stefania Auci's novel about the Florio merchant dynasty of 19th-century Palermo, starring Michele Riondino and Miriam Leone.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is an Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama (2017–2023) created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Rachel Brosnahan as a 1958 New York housewife turned stand-up comic; five seasons, 22 Emmys, Peabody and Golden Globe winner.
The New Force
The New Force (Skiftet) is Netflix's 2025 Swedish period drama, six episodes set in 1958 Stockholm about the first female police officers in the Klara district, created by Patrik Ehrnst and Rojda Sekersöz, inspired by true events with fictional characters.
The New Look
The New Look is a 2024 American historical drama series on Apple TV+, created by Todd A. Kessler, starring Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel.
The Onedin Line
The Onedin Line, BBC One drama (1971-1980) created by Cyril Abraham; eight series, 91 episodes; follows Captain James Onedin's Liverpool shipping line, 1860-1886, through the sail-to-steam transition, starring Peter Gilmore with the Khachaturian Spartacus theme.
The Playlist
The Playlist is a 2022 Swedish Netflix limited series dramatizing Spotify's founding by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, based on Spotify Untold; six perspective-based episodes, directed by Per-Olav Sørensen, distinct from unrelated playlist apps and film sites.
The Temptations (miniseries)
The Temptations (1998) is a two-part, four-hour NBC miniseries based on Otis Williams' autobiography, directed by Allan Arkush, starring Charles Malik Whitfield, Leon, and D.B. Woodside; it drew about 23 million viewers and won an Emmy and a 1999 NAACP Image Award.
Those About to Die
Those About to Die is a 2024 Peacock/Prime Video historical drama series, 10 episodes, set in 79 AD Rome under Vespasian. Created by Robert Rodat, directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Anthony Hopkins, based on Daniel P. Mannix's 1958 book; Metacritic 49, no Season 2 announced.
Titanic Sinks Tonight
Titanic Sinks Tonight is a four-part BBC Two and iPlayer docudrama by Stellify Media, premiering December 28, 2025, that reconstructs the Titanic's final 160 minutes in real time using verbatim survivor testimony, filmed at Studio Ulster, Belfast.
Underground (TV series)
Underground is an American historical drama series about the Underground Railroad, created by Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, which ran for two seasons on WGN America from 2016.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British ITV drama created by Eileen Atkins and Jean Marsh, broadcast 1971–1975, following the Bellamy family and servants at 165 Eaton Place.
Versailles (TV series)
Versailles is a 2015-2018 Franco-Canadian Canal+ historical drama created by Simon Mirren and David Wolstencroft, starring George Blagden as Louis XIV; three 10-episode seasons, ~€30m season-one budget, filmed partly at the real palace.
Vikings: Valhalla
Vikings: Valhalla is a Netflix historical drama sequel to Michael Hirst's Vikings, set 100 years later in the early 11th century, following Leif Eriksson, Freydis, and Harald Sigurdsson; three seasons, 2022 to 2024, showrunner Jeb Stuart.
Whiskey on the Rocks
Whiskey on the Rocks is a 2024 six-part Swedish satirical miniseries from SVT and Disney+ about the 1981 U-137 submarine crisis, starring Rolf Lassgård as Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin.
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Wu-Tang: An American Saga is a Hulu drama series (2019-2023, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Alex Tse and RZA dramatizing the Wu-Tang Clan's formation in early 1990s New York, starring Ashton Sanders as RZA.