Origin: United Kingdom
Genre: History
68 content found
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 94,042 Views
The Scandalous Lady W 2015

An 18th-century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Natalie Dormer, Jessica Gunning, Oliver Chris

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,165 Views
Traitors 2019

A British civil servant agrees to spy on her own government for the Americans in the aftermath of WWII.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Emma Appleton, Brandon P Bell, Keeley Hawes

6.6 IMDB Rating 9,468 Views
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans 2019

Atti, a smart and quick-witted Roman teenager, manages to upset Emperor Nero with one of his schemes. For punishment, Atti is sent to work in a cold and wet Britain where he also meets the Celts.

Category: Comedy, Family, History, Musical

Stars: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost

5.4 IMDB Rating 4,228 Views
Red Joan 2018

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore

6.4 IMDB Rating 7,342 Views
Burke and Hare 2010

A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

Category: Comedy, Crime, History, Thriller

Stars: Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley

6.1 IMDB Rating 271 Views
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 4,150 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 11,326 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 2,774 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 8,961 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 1,504 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 1,371 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

766 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 4,639 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 517 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 1,110 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 2,939 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 1,566 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 12,648 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 7,024 Views