Top Historical Drama Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Fernanda Torres

Fernanda Montenegro

Selton Mello

Valentina Herszage

I'm Still Here (2024)

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Brazil, France

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

Style: nostalgic, realistic

Plot: mother, beach, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, based on true story, anti-communism, sao paulo, brazil, ...

Time: 1970s, 1990s, 2010s

Place: rio de janeiro

Cast

Park Seo-jun

Go Ara

Park Hyung-sik

Do Ji-han

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth (2016) TV Show

7.9 281 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: An elite group of young warriors trained in morals and martial arts finds love and friendship in Silla during Korea’s ancient Three Kingdoms period.

Style: romantic

Plot: royal family, romcom, romance, coming of age, historical, historical drama, ancient korea, silla, ...

Cast

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Henry Cavill

Sarah Bolger

Max Brown

The Tudors (2007) TV Show

7.8 834 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

Plot: monarchy, royal family, tudor, anne boleyn, king of england, henry viii, palace intrigue, historical drama, ...

Time: 16th century

Place: england

Cast

Evgeny Mironov

Igor Ivanov

Lydia Velezheva

Olga Budina

The Idiot (2003) TV Show

7.8 33 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Russia

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Story: The Idiot (Идиот) is a 2003 Russian costume drama television serial written by Vladimir Bortko, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel of the same title.In corrupt 19th-century St Petersburg, Christ-like Prince Myshkin becomes entangled in the lives of the self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the romantic Aglaya Epanchina.

Plot: based on novel or book, st. petersburg, russia, miniseries, period drama, historical drama, costume drama, existential drama

Time: 19th century

Cast

James Badge Dale

Jon Seda

Joseph Mazzello

Ashton Holmes

The Pacific (2010) TV Show

7.8 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: 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.

Plot: marine corps, okinawa, pacific war, miniseries, historical, military life, guadalcanal, iwo jima, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Volker Bruch

Liv Lisa Fries

Lars Eidinger

Benno Fu00fcrmann

Babylon Berlin (2017) TV Show

7.7 397 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Germany

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Plot: period drama, historical, historical drama, costume drama, neo-noir, european history, german history, weimar republic, ...

Time: 1920s, 1930s

Cast

Daniel Sharman

Synnu00f8ve Karlsen

Alessandra Mastronardi

Sebastian de Souza

Medici: Masters of Florence (2016) TV Show

7.7 327 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: France, Italy

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.

Plot: florence, italy, political intrigue , tuscany, italy, historical drama, medici, money in the bank, ...

Time: renaissance, 15th century

Cast

Robert McNamara

Errol Morris

Fidel Castro

Barry Goldwater

The Fog of War (2003)

7.7 299 votes

Genre: Documentary, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Plot: politics, biography, historical figure, historical society, secretary of defense, anti war protest, cuban missile crisis, cabinet position, ...

Place: vietnam

Cast

Jodie Comer

Rebecca Benson

Jacob Collins-Levy

Kenneth Cranham

The White Princess (2017) TV Show

7.7 297 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.

Plot: monarchy, princess, royalty, miniseries, palace intrigue, historical drama, costume drama, british royal family

Time: 15th century

Place: england

Cast

Marina Aleksandrova

Vladimir Yaglych

Pavel Tabakov

Nadezhda Lumpova

Ekaterina (2014) TV Show

7.7 36 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Russia

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 56

Audience: NR

Story: 1745. The reigning Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is infertile. The only heir is her feeble-minded nephew Peter III. Elizabeth cannot allow Peter to ascend to the throne, so she decides to marry the tsarevich, wait for the birth of her son, and then take the boy and raise him as a real Russian emperor herself. Brides are coming to St. Petersburg. Among them is the lovely Fike - the young Princess Sofia Frederica from the impoverished branch of the Prussian kings.

Plot: royal family, russian history, palace intrigue, historical drama, catherine the great, russian empire

Time: 18th century

Isabel (2012) TV Show

7.7 65 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 39

Story: Charting the life of Isabella I of Castile, one of the most important women in Spain’s history, Isabel follows her passionate story from childhood to being crowned Queen. From her political struggles within King Henry IV's court to her wedding to Ferdinand of Aragon, the drama encapsulates the passions, emotions and sacrifices of a woman who refused to just be a figurehead and whose outlook was ahead of her time.

Plot: queen, monarchy, kingdom, royal family, royalty, king, palace intrigue, historical drama, ...

Time: renaissance, 15th century

Place: spain

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen

Amanda Collin

Simon Bennebjerg

Kristine Kujath Thorp

The Promised Land (2023)

7.7 599 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: Denmark, Germany

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?

Style: shocking

Plot: based on novel or book, murder, priest, colonisation, soldier, king, farming, danish, ...

Time: 18th century

Cast

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Magnificent Century: Kösem (2015) TV Show

7.7 391 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 60

Story: Tells the legendary story between the Sultan of Kosem and Ahmed I.

Plot: royal family, palace intrigue, historical drama, ottoman empire, ottoman, murad iv, kösem sultan

Time: 17th century, 1600s

Cast

George Blagden

Alexander Vlahos

Tygh Runyan

Stuart Bowman

Versailles (2015) TV Show

7.7 228 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality.

Plot: royal family, versailles, romance, historical fiction, king, period drama, political intrigue , french court, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: france

The Pillars of the Earth (2010) TV Show

7.7 414 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Canada, Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-14

Story: A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.

Plot: monk, based on novel or book, cathedral, kingdom, royalty, religion, miniseries, period drama, ...

Time: medieval, 12th century

Place: england

Cast

Anson Mount

Colm Meaney

Robin McLeavy

Christopher Heyerdahl

Hell on Wheels (2011) TV Show

7.6 469 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Western

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 57

Audience: TV-14

Story: The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Plot: gunslinger, brothel, frontier, train, brutality, period drama, historical, railroad, ...

Time: 19th century, 1860s

Cast

Morten Hemmingsen

Rosalinde Mynster

Anette Stu00f8velbu00e6k

Mads Wille

Seaside Hotel (2013) TV Show

7.6 36 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Denmark

Seasons: 10

Episodes: 64

Audience: TV-14

Story: At Andersen’s Seaside Hotel by the North Sea dunes, meet three young people as they try to emancipate themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf.

Plot: hotel, historical drama, bade, hilarious, cheerful

The Borgias (2011) TV Show

7.6 525 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.

Plot: rome, italy, pope, florence, italy, religion, historical, italian history, ...

Time: renaissance, 15th century

Cast

Rami Malek

Russell Crowe

Michael Shannon

Leo Woodall

Nuremberg (2025)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Hungary

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

Plot: based on novel or book, nuremberg trials, based on true story, nuremberg, germany, post world war ii, historical drama, hermann göring

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Paul Dano

Lily James

James Norton

Gillian Anderson

War and Peace (2016) TV Show

7.6 243 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-14

Story: The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

Plot: based on novel or book, napoleon bonaparte, peace, family, historical drama, costume drama, aristocratic

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