Origin: United Kingdom
Genre: History
69 content found
The English Game 2020

The story of the invention of football and how it quickly rose to become the world's most popular game by crossing class divides.

Category: Drama, History, Sport, TV Mini

Stars: Edward Holcroft, Kevin Guthrie, Charlotte Hope

7.6 IMDB Rating 7,779 Views
The Crown 2016–2023

Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton

8.6 IMDB Rating 34,249 Views
Peterloo 2018

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell

6.5 IMDB Rating 5,446 Views
The Gold 2023–2025

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, Emun Elliott, Charlotte Spencer

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,140 Views
The Miniaturist 2017

A young woman moves to 17th century Amsterdam and hires a mysterious local miniaturist to furnish the dollhouse she received from her merchant husband as a present, but the lifelike miniatures somehow start eerily foreshadowing he...

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai, Hayley Squires

7.0 IMDB Rating 8,671 Views
Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,464 Views
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour 2019

A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Derek Jacobi, Geoffrey Wawro, James Holland

8.6 IMDB Rating 16,206 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 97,815 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 4,651 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 10,341 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 4,667 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 7,784 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 626 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 5,032 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 12,027 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 3,347 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 9,741 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 1,940 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 1,933 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

1,261 Views