Most Popular War TV Series/TV Mini-Series With At Least 2000 Votes
1. Vikings (2013– )
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Drama, History
The world of the Vikings is brought to life through the journey of Ragnar Lothbrok, the first Viking to emerge from Norse legend and onto the pages of history - a man on the edge of myth.
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgård, Clive Standen
Votes: 215,571
2. Band of Brothers (2001 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 594 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day.
Stars: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor
Votes: 245,103
3. The Tudors (2007–2010)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
A dramatic series about the reign and marriages of King Henry VIII.
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy, James Frain
Votes: 52,591
4. The Last Ship (2014– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to confront the reality of a new existence when a pandemic kills off most of the earth's population.
Stars: Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin, Charles Parnell, Travis Van Winkle
Votes: 40,458
5. M*A*S*H (1972–1983)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of an army hospital in the Korean war find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation.
Stars: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr
Votes: 38,122
6. War & Peace (2016 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 379 min | Drama, History, Romance
As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.
Stars: Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson
Votes: 11,184
7. Rome (2005–2007)
TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Drama, History
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Stars: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon
Votes: 118,153
8. The Pacific (2010 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 530 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.
Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli
Votes: 71,556
9. TURN: Washington's Spies (2014– )
60 min | Drama, War
Follows New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for ... See full summary »
Stars: Jamie Bell, Seth Numrich, Daniel Henshall, Meegan Warner
Votes: 13,457
10. The White Queen (2013 TV Mini-Series)
60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Three different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th Century England.
Stars: Aneurin Barnard, Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale, Faye Marsay
Votes: 15,038
11. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington
Votes: 9,535
12. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, War
The inmates of a German World War II prisoner of war camp conduct an espionage and sabotage campaign right under the noses of their warders.
Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 6,058
13. The Pillars of the Earth (2010 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.
Stars: Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell
Votes: 22,971
14. Dad's Army (1968–1977)
30 min | Comedy, War
During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
Stars: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie
Votes: 4,005
15. Generation Kill (2008 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, War
A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.
Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen, Jon Huertas
Votes: 35,740
16. Army Wives (2007–2013)
60 min | Drama, Romance, War
Four women and one man share the common bond of loving someone in the U.S. Army.
Stars: Brian McNamara, Wendy Davis, Catherine Bell, Sterling K. Brown
Votes: 5,496
17. North and South (1985 TV Mini-Series)
561 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 7,445
18. The World at War (1973 TV Mini-Series)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
A series of documentaries about World War II.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Averell Harriman, Albert Speer
Votes: 12,654
19. Roots (1977 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 570 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Stars: LeVar Burton, Todd Bridges, Robert Reed, John Amos
Votes: 11,981
20. Dirilis: Ertugrul (2014– )
120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Heroic story of Ertugrul Ghazi, the father of Osman (Uthman) who founded the Ottoman State.
Stars: Engin Altan Düzyatan, Hülya Darcan, Esra Bilgiç, Cengiz Coskun
Votes: 6,538
21. The Unit (2006–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Hour long show which looks at the life of American super-secret operators.
Stars: Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Audrey Marie Anderson, Robert Patrick
Votes: 17,067
22. Manhattan (2014–2015)
TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, History, War
In 1943, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a team of government scientists is working on the top secret Manhattan Project in a race to produce an atomic bomb before the Nazis. Meanwhile, their families adjust to a life on the military base.
Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Chernus, Christopher Denham, Katja Herbers
Votes: 6,293
23. The Bible (2013 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 440 min | Documentary, Action, Drama
The story of God's creation of the Earth and the landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Stars: Keith David, Robert Powell, Diogo Morgado, Darwin Shaw
Votes: 8,509
24. Hatfields & McCoys (2012 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 290 min | Drama, History, Romance
Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.
Stars: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger
Votes: 17,959
25. 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992)
45 min | Comedy, War
In WW2 France, Rene Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating Rene.
Stars: Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Vicki Michelle, Richard Marner
Votes: 19,403
26. Muhtesem Yüzyil (2011–2014)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
From 1520, follows Suleiman the Magnificent and his relatives from his great conquests to the "Battle of Szigeth".
Stars: Halit Ergenç, Selen Ozturk, Meryem Uzerli, Gürbey Ileri
Votes: 10,778
27. The Diary of Anne Frank (2009 TV Mini-Series)
150 min | Biography, Drama, War
Based on the diary of a teenage girl in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Stars: Kate Ashfield, Geoff Breton, Ron Cook, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 2,183
28. Generation War (2013 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein
Votes: 15,831 | Gross: $0.09M
29. The Winds of War (1983 TV Mini-Series)
883 min | Drama, Romance, War
The trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 2,806
30. The Civil War (1990 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 680 min | Documentary, History, War
A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.
Stars: David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards
Votes: 6,602
31. Shogun (1980 TV Mini-Series)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 9,307
32. Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003 TV Mini-Series)
130 min | Biography, Drama, History
A unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II.
Stars: Peter Stormare, Friedrich von Thun, Peter O'Toole, Zoe Telford
Votes: 17,597
33. Tour of Duty (1987–1990)
45 min | Action, Drama, War
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Stars: Terence Knox, Stephen Caffrey, Tony Becker, Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Votes: 2,988
34. Parade's End (2012 TV Mini-Series)
287 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Revolves around a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette.
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens
Votes: 7,541
35. Das Boot (1985 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 293 min | Drama, War
A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Votes: 12,972
36. Birdsong (2012 TV Mini-Series)
165 min | Drama, History, Romance
As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Clémence Poésy, Matthew Goode, Rory Keenan
Votes: 4,514
37. Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
TV-PG | 175 min | Comedy, War
Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Votes: 34,623
38. Kampen om tungtvannet (2015 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History, War
The story behind Hitler's plan of Germany getting the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in Rjukan, Norway, seen from four angles, the German side, the allied, the saboteurs and the company side.
Stars: Andreas Döhler, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Marc Benjamin Puch, Christoph Bach
Votes: 3,928
39. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
PG-13 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Truly amazing, fantastical, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses and directors make guest appearances.
Stars: Charles Durning, Douglas Seale, Louis Giambalvo, Sharon Spelman
Votes: 3,715
40. North and South, Book II (1986 TV Mini-Series)
570 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Mary Crosby
Votes: 3,608
41. Bomb Girls (2012– )
60 min | Drama, War
A drama about World War II women at work in a munitions factory.
Stars: Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Charlotte Hegele, Ali Liebert
Votes: 3,295
42. 1864 (2014 TV Mini-Series)
57 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Bent Mejding, Marie Tourell Søderberg
Votes: 2,264
43. Holocaust (1978 TV Mini-Series)
475 min | Drama, Romance, War
The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth
Votes: 3,441
44. Shaka Zulu (1986 TV Mini-Series)
300 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A historical account on the life of the Zulu king Shaka.
Stars: Edward Fox, Robert Powell, Trevor Howard, Fiona Fullerton
Votes: 2,058
45. Attila (2001 TV Mini-Series)
Unrated | 177 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
A romanced story of Attila the Hun, from when he lost his parents in childhood until his death. Attila is disclosed as a great leader, strategist and lover and the movie shows his respect ... See full summary »
Stars: Pauline Lynch, Steven Berkoff, Andrew Pleavin, Tommy Flanagan
Votes: 8,672
46. House of Saddam (2008 TV Mini-Series)
TV-MA | 232 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisers.
Stars: Igal Naor, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Makram Khoury, Philip Arditti
Votes: 2,981
47. Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (2005 TV Mini-Series)
285 min | Documentary, History, War
The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.
Stars: Samuel West, Linda Ellerbee, Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt
Votes: 2,939
48. Apocalypse - La 2ème guerre mondiale (2009 TV Mini-Series)
312 min | Documentary, War
Apocalypse: The Second World War(2009) is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war ... See full summary »
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Martin Sheen
Votes: 4,009
49. Nuremberg (2000 TV Mini-Series)
180 min | Drama, History, War
The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy
Votes: 4,562
50. Colditz (2005 TV Mini-Series)
R | 240 min | Drama, War
Four Brits tunnel out of a German POW camp. One is killed, two are recaptured and one escapes. Scottish Corporal Nicholas McGrade, the lone escapee is a slacker and reluctant soldier, but ... See full summary »
Stars: Damian Lewis, Sophia Myles, Tom Hardy, Laurence Fox
Votes: 2,173
51. Over There (2005)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Drama, War
A dramatized take on war in Iraq.
Stars: Josh Henderson, Luke Macfarlane, Erik Palladino, Keith Robinson
Votes: 3,945
52. Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 120 min | Biography, Drama, War
When the war began, she was only a little girl. When it ended, she was the voice of a generation... A compassionate and sensitive televisual portrait of the Holocaust's greatest diarist.
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Tatjana Blacher, Brenda Blethyn
Votes: 4,106
53. Napoléon (2002 TV Mini-Series)
380 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story. His meteoric rise to military prominence ... See full summary »
Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich
Votes: 3,355
54. The War (2007 TV Mini-Series)
TV-14 | 124 min | Documentary, War
A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
Stars: Keith David, Katharine Phillips, Tom Hanks, Paul Fussell
Votes: 2,790
55. Escaflowne (1996– )
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Hitomi is a girl with psychic abilities who gets transported to the magical world of Gaea. She and her friends find themselves under attack from the evil Zaibach empire, and the Guymelf ... See full summary »
Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Seki, Shin'ichirô Miki, Ikue Ôtani
Votes: 3,056
56. Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (1973 TV Mini-Series)
840 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov. The series portrays the exploits of Maxim Isaev, a ... See full summary »
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
Votes: 2,681
57. Mahabharat (1988–1990)
45 min | Drama, Romance, War
The epic story of the family feud between the noble Pandava princes and their scheming cousins, the Kaurava kings.
Stars: Harish Bhimani, Mukesh Khanna, Nitish Bharadwaj, Puneet Issar
Votes: 3,884
58. Il était une fois... l'homme (1978– )
25 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A comprehensive animated survey of the evolution of humanity and the history of predominately Western Civilization.
Stars: Annie Balestra, Albert Barillé, Yves Barsacq, Claude Bertrand
Votes: 2,385