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List of programs broadcast by the History Channel. This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History / H2 in the United States .
- Band of Brothers
- The First Lady
- Gaslit
- The Good Lord Bird
- John Adams
- The Looming Tower
- Mrs. America
- Roots
- The Underground Railroad
- When They See Us
Created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, this Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBOminiseries from 2001 follows the “Easy Company” of elite U.S. World War II paratroopers from their days of training until the end of the war.
Depictions of U.S. presidents are a Roosevelt dime a dozen on television, but Showtime gives long-overdue attention to their spouses in this 2022 anthology series, with Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Viola Davisportraying Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama, respectively.
With Julia Roberts in the lead role, this 2022 Starz political thriller shows how Martha Michell, the outspoken wife of then-President Richard Nixon’s attorney general John N. Mitchell (Sean Penn), helped blow the cover off the Watergate scandal.
Ethan Hawkeco-created and led the cast of this 2020 Showtime miniseries, playing abolitionist John Brown, whose 1859 raid of an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, didn’t kick off the slave revolt he imagined but did set the stage for the American Civil War.
Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, and Tom Wilkinson all won Emmys for their performances in this 2008 HBO miniseries, which follows John Adams (Giamatti) as he goes from lawyer to revolutionary to the United States’ second president, and tracks his story until his death on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Lawrence Wright and serving as an indictment of intergovernmental incompatibility, this 2018 Huluminiseries dramatizes the CIA and FBI’s rivalry during their efforts to prevent a terrorist attack in the years before 9/11.
The Equal Rights Amendment, which seeks to guarantee equal rights to Americans regardless of sex, still isn’t the law of the land, but it’s not for lack of trying, as this 2020 FX series evinces. The drama follows women on either side of the issue, with Cate Blanchett playing conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly and Rose Byrneas feminist leader G...
One of the most-watched U.S. TV broadcasts of all time, with some 130 million viewers tuning in for the finale, this 1977 ABC miniseries initially centers on Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a man abducted in The Gambia and forced into slavery in the United States, before following his descendants through the Civil War era.
Created by Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning director and co-writer of Moonlight, this Prime Videolimited series, which debuted in 2021, adapts the Colson Whitehead novel of the same name and tells a fictional story about the real-life routes to freedom for those enslaved in the southern United States in the mid-1800s.
As excruciating as it is crucial, especially during the Black Lives Matter era, this 2019 Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernayshows how a broken and biased legal system imprisoned five Black and Brown youth, who became known as the “Central Park Five,” for a rape they didn’t commit.
Oct 16, 2023 · The 25 Best Historical TV Shows. By Lacey Womack. Updated Oct 16, 2023. Link copied to clipboard. The best historical TV series — whether they're set in the distant past or 20th century — remain an incredibly popular genre, with a seemingly limitless range of stories to tell.
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May 21, 2024 · Vote up the best history documentaries and historical reality shows. The best shows about history deep dive into everything from moments to millennia, eras to eons, and are wonderful windows into the past. Great shows about history aren't limited to those currently airing on the History Channel, Netflix, or even PBS.
Oct 27, 2021 · published 27 October 2021. The only problem with historical TV shows is there are so many to choose from. Here’s our handy historical hit-list of the best to watch in 2021. 'The Bridgerton' cast.(Image credit: Netflix) You need a guide to the best historical TV shows as there are so many of them!
Sep 14, 2023 · 1500s: The Spanish Princess. Watch on Amazon Prime with Starz. Created by: Emma Frost, Matthew Graham. Stars: Charlotte Hope, Ruairi O’Connor, Harriet Walter, Stephanie Levi-John, Laura ...
