1) Band of Brothers:
Band of Brothers is a historical miniseries based on the biography of Major Richard Winters, detailing his exploits leading a portion of Easy Company that were assigned with the U.S 101st Airborne, from their training in Camp Toccoa Georgia, the landing on D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Siege of Bastogne in the Ardennes Offensive, all the way to the final days of the war with the capture of Eagles Nest, and mentioning the surrender of Imperial Japan. From a large portion of people with friendship forged on the anvil of training, ravaged by battles and humbled in numbers as the war came to an end, it tells the harrowing story of serving as young men were sent to be reaped by the Grim Reaper in ever gruesome and brutal ways.
2) The Pacific:
Called the sister series of Band of Brothers, even surpassing it, The Pacific tells the perspective of three marines: Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone who were deployed on the Pacific Theatre of Operations as part of the 1st Marine Division fighting against Imperial Japan during World War II. From the first landings, to battles like the ones at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa and Iwo Jima, to the dropping of the atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki followed up by the surrender of Imperial Japan, it tells the stories of how three marines in their youth descend toward near breaking point in depression and filled with nothing but burning hatred toward their enemies.
3) Spartacus:
Beginning with an unknown Thracian’s involvement in a Roman Auxiliary in a campaign fighting against the Getae as the tribe raids Thracians’ lands, under the command of legatus Claudis Glaber that quits to pursue greater glory fighting Mithridates forces in Asia Minor, abandoning the auxiliaries doing so. Mutinying and finding his village burned down for his betrayal, he is forced into the gladiatorial pits to fight for his freedom, while his wife Sura is forced into slavery instead. The Thracian in question is Spartacus, that follows a dramatical history based timeline of what had transpired that led to the Third Serville War.
4) Rome:
Depicting the life of the rich, powerful and historically significant people of Rome, while also depicting fictionalized two common men’s lives, fortunes, families and acquaintances by the names of Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo that are mentioned in Julius Caesar’s “Commentarii de Bello Gallico”. The series features Julius Caesar, Pompey Magnus, Mark Antony and Cicero among others, depicting their rise and eventual downfall, as well as covering the legacy they left behind.
5) The Tudors:
The historical drama The Tudors shows the chronicled period reigned by King Henry VIII, as he is tested constantly by internal struggles in his kingdom, international affairs as well as the mischievous dealings of his court in 1500’s England. From questioning he marriage to his Queen Katherine of Aragon who could not provide him a male heir to inherit the throne, to disagreeing with the Pope and demanding his marriage be annulled while pursuing and eventually marrying six times to various mistresses he had in the hopes of acquiring a son, to creating a branch of church to rival Catholicism headed by the Pope, calling it Protestantism to eventually spiraling his kingdom down a civil division alongside his first wife, Queen Katherine.