The Best TV Shows on Histoire TV

Every Histoire TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil and The Dark Ages: An Age of Light represent the pinnacle of Histoire TV’s programming, launching in 2007 and 2012. A broadcaster of distinction, Histoire TV has aired more than 20 shows between 2007 and 2025. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of Histoire TV’s elite series, with our list refreshed for October 2025.

  • Face à face pour l'Élysée
    Face à face pour l'Élysée (2021)9.0

  • Living with Hitler
    Living with Hitler (2021)8.8

    The Nazi era from 1993 to 1945 is illustrated through archived material, with insights and anecdotes provided by world-leading experts and commentators.

  • Murder Maps
    Murder Maps (2015)8.4

    This drama-documentary series takes us back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in London, England's history. Nicholas Day guides us into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.

  • True Evil: The Making of A Nazi
    True Evil: The Making of A Nazi (2018)8.0

    This ground-breaking series examines the lives of the leading Nazis, in an effort to answer the question, why did it happen? It explores and tries to understand the incredible transformation of educated men into Nazi criminals, by charting the lives of six people who over the course of 20 years descend into moral oblivion.

  • Nazi War Machines: Secrets Uncovered
    Nazi War Machines: Secrets Uncovered (2019)8.0

    Historian James Holland goes inside the Nazi war machine, exploring the extraordinary weapons produced under the Third Reich, in a series that includes rare archive material

  • Railway Murders
    Railway Murders (2021)8.0

    Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British railway.

  • Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin
    Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin (2025)8.0

    Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin will forensically examine events that started in August 2000 after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of Russian submariners at the bottom of the Barents Sea.”

  • The Dark Ages: An Age of Light
    The Dark Ages: An Age of Light (2012)7.6

    Christianity slowly emerged from being a persecuted minority to the state religion of the Roman Empire. This episode is a history of the ways believers grappled with a way to depict Jesus. Simple symbolic meaning developed into splendid art and churches.

  • The Pacific War in Color
    The Pacific War in Color (2018)7.6

    Witness iconic assaults, intense battles, and intimate moments of the Pacific War, in color.

  • War Factories
    War Factories (2019)7.5

    The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War.

  • Nefertiti - The Lonely Queen
    Nefertiti - The Lonely Queen (2020)6.0

    A documentary that explores the dim world of illicit trade in antiquities, as well as the long and hard struggle for the repatriation of all stolen treasures.

  • 100 Days to Victory
    100 Days to Victory (2018)5.3

    The extraordinary story of how the Allies turned the tide in the final months of 1918 to win the First World War.

  • The Real Mad Men of Advertising
    The Real Mad Men of Advertising (2017)5.2

    Follow the evolution of advertising from the 1950s through the 1980s, via interviews with the industry's top ad executives, and through classic ads and commercials.

  • America's Hidden Stories
    America's Hidden Stories (2019)3.5

    Modern historians, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and newly discovered evidence, rewrite the nation's most iconic stories.

  • Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil
    Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil (2007)N/A

    Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke have found at the NARA (National Archives in Washington DC) almost four hours of footage, mostly in colour, filmed by Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun between 1938 and 1944. It's an unbeleivable eyesight on Hitler's private life from the happy life in the "Eagle's nest" till his suicide in his bunker.

  • Jungle War
    Jungle War (2019)N/A

    Jungle Warfare in the 20th century, from WW2, to Malaya and Indonesia, to Vietnam and Cuba.

  • The Blitz: Britain on Fire
    The Blitz: Britain on Fire (2019)N/A

    Exploring the eight days in May 1941 when Britain, and Liverpool in particular, was subjected to one of the most intense bombardments of the entire war. Featuring eyewitness accounts and recollections from many whom have never spoken out before.

  • Cinema and World War II
    Cinema and World War II (2020)N/A

  • Fiasco
    Fiasco (2021)N/A

    Amidst the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Jimmy Carter's failure to free American hostages sets the stage for Reagan's own hostage crisis.

  • Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession
    Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)N/A

    After a terrible winter, 1942 starts badly for Stalin due to a ruthless Nazi campaign that leaves millions of Soviets captive and without food.