The Best TV Shows on Histoire TV

Every Histoire TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Discover the best of Histoire TV with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for June 2026. Icons of Histoire TV, Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil and The Dark Ages: An Age of Light made their debut in 2007 and 2012, setting industry standards. Histoire TV has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2007 all the way to 2025.

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

  • Normandy, Land of Warriors
    Normandy, Land of Warriors (2023)9.0

    From the Viking invasions to the great sieges of Richard the Lionheart, the history of the Dukes of Normandy is an incredible military epic spanning more than 300 years. Take a deep dive into the great armed conflicts that made the Normans one of the world’s most powerful dynasties.

  • Living with Hitler
    Living with Hitler (2021)8.7

    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)8.3

    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.

  • The Dark Ages: An Age of Light
    The Dark Ages: An Age of Light (2012)8.0

    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.

  • Hitler's Empire: The Post War Plan
    Hitler's Empire: The Post War Plan (2017)8.0

    Author and historian Guy Walters investigates the Nazi post-war plan for a new world order: from how Hitler began constructing buildings on a truly colossal scale for his new world capital to how a new and expanded Germany rising out of the ashes of conquered Europe would have meant slavery for millions.

  • 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.

  • Hell on Earth
    Hell on Earth (2022)8.0

  • 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 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.

  • True Evil: The Making of A Nazi
    True Evil: The Making of A Nazi (2018)7.5

    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.

  • War Factories
    War Factories (2019)7.5

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

  • Nazi War Machines: Secrets Uncovered
    Nazi War Machines: Secrets Uncovered (2019)6.5

    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

  • 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.

  • America's Hidden Stories
    America's Hidden Stories (2019)4.0

    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.

  • 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's Countdown to War
    Hitler's Countdown to War (2021)N/A

  • Le Nerf de la guerre
    Le Nerf de la guerre (2021)N/A