The Best TV Shows on Histoire TV

Every Histoire TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Peruse our comprehensive roster of Histoire TV’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of January 2026. Among Histoire TV’s finest offerings are The Dark Ages: An Age of Light and Murder Maps, which debuted in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Boasting a rich catalog, Histoire TV features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2012 to 2025.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • World War II In Numbers
    World War II In Numbers (2019)8.0

    Documentary using recorded figures and statistics to outline the full extent of the conflict, explaining the horrors of war and how it ever came to take place.

  • 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.

  • The Great Bluffs of World War II
    The Great Bluffs of World War II (2022)8.0

  • Normandy: Northern Men Empire
    Normandy: Northern Men Empire (2023)8.0

    From the Viking invasions to the great feats of arms of Richard the Lionheart, passing through the mythical battles of William the Conqueror, the history of the Dukes of Normandy is an incredible epic that spans more than 300 years. Military strategies, impregnable fortresses and siege engines, this documentary offers a dive into the major armed and political conflicts that have made Normandy one of the most powerful and coveted territories in Europe.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Les mégastructures Romaines en Gaule
    Les mégastructures Romaines en Gaule (2022)N/A

  • Les révolutions du regard
    Les révolutions du regard (2022)N/A