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 October 2025. Highlighting Histoire TV’s quality programming, Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil and Murder Maps stand out, premiering in 2007 and 2015. A broadcaster of distinction, Histoire TV has aired more than 20 shows between 2007 and 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Hell on Earth
    Hell on Earth (2022)8.0

  • Normandy, Land of Warriors
    Normandy, Land of Warriors (2023)8.0

    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.

  • 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 Great War in Numbers
    The Great War in Numbers (2017)7.7

    The Great War in Numbers tells the complete story of World War I - from outbreak to conclusion - and the fragile peace that followed. It was a war unlike any other before it, with a number of firsts along the way. Seventy-milliion men were mobilised to fight around the world, from the trenches of the Western Front to the Middle East and Africa.

  • The Pacific War in Color
    The Pacific War in Color (2018)7.5

    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.

  • Wartime Crime
    Wartime Crime (2017)7.0

    While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime.

  • 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.

  • 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.