Release Date: 2010-03-14

Overview: Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Rating: 7.778 (2406 votes)

Release Date: 2008-07-13

Overview: The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

Rating: 7.902 (456 votes)

Release Date: 2002-12-02

Overview: The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the surviving aliens from the crash.

Rating: 7.457 (385 votes)

Release Date: 2014-01-12

Overview: An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Rating: 8.3 (3696 votes)

Release Date: 2002-06-02

Overview: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Rating: 8.6 (2394 votes)

Release Date: 2004-03-21

Overview: The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

Rating: 8.1 (854 votes)

Release Date: 2013-03-17

Overview: Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.

Rating: 8.022 (435 votes)

Release Date: 1998-04-03

Overview: In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.

Rating: 8.5 (1755 votes)

Release Date: 2008-03-16

Overview: Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Rating: 7.669 (311 votes)

Release Date: 2005-08-28

Overview: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Rating: 8.247 (1355 votes)

Release Date: 2003-12-08

Overview: A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth.

Rating: 8.216 (890 votes)

Release Date: 2016-11-06

Overview: David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.

Rating: 8.6 (835 votes)

Release Date: 1994-05-08

Overview: After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Rating: 6.847 (481 votes)

Release Date: 2002-09-20

Overview: In the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, follow the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship.

Rating: 8.34 (2190 votes)

Release Date: 2015-08-28

Overview: A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Rating: 8.054 (2991 votes)

Release Date: 2013-04-04

Overview: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

Rating: 8.2 (2639 votes)

Release Date: 2016-02-15

Overview: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.

Rating: 7.768 (1577 votes)

Release Date: 1997-07-12

Overview: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Rating: 8 (772 votes)

Release Date: 2006-12-11

Overview: A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.

Rating: 7.737 (452 votes)

Release Date: 2012-05-28

Overview: It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.

Rating: 7.457 (336 votes)