Shows Like The Liberator
If you liked The Liberator (2020), a war & politics and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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War and Remembrance (1988)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and war & politicsFollowing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific…
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World on Fire (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politicsThe story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
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The Pacific (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politicsTrack 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…
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Band of Brothers (2001)
★ 8.6/10Also drama and war & politicsDrawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As…
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Masters of the Air (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politicsDuring World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
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Tour of Duty (1987)
★ 8.1/10Also war & politics and dramaThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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The Long Road Home (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also war & politics and dramaRelive a heroic fight for survival during the Iraq War, when the 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood was ferociously ambushed on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City, Baghdad — a day that came to be known in military annals as…
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SEAL Team (2017)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politicsMilitary drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.
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Generation Kill (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also war & politics and dramaThe 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…
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Ultimate Force (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and war & politicsThis covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group.
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SAS Rogue Heroes (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politicsThe dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war & politicsDorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway during WWII, is haunted by his time as a POW, as well as a forbidden affair he had with his uncle's wife prior to the war.
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Lioness (2023)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and war & politicsCruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness…
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Over There (2005)
★ 6.8/10Also war & politics and dramaGritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally…
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Shōgun (2024)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and war & politicsIn Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found…
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Homeland (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and war & politicsCIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her…
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politicsThe powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also war & politics and dramaThe story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
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The Last Post (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and war & politicsDrama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
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The Passing Bells (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politicsAt the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents to sign up. An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two…