Shows Like Bomb Girls

If you liked Bomb Girls (2012), a drama and war & politics 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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Land Girls (2009)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and war & politics
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
2
Our Girl (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politics
Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.
3
The Crimson Field (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politics
In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
4
Combat! (1962)
★ 8/10Also war & politics and drama
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The…
5
A Small Light (2023)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politics
Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the…
6
12 O'Clock High (1964)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war & politics
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe…
7
Foyle's War (2002)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and war & politics
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the…
8
Army Wives (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.
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Hornblower (1998)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and war & politics
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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Nuremberg (2000)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and war & politics
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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The Sinking of the Laconia (2011)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and war & politics
The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
12
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly…
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Sharpe (1993)
★ 8/10Also war & politics
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not…
14
Pearson (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and drama
Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.
15
SkyMed (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying…
16
The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
In India, during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape sets off questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
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The State Within (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and war & politics
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes…
18
Sanditon (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
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JAG (1995)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related…
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North & South (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of…