Shows Like Spartacus

If you liked Spartacus (2004), a action & adventure 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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Spartacus: House of Ashur (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and action & adventure
In a world where he survived the events of Spartacus, Ashur clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him. Allying with a fierce gladiatrix, Ashur ignites a new kind of spectacle that offends the…
2
The Terminal List (2022)
★ 8/10Also action & adventure and drama
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned…
3
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and action & adventure
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
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Black Sails (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and action & adventure
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking…
5
World on Fire (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politics
The 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 Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also action & adventure and drama
Before The Terminal List, Navy SEAL Ben Edwards finds himself entangled in the black operations side of the CIA. The deeper Ben goes into the 'gray', the harder it will become to not give himself over to his darker…
7
Sandokan (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
Sandokan is a Malaysian pirate who, along with his friend Yanez and their crew, attacks the British forces from his island of Mompracem. During his adventures, he falls in love with Lady Marianna Guillonk, an…
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SAS Rogue Heroes (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politics
The 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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Into the Badlands (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and drama
In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese…
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Traitors (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also war & politics and drama
1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.
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Troy: Fall of a City (2018)
★ 5.8/10Also action & adventure and war & politics
Told from the perspective of the Trojan Family, the rich history of the Trojan War is explored, as well as the love, intrigue and betrayal of those who lived through it. On a trip to Sparta as a guest of Menelaus…
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The Long Road Home (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also war & politics and drama
Relive 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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Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and drama
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and…
14
Dune: Prophecy (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and action & adventure
Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.
15
WCW Monday Nitro (1995)
★ 8.3/10Also action & adventure and drama
WCW's flagship show led to the famous Monday Night War. Featuring the nWo, Lex Luger, Ric Flair, Sting, and the Cruiserweights.
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also war & politics and drama
The 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 Pacific (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and action & adventure
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…
18
Falling Skies (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also action & adventure and drama
Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside…
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The Ipcress File (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also action & adventure and drama
As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he must use his links to find a missing British nuclear scientist.
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The Good Lord Bird (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and war & politics
Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the…