Shows Like Young Catherine

If you liked Young Catherine (1991), 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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I, Claudius (1976)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politics
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
2
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…
3
War and Peace (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
4
Shōgun (1980)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and war & politics
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
5
The Winds of War (1983)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and drama
Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous…
6
Lady Chatterley (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
7
Restless (2012)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and war & politics
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
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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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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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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…
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Neverwhere (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below…
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Pearson (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also war & politics and drama
Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.
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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…
14
Sons of Liberty (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.
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Bomb Girls (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war & politics
Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
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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.
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Wolf Hall (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The…
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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.
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The New Avengers (1976)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A…
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Our World War (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Our World War is a gripping factual drama series offering viewers first-hand experience of the extraordinary bravery of young soldiers fighting 100 years ago. Drawing on real stories of World War One soldiers it uses…