Shows Like Roots
If you liked Roots (2016), a drama and action & adventure 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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The Book of Negroes (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaKidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in…
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Shōgun (2024)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaIn 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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Washington Black (2025)
★ 6/10Also drama and action & adventure11-year-old George Washington "Wash" Black embarks on a globe-trotting journey of identity after fleeing a Barbados sugar plantation aboard a flying machine in the company of his master’s eccentric inventor brother.
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Black Sails (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and action & adventureThe 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…
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Most Dangerous Game (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and action & adventureDesperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey.
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Kindred (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.
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The Day of the Jackal (2024)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and action & adventureAn unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who…
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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAmanda Knox arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. Follow Knox's relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and…
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Banshee: Origins (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and action & adventureBanshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when…
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New Worlds (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and action & adventureNew Worlds is a four-part 2014 British television drama serial created by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, a follow-up to their 2008 series The Devil's Whore, produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4. During the…
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Fallen (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and action & adventureThe phenomenal journey of Aaron Corbett, an 18-year-old Nephilim (half-angel/half human), as he struggles to come to terms with his role as The Redeemer and is drawn into a world where angels walk among us.
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Underground (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people…
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Broken Trail (2006)
★ 7/10Also action & adventure and dramaThe story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese…
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Obsession (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA respected London surgeon's affair with his son's fiancée turns into an erotic infatuation that threatens to change their lives forever.
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The Slap (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaHector and his wife Aisha plan a party for family and friends, but the day doesn't turn out as they expected when Hector's hot-headed cousin Harry slaps a misbehaving child. The party ends abruptly with the child's…
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El Conde: Amor y Honor (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and action & adventureA wrongful conviction changes the life of Alejandro Gaitán and separates him from the woman he loves, Mariana Zambrano. After 17 years in jail, he becomes a count with the help of another prisoner and seeks revenge on…
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Tracker (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaLone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own…
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also 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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Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and dramaA 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…
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The Madness (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and action & adventureAfter a media pundit stumbles upon a dead body deep in the Poconos woods, he finds himself framed for the murder of a notorious white supremacist.