Shows Like Drawing Sword

If you liked Drawing Sword (2005), 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.

1
The Qin Empire (2009)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and war & politics
The rise of the Qin state in the Warring States period during the reign of Duke Xiao of Qin.
2
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.
3
The Vendetta of An (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politics
Xie Huai'an, son of the Huben Army's creator, survives his family's massacre. After ten long years in hiding, he returns to Chang'an disguised as a lowly registrar, moving step by step through jianghu clashes and…
4
The Terminal List (2022)
★ 8/10Also 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…
5
The Advisors Alliance (2017)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and war & politics
The story of Sima Yi, a great politician and strategist who lived during the Three Kingdoms era. By his side, Sima Yi has his politically-astute distaff members of his household, and pitted against them are the…
6
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.
7
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.
8
War and Remembrance (1988)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and war & politics
Following 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…
9
Shōgun (2024)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and war & politics
In 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…
10
Lioness (2023)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and war & politics
Cruz 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…
11
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war & politics
Dorrigo 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.
12
Generation Kill (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also war & politics and drama
The 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…
13
The Long Ballad (2021)
★ 8.6/10Also war & politics
Li Chang Ge's family was murdered by Li Shi Min, the Emperor of Tang, during the Xuanwu Gate Incident. She heads to Shuo Province under the guise of a man with hopes of raising an army to kill Li Shi Min to avenge her…
14
Kung Fu (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also 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…
15
Band of Brothers (2001)
★ 8.6/10Also drama and war & politics
Drawn 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…
16
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politics
The 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.
17
Rome (2005)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
18
Tour of Duty (1987)
★ 8.1/10Also war & politics and drama
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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Homeland (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and war & politics
CIA 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…
20
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.