Shows Like Catch-22
If you liked Catch-22 (2019), a comedy 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.
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Masters of the Air (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politicsDuring World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
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Band of Brothers (2001)
★ 8.6/10Also drama and war & politicsDrawn 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…
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War and Remembrance (1988)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and war & politicsFollowing 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…
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Generation Kill (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also war & politics and dramaThe 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…
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The Pacific (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politicsTrack 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…
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and war & politicsDorrigo 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.
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SAS Rogue Heroes (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and war & politicsThe 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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Tour of Duty (1987)
★ 8.1/10Also war & politics and dramaThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2024)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politicsThe 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.
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Lioness (2023)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and war & politicsCruz 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…
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A Spy Among Friends (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also war & politics and dramaFollow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
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World on Fire (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and war & politicsThe 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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Shōgun (2024)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and war & politicsIn 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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Interior Chinatown (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedyWillis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural, tries to find his way into the larger story–and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family's buried history.
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SEAL Team (2017)
★ 8/10Also drama and war & politicsMilitary drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.
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The Long Road Home (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also war & politics and dramaRelive 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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Obliterated (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaA special forces team thwarts a deadly plot in Sin City and parties accordingly. But when the real threat emerges, they must sober up to save Las Vegas.
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also war & politics and 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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Zero Day (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and war & politicsA former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.
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The Flight Attendant (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedyFlight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room hungover from the night before in Dubai with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened. In New…