Shows Like The Good Lord Bird

If you liked The Good Lord Bird (2020), a drama and western 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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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.
2
Hell on Wheels (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and western
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a…
3
Ransom Canyon (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and western
Passions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love.
4
Deadwood (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also western and drama
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless…
5
How the West Was Won (1977)
★ 7/10Also western and drama
The Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
6
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.
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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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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…
9
Warrior (2019)
★ 8/10Also drama and western
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to…
10
Billy the Kid (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also western and drama
An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in…
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Deputy (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also western and drama
When the Los Angeles County’s Sheriff dies, an arcane rule forged back in the Wild West thrusts the most unlikely man into the job: a fifth-generation lawman, more comfortable taking down bad guys than navigating a sea…
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Joe Pickett (2021)
★ 7/10Also drama and western
A game warden and his family navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming on the verge of economic collapse. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township…
13
The English (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and western
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
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1923 (2022)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and western
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call…
15
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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Walker Independence (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also western and drama
Set in the late 1800s, this origin story follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West, as she crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins, a lovable rogue in…
17
The Last Kingdom (2015)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and war & politics
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with…
18
Longmire (2012)
★ 7.7/10Also western and drama
A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.
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New Worlds (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and war & politics
New 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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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…