--- title: "War & Politics series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/genre/war-and-politics" region: "US" total: 27 shown: 27 licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # War & Politics series Every war & politics series we have reviewed, newest release first. For US. 27 titles; 27 listed here. Add `?region=XX` for another country. - [*Trespasses*](https://film.one/tv/trespasses.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 80 · Drama/War & Politics Lola Petticrew and Gillian Anderson are excellent in this sharp Belfast drama. The central affair is occasionally unpersuasive, but its family troubles and the pressures of sectarian division make four episodes well worth the time. - [*Hostage*](https://film.one/tv/hostage.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 64 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics · on Netflix Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy keep *Hostage* watchable through political crises that rarely withstand scrutiny. Across five brisk episodes, it offers enough tension for thriller devotees, but little reason to take its politics seriously. - [*Mussolini: Son of the Century*](https://film.one/tv/mussolini-son-of-the-century.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 80 · Drama/War & Politics Luca Marinelli makes Mussolini both repellent and disturbingly watchable in Joe Wright’s often gripping political drama. We recommend it, with one reservation: eight episodes of speeches and restless theatricality make for tiring company. - [*The Sympathizer*](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 72 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics · on HBO Max Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar turn Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel into a stylish, frequently funny spy story told from the Vietnamese side. Hoa Xuande is superb; Robert Downey Jr.’s five roles are a joke the series tells too often, and the middle episodes drift. - [*The Diplomat*](https://film.one/tv/the-diplomat.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 76 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics · on Netflix *The Diplomat* is good company when Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell are making each other’s lives difficult. The politics need more scrutiny than the series gives them, but the prickly relationships earn another episode. - [*For All Mankind*](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) — 2019 · Fi1m 66 · TV-MA · Drama/Sci-Fi & Fantasy · on Apple TV An alternate space race in which the Soviets land first, told with real feeling for hardware and a slow hand with people. The first season takes six episodes to find its footing; when it does, on the moon and in the women’s programme, it is worth the wait. - [*Years and Years*](https://film.one/tv/years-and-years.md) — 2019 · Fi1m 79 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Drama/War & Politics · on HBO Max Russell T Davies makes an anxious, absorbing family drama out of political upheaval and technological change. The Lyons family is given too many issues to illustrate, but the performances keep us worrying about the people. - [*The Little Drummer Girl*](https://film.one/tv/the-little-drummer-girl.md) — 2018 · Fi1m 76 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics Park Chan-wook shoots John le Carré’s novel in the loudest colours the seventies had to offer, and Florence Pugh holds the centre of every frame. It dawdles in the middle and the romance goes round twice, but the last two episodes are properly tense. - [*Bodyguard*](https://film.one/tv/bodyguard.md) — 2018 · Fi1m 77 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Crime/Drama · on Netflix Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes make *Bodyguard* worth the strain it puts on the nerves. Jed Mercurio keeps the suspense tight, though the accumulating complications and thin politics ask for more indulgence than they deserve. - [*Show Me a Hero*](https://film.one/tv/show-me-a-hero.md) — 2015 · Fi1m 78 · TV-MA · 1h 00m · Crime/Drama David Simon’s six-part account of a housing fight in 1980s Yonkers is patient, well acted and, in Oscar Isaac’s young mayor, has a lead performance worth six hours of anyone’s time. Paul Haggis directs as if he does not trust the writing, and the Springsteen songs say everything twice. - [*The Honourable Woman*](https://film.one/tv/the-honourable-woman.md) — 2014 · Fi1m 80 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics Hugo Blick’s eight-part thriller about an Anglo-Israeli businesswoman, a West Bank contract and a death in a hotel room is slow, handsome and full of people speaking in riddles. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Stephen Rea make the patience worth it, mostly. - [*Vikings*](https://film.one/tv/vikings.md) — 2013 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · Action & Adventure/Drama · on Netflix Michael Hirst’s historical drama is worth following for its battles, its countryside and Travis Fimmel. The dialogue can be painfully blunt, but the performances give the fighting enough human consequence to keep us interested. - [*Parade's End*](https://film.one/tv/parades-end.md) — 2012 · Fi1m 80 · TV-MA · 58m · Drama/War & Politics · on HBO Max Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall make *Parade’s End* worth the effort. Tom Stoppard’s demanding adaptation is funny, bruising and sometimes needlessly difficult to follow, with performances that keep its intelligence from becoming a barrier. - [*Veep*](https://film.one/tv/veep.md) — 2012 · Fi1m 82 · TV-MA · Comedy/War & Politics · on HBO Max Armando Iannucci brings his contempt for politicians across the Atlantic and Julia Louis-Dreyfus gives it a face. The first season is a warm-up and the last is too loud, but the five in between are as funny as television about power gets. - [*Homeland*](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md) — 2011 · Fi1m 78 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics · on Hulu, Netflix Claire Danes and Damian Lewis hold a first season as tight and doubtful as any spy thriller television has made. It runs to eight seasons; it has said its piece by the end of the third, and those we recommend warmly. - [*The Hour*](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md) — 2011 · Fi1m 70 · TV-14 · 1h 00m · Drama/War & Politics · on The Roku Channel, Tubi Abi Morgan’s 1950s BBC newsroom is well dressed, well acted and about half the drama it wants to be. Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai carry it; the spy plot they keep tripping over does not deserve them. - [*The Pacific*](https://film.one/tv/the-pacific.md) — 2010 · Fi1m 74 · TV-MA · Drama/Action & Adventure · on HBO Max Bruce McKenna’s ten-part follow-up to *Band of Brothers* is bleaker, harder to follow and less easy to love, and for three episodes we struggled to tell the Marines apart. Stay with it: from the midpoint it is a fine, punishing piece of work. - [*Generation Kill*](https://film.one/tv/generation-kill.md) — 2008 · Fi1m 84 · TV-MA · War & Politics/Drama · on HBO Max David Simon and Ed Burns make the Marines’ boredom, banter and confusion into absorbing television. The dense military language can be exhausting, but the performances and attention to ordinary detail reward the effort. - [*Band of Brothers*](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md) — 2001 · Fi1m 89 · TV-MA · Drama/War & Politics · on HBO Max *Band of Brothers* earns its ten episodes through patient attention to the men of Easy Company. Damian Lewis anchors a moving ensemble drama, with occasional overstatement in the action and music the chief reservation. - [*Our Friends in the North*](https://film.one/tv/our-friends-in-the-north.md) — 1996 · Fi1m 88 · 1h 10m · Drama/War & Politics *Our Friends in the North* earns its length through performances that make political disappointment painfully personal. Peter Flannery sometimes rushes the public history, but the domestic scenes have the patience, warmth and difficult silences that keep us watching. - [*House of Cards*](https://film.one/tv/house-of-cards.md) — 1990 · Fi1m 84 · TV-14 · 55m · War & Politics/Comedy · on BritBox, Peacock Ian Richardson makes this sharply written political thriller a disreputable pleasure. The supporting characters need more life of their own, but the scheming is brisk, funny and worth the time it asks of us. - [*Yes Minister*](https://film.one/tv/yes-minister.md) — 1980 · Fi1m 89 · TV-PG · 30m · Comedy/War & Politics · on Tubi Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay’s comedy about a minister and the mandarin who manages him is still the sharpest thing British television has said about government. Every episode has the same shape, and after four in a row it shows; that is a small price. - [*Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*](https://film.one/tv/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-1979.md) — 1979 · Fi1m 88 · 50m · War & Politics/Drama Arthur Hopcraft and John Irvin turn le Carré’s mole hunt into seven hours of listening, and Alec Guinness makes the listening the drama. It asks for patience and rewards it, though one stretch in the middle tests the deal. - [*I, Claudius*](https://film.one/tv/i-claudius.md) — 1976 · Fi1m 90 · TV-14 · 55m · Drama/War & Politics Derek Jacobi leads a political family drama whose wit makes its cruelty more disturbing. The sets have aged, and some performances lean towards the stage, but the writing and acting make this an easy recommendation. - [*The World at War*](https://film.one/tv/the-world-at-war.md) — 1973 · Fi1m 90 · TV-PG · 1h 00m · Documentary/War & Politics *The World at War* is absorbing, distressing television that deserves the time it asks for. Its archive footage and eyewitness accounts make the Second World War difficult to regard as a safely distant subject. - [*M*A*S*H*](https://film.one/tv/m-a-s-h-1972.md) — 1972 · Fi1m 85 · TV-PG · War & Politics/Drama · on Hulu Larry Gelbart’s *M*A*S*H* is a funny, humane war comedy with a few stubborn blind spots. Alan Alda leads an ensemble worth getting to know, provided we can forgive the dated jokes and occasional lectures. - [*Dad's Army*](https://film.one/tv/dads-army.md) — 1968 · Fi1m 86 · 30m · Comedy/War & Politics *Dad’s Army* is a sharply acted military comedy with an unusually tender view of its soldiers. Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier justify the repeated routines, though some episodes rely too heavily on familiar behaviour. --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/tv/genre/war-and-politics