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Best 2000s History TV Series

Explore the highest-rated 2000s History television shows. Classic nostalgia and memorable series from the 2000s.

#1. Band of Brothers (2001–)

★ 8.6/10 4,346 votes

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 an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

#2. The Century of the Self (2002–)

★ 8.4/10 124 votes

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.

#3. Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009–)

★ 8.4/10 157 votes

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

#4. Foyle's War (2002–)

★ 7.9/10 110 votes

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

#5. Generation Kill (2008–)

★ 7.9/10 539 votes

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 forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

#6. World War II in Colour (2009–)

★ 7.6/10 280 votes

World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the Pacific War. It is on syndication in America on the Military Channel. This series is in full color, combining both original and colorized footage.

#7. Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (2005–)

★ 7.6/10 196 votes

This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

#8. Nuremberg (2000–)

★ 7.4/10 137 votes

Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.

#9. The Diary of Anne Frank (2009–)

★ 7.3/10 373 votes

Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.

#10. Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003–)

★ 7.1/10 375 votes

This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

#11. Les Misérables (2000–)

★ 6.9/10 106 votes

Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.