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Best Biography TV Series of the 1960s

23 Biography series that started in the 1960s, ranked by popularity

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23 series

Omnibus

★ 7.2
334 764 1967–2003
Biography · Documentary · Music

The First Churchills

★ 8.1
301 12 1969–1969
Biography · Drama · History

The Caesars

★ 7.9
174 6 1968–1968
Biography · Drama · History

Hollywood Hist-o-Rama

★ 5.7
141 41 1961–present
Biography · Documentary

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

★ 8.9
137 27 1960–1963
Biography · Documentary

Biography

★ 8.1
107 66 1961–1964
Biography · Documentary · History

Profiles in Courage

★ 8.2
101 26 1964–1965
Biography · Drama · History

NET Playhouse

★ 6.6
62 194 1964–1972
Biography · Drama · History

Die Affaire Dreyfus

★ 8.8
30 3 1968–present
Biography · Drama

Krupp und Krause

★ 7.5
24 5 1969–1969
Biography · Drama

Vita di Dante

★ 6.8
22 3 1965–present
Biography · Drama · History

Caravaggio

★ 6.3
21 3 1967–present
Biography · Drama

Jean-Roch Coignet

★ 8.1
20 7 1969–present
Biography · History · War

Hans Beimler, Kamerad

★ 6.8
19 4 1969–1969
Biography · Drama · History

Goya

★ 8.3
18 2 1969–present
Biography · Drama

Lapsuuteni

★ 5.7
18 4 1967–present
Biography · Drama

Ogledalo gradjanina Pokornog

★ 7.7
17 10 1964–1964
Biography · Comedy

Ich - Axel Caesar Springer

★ 6.6
13 5 1968–present
Biography · History

Day of Discovery

★ 7.8
13 75 1968–2018
Biography · Documentary · History

La tormenta

★ 6.3
11 91 1967–1967
Biography · Drama · History

Rasputin

★ 7.8
10 2 1966–1966
Biography · Drama

Presidential Countdown

★ 7.0
10 2 1960–1960
Biography · News

Questa sera parla Mark Twain

★ 6.4
6 7 1965–present
Adventure · Biography · Drama
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