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Best Biography TV Series of the 1980s

150 Biography series that started in the 1980s, ranked by popularity

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150 series

Nancy Astor

★ 8.5
123 9 1982–1982
Biography · Drama · History

Johann Sebastian Bach

★ 8.2
122 4 1985–1985
Biography · Drama · Music

Freud

★ 7.5
122 6 1984–1984
Biography · Drama · History

20-e dekabrya

★ 6.6
119 4 1982–1982
Biography · Crime · History

The Cleopatras

★ 6.8
116 8 1983–1983
Biography · Drama · History

Young Charlie Chaplin

★ 7.0
97 6 1989–1989
Biography · Comedy · Drama

Królowa Bona

★ 7.7
95 12 1980–present
Biography · Drama · History

Mozart

★ 8.1
85 6 1982–1982
Biography · Drama · History

I Remember Nelson

★ 7.5
81 4 1982–1982
Adventure · Biography · Drama

Otkrytaya kniga

★ 7.3
75 9 1980–1980
Biography · Drama

August Strindberg: Ett liv

★ 7.0
73 6 1985–1985
Biography · Drama

Amirkabir

★ 7.6
70 1985–1985
Biography · Drama · History

Number 10

★ 8.2
70 7 1983–1983
Biography · Drama · History

Dokugan-ryu Masamune

★ 7.8
68 50 1987–1987
Biography · Drama · History

Ramón y Cajal

★ 7.8
68 9 1982–1982
Biography · Drama

Carl Jung: Wisdom of the Dream

★ 7.4
68 3 1989–present
Biography · Documentary

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

★ 8.0
67 9 1981–1981
Biography · Drama · History

Goya

★ 7.3
66 6 1985–1985
Biography · Drama

The Search for Alexander the Great

★ 7.2
64 4 1981–1981
Adventure · Biography · Drama

Ein Stück Himmel

★ 8.5
56 10 1982–1986
Biography · Drama

Ten Great Writers of the Modern World

★ 8.5
54 11 1988–1988
Biography · Documentary · Drama

Oscar

★ 6.8
53 3 1985–1985
Biography · Drama · History

Karl Marks. Molodye gody

★ 6.7
51 7 1980–1981
Biography · Drama · History

Chetyre vechera s Vladimirom Vysotskim

★ 7.5
51 4 1987–present
Biography · Documentary · Music
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