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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

The Empress of the Dynasty

★ 6.8
13 1985–1986
Biography · Drama · History

What Do Those Old Films Mean?

★ 7.7
13 6 1986–present
Biography · Documentary · History

I ragazzi di celluloide

★ 5.1
12 6 1981–present
Biography · Drama · History

Vita di Antonio Gramsci

★ 6.1
12 4 1981–present
Biography

L'ami Maupassant

★ 6.1
12 6 1986–1986
Biography · Drama

Laurier

★ 6.3
12 1984–present
Biography · Drama

Der Club

★ 6.0
12 1485 1985–present
Biography

Tennou no ryouriban

★ 7.9
11 19 1980–1981
Biography · Drama

Dni i gody Nikolaya Batygina

★ 7.0
11 5 1987–present
Biography · Drama

Ivan Babushkin

★ 7.0
11 2 1985–present
Biography · History

Tri spory

★ 7.6
10 3 1981–1982
Biography · Drama · History

Królewskie sny

★ 6.3
10 8 1988–1988
Biography · Drama · History

Don Luigi Sturzo

★ 6.4
10 3 1981–present
Biography · Drama · History

Junacko koleno

★ 8.6
10 6 1984–present
Biography · Family · History

Kaj Munk

★ 6.1
10 4 1986–1986
Biography · Drama · History

Mon dernier rêve sera pour vous

★ 9.0
10 6 1989–1989
Biography · Drama

Ne imeyushchiy china

★ 5.1
9 1985–present
Biography · History

V.I. Lenin. Stranitsy zhizni

★ 6.5
9 27 1982–1988
Biography · Documentary · History

Cahide

★ 7.8
9 1 1989–1989
Biography · Drama

Martin Luther King

★ 6.8
9 1985–present
Biography · Documentary

Colette

★ 7.6
9 3 1985–1985
Biography · Drama · History

The British Greats

★ 6.2
9 5 1980–present
Biography

Elämän vonkamies - juuret Iijoen törmässä

★ 7.1
8 2 1989–1989
Biography · Drama

Dette er ditt liv

★ 4.8
8 21 1985–1995
Biography · Reality-TV
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