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Best History TV Series of the 1960s

59 History series that started in the 1960s, ranked by popularity

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59 series

Civilisation

★ 8.7
1K 14 1969–1970
Documentary · History · Music

Floris

★ 7.9
949 13 1969–1969
Action · Adventure · History

The Great War

★ 8.9
816 26 1964–1964
Documentary · History · War

Sherlock Holmes

★ 7.5
705 29 1964–1968
Crime · Drama · History

Up Pompeii!

★ 7.6
452 14 1969–1970
Comedy · History

The First Churchills

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

An Age of Kings

★ 8.3
184 15 1960–1960
Drama · History

The Caesars

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

Przygody pana Michala

★ 7.7
132 13 1969–1969
Adventure · Drama · History

Wuthering Heights

★ 6.5
123 4 1967–1967
Drama · History · Romance

How We Used to Live

★ 8.0
117 172 1968–1998
Family · History

Acts of the Apostles

★ 8.0
113 5 1969–present
History

World War One

★ 8.5
110 26 1964–present
Documentary · History · War

Biography

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

The Wars of the Roses

★ 8.4
106 14 1965–1966
Drama · History · War

Profiles in Courage

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

Operatsiya «Trest»

★ 7.1
100 4 1968–1968
Adventure · Drama · History

Don Quijote von der Mancha

★ 7.4
72 4 1965–1965
Adventure · Comedy · History

Le chevalier de Maison Rouge

★ 8.2
71 4 1963–1963
History · Romance

Richard the Lionheart

★ 7.4
71 39 1962–1963
Adventure · Family · History

NET Playhouse

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

Snatky z rozumu

★ 8.4
54 5 1968–present
Drama · History

Barnaby Rudge

★ 7.2
52 13 1960–1960
Drama · History

Battleline

★ 8.0
34 39 1963–present
Documentary · History · War
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