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500 series (top 500 shown)

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

★ 7.7
326 3 2024–2024
Documentary · History

Fall in Love

★ 7.6
325 36 2021–2021
Drama · History · Romance

The Queen Who Crowns

★ 7.6
325 12 2025–2025
Drama · History · Romance

Indivisible: Healing Hate

★ 4.8
324 6 2022–2022
Crime · Documentary · History

Secrets of the Hells Angels

★ 6.8
319 8 2024–present
Crime · Documentary · History

The Monument Mythos

★ 8.2
318 38 2020–2023
Documentary · Fantasy · History

Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets

★ 8.0
316 6 2020–present
Documentary · History

Last to Brake

★ 8.4
316 6 2024–2024
Biography · Drama · History

Glory

★ 7.5
312 36 2025–present
Drama · History · Romance

Pompeii: The New Dig

★ 7.7
311 4 2024–2025
Documentary · History

The Great War

★ 7.1
310 2 2024–present
Documentary · History · War

Annem Ankara

★ 5.4
310 15 2024–2025
Drama · History

Pirates: Behind the Legends

★ 7.3
305 8 2024–2024
Biography · Documentary · History

Exodus

★ 5.8
305 17 2022–2023
Documentary · History · Talk-Show

Equal

★ 7.5
304 4 2020–present
Documentary · History

Seqalu: Formosa 1867

★ 7.3
303 12 2021–2021
History

Ashes to Crown

★ 6.7
300 24 2026–present
Drama · Fantasy · History

Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols

★ 7.3
297 6 2025–present
Biography · Documentary · History

Maid's Revenge

★ 6.6
297 30 2022–present
Drama · History · Romance

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes

★ 8.2
295 3 2024–2024
Documentary · History · War

The Prague Mysteries

★ 6.9
292 10 2020–2021
Crime · History · Mystery

Into the Wild Frontier

★ 8.0
292 31 2022–present
Biography · Drama · History

Schwarzes Gold

★ 5.7
291 7 2025–present
Drama · History · Western

Wishing Stone

★ 5.3
290 20 2023–2024
Drama · History
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