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Vikings (2013 - 2021)

8.5 /10

The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

Average Episode Run Time: 44` . Year(s): 2013 - 2021

Director: Sarah Harding , Kelly Makin , Katheryn Winnick

Producer: Nuala Moiselle , Michael Hirst , Frank Moiselle

Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen , Jordan Patrick Smith , Marco Ilsø , Peter Franzén , Georgia Hirst , Danila Kozlovsky

M*A*S*H (1972 - 1983)

0 /10

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

Average Episode Run Time: 26` . Year(s): 1972 - 1983

Director: Alan Rafkin , William Wiard , Mike Farrell

Producer: Joyce Robinson , John Rappaport , Dan Wilcox

Stars: Alan Alda , Mike Farrell , Loretta Swit , Jamie Farr , Harry Morgan , David Ogden Stiers

Homeland (2011 - 2020)

8.3 /10

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

Average Episode Run Time: 53` . Year(s): 2011 - 2020

Director: Daniel Minahan , Michael Klick , Clark Johnson

Producer: Ava Ticotin , Claire Danes , Lynn Marocola

Stars: Claire Danes , Maury Sterling , Numan Acar , Nimrat Kaur , Mandy Patinkin , Linus Roache

The Last Kingdom (2015 - 2022)

0 /10

A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

Average Episode Run Time: 56` . Year(s): 2015 - 2022

Director: David Moore , Sarah O'Gorman , Claire Elizabeth Alberie

Producer: David O'Donoghue , Martha Hillier , Victor Jenkins

Stars: Alexander Dreymon , Emily Cox , Eliza Butterworth , Mark Rowley , Ruby Hartley , Cavan Clerkin

Hogan's Heroes (1965 - 1971)

0 /10

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 1965 - 1971

Director: Bob Sweeney , Edward H. Feldman , Jerry London

Producer: Edward H. Feldman , Jack Good

Stars: Bob Crane , Richard Dawson , Robert Clary , Larry Hovis , Werner Klemperer , John Banner

Foyle's War (2002 - 2015)

8.6 /10

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Average Episode Run Time: 2hr . Year(s): 2002 - 2015

Director: Gavin Millar , Stuart Orme , Jeremy Silberston

Stars: Michael Kitchen , Honeysuckle Weeks , Michael Simkins , Bill Thomas , Emily Blunt , Murray McArthur

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018 - 2023)

0 /10

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.

Average Episode Run Time: 51` . Year(s): 2018 - 2023

Director: Jann Turner , Andrew Bernstein , Patricia Riggen

Producer: Aaron Lam , Matt Thunell

Stars: John Krasinski , Wendell Pierce , Abbie Cornish , Okieriete Onaodowan , Louis Ozawa , Zuleikha Robinson

Combat! (1962 - 1967)

0 /10

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . Year(s): 1962 - 1967

Director: Jus Addiss , Bernard McEveety , Tom Gries

Stars: Rick Jason , Vic Morrow , Jack Hogan , Pierre Jalbert , Conlan Carter , Dick Peabody

SEAL Team (2017 - 2022)

0 /10

Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.

Average Episode Run Time: 44` . Year(s): 2017 - 2022

Director: Christine Moore , J. Michael Muro , Jann Turner

Producer: Ava Ticotin , Jeremy Zaugg

Stars: David Boreanaz , Max Thieriot , Neil Brown Jr. , A.J. Buckley , Toni Trucks , Tyler Grey

Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976 - 1978)

7.6 /10

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . Year(s): 1976 - 1978

Director: John Peyser , Lawrence Doheny , Walter Doniger

Producer: Chuck Bowman , Russ Mayberry , Chas. Floyd Johnson

Stars: Robert Conrad , Simon Oakland , Dana Elcar , Dirk Blocker , W.K. Stratton , James Whitmore Jr.

Band of Brothers (2001)

9.4 /10

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 2` . Year(s): 2001

Director: Tony To , David Nutter , Christopher Newman

Producer: Cami Patton , Tony To , Suzanne Smith

Stars: Damian Lewis , Donnie Wahlberg , David Schwimmer , Eion Bailey , Ron Livingston , Matthew Settle

The Rat Patrol (1966 - 1968)

0 /10

The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".

Average Episode Run Time: 30` . Year(s): 1966 - 1968

Director: Paul Stanley , Leon Benson , Lawrence Dobkin

Stars: Christopher George , Gary Raymond , Eric Braeden , Lawrence P. Casey , Justin Tarr , Morgan Jones