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Shows that feel likeBand of Brothers (2001)

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.

If you loved Band of Brothers, the closest series we have are Shōgun (2024), The Pacific (2010) and The Last Kingdom (2015). All three share Band of Brothers' contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is 12 Monkeys (2015).

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If Band of Brothers hit the spot, these will too

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Shōgun
2024– · 1 season · FX
★ 8.6drama · war & politicsHuluDisney+

History rebuilt in exacting detail, with death always one decision away

The difference: Court intrigue and language barriers rather than mud, cold and combat

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

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The Pacific
2010 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.3drama · action & adventure · war & politicsMax

The same WWII project turned on another ocean, veterans' testimony and all

The difference: Bleaker and more fractured — three men adrift, less unit brotherhood

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

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The Last Kingdom
2015–2022 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.5action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Shield walls and loyalty oaths, with battle staged for weight not spectacle

The difference: Fiction with one hero at the centre, and five seasons of court scheming

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.

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Lioness
2023– · 3 seasons · Paramount+
★ 7.8drama · war & politicsParamount+

The professional soldier's cost: the mission goes on, the person frays

The difference: Contemporary covert work, tighter focus, none of the ensemble scale

Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.

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Vikings
2013–2020 · 6 seasons · Prime Video
★ 8.5action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Warriors bound by oath, and the slow attrition that thins their ranks

The difference: Myth, prophecy and dynasty over six seasons, far from any factual record

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.

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The Last of Us
2023– · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4dramaMax

Endurance across ruined ground, where staying human is the real fight

The difference: A two-hander built on one bond, not a company you slowly come to know

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

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The Man in the High Castle
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

The Second World War taken seriously as the century's hinge

The difference: Alt-history espionage — the Allies lost

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

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SEAL Team
2017–2024 · 7 seasons · CBS
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflixParamount+

Elite soldiers, the detail of mission prep, and the toll waiting at home

The difference: Weekly network procedural, seven seasons, invented ops instead of record

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.

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Silo
2023– · 4 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.1sci-fi & fantasy · dramaApple TV+

People holding to duty inside a system that will spend them

The difference: Science fiction, contained and much slower

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

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12 Monkeys
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: stillness, then bleakness

The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than Band of Brothers does

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

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War of the Worlds
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Ordinary people enduring a catastrophe that keeps taking more

The difference: Alien invasion, contemporary and much smaller

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?

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Sweet Tooth
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

On an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.

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