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Shows that feel like Fauda (2015–)

If you loved Fauda, the closest series we have are Vikings: Valhalla (2022), SEAL Team (2017) and The Last Kingdom (2015). All three share Fauda's contemplative and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.

8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗5 seasons · yescreated by Avi Issacharoffcontemplativekineticepicbleak
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If Fauda hit the spot, these will too

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Vikings: Valhalla
2022–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
7.4action & adventure · drama · war & politics

The same mix in both: stillness, then momentum

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

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SEAL Team
2017–2024 · 7 seasons · CBS
7.9action & adventure · drama · war & politics

Epic and bleak in the same breath

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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 & politics

One thread runs through both: undercover agent

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Fauda

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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Akame ga Kill!
2014 · 1 season · Tokyo MX
7.7animation · drama · action & adventure

Action & adventure with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Fauda does

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.

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Into the Badlands
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · AMC
7.9action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Epic war & politics, and it commits to that

In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

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

Bleak drama in both cases

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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Shooter
2016–2018 · 3 seasons · USA Network
7.5action & adventure · war & politics · drama

Action & adventure built on stillness, twice over

Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.

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The Last Ship
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · TNT
7.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Kinetic war & politics, and it commits to that

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

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Vinland Saga
2019– · 2 seasons · NHK G
8.8animation · war & politics · action & adventure

Drama with a pulse of scale, in both cases

For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.

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Z Nation
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · Syfy
6.7mystery · action & adventure · drama

Bleak action & adventure in both cases

Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

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The Walking Dead: Dead City
2023– · 3 seasons · AMC
7action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Drama of the same temperament

Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

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