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Shows that feel likeThe Last Kingdom (2015–2022)

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.

If you loved The Last Kingdom, the closest series we have are Vikings (2013), The Pacific (2010) and Shōgun (2024). All three share The Last Kingdom's contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shooter (2016).

★ 8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗5 seasons · Netflixcreated by Stephen Butchardkineticepiccontemplativebleak
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Hulu
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If The Last Kingdom hit the spot, these will too

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

Shield walls, shifting loyalties, and old gods clashing with the new faith

The difference: Later seasons sprawl and sag after the strongest arcs end

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

War rendered as grinding cost on the men who fight it, not glory

The difference: Real WWII history — no swords, no kings, no saga sweep

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

An outsider learning a brutal land's rules while warlords circle a throne

The difference: Slower and stiller — talk and ritual carry more than steel

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

Brotherhood forged in combat, and the toll it takes back home

The difference: Procedural mission-of-the-week rhythm, not one sweeping saga

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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Band of Brothers
2001 · 1 season · HBO
★ 9.4drama · war & politicsMax

One band of men bound by war, followed across years of it

The difference: Sober WWII realism — none of the saga romance or swagger

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.

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then bleakness

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than The Last Kingdom does

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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Has Fallen
2024– · 2 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5action & adventure · war & politicsHulu

Both land momentum and scale at once

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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

A lone warrior crossing a lawless feudal land ruled by rival lords

The difference: Stylized wuxia fights over grounded historical grit

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 Handmaid's Tale
2017–2025 · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

Kinetic action & adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than The Last Kingdom does

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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

Epic drama in both cases

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

War & politics with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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 Witcher
2019– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureNetflix

Both lean on bleakness more than on action & adventure

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

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