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Shows that feel likeThe Pacific (2010)

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.

If you loved The Pacific, the closest series we have are SEAL Team (2017), The Last Kingdom (2015) and Band of Brothers (2001). All three share The Pacific'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).

★ 8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · HBOcreated by Bruce C. McKennacontemplativekineticepicbleak
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If The Pacific hit the spot, these will too

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

The weight soldiers carry home matters as much as the firefights

The difference: Ongoing network procedural — missions of the week, not one finite story

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 & politicsNetflix

War as an ordeal that grinds men down while history rolls over them

The difference: Shield walls and saga sweep instead of documentary weight

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

Its companion piece — real soldiers' memories turned into television

The difference: The European theater, more brotherhood and less sheer attrition

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

Battlefield chaos shot big, with the cost written on survivors' faces

The difference: Legend-building sequel drama — history as backdrop, not testimony

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

Military discipline holding the line while the world falls apart

The difference: Pulpy apocalypse hook — spectacle first, scars second

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

A marksman's discipline set against forces bigger than any one man

The difference: Conspiracy-thriller plotting — slick, disposable, never haunted

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

Both land momentum and scale at once

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Pacific

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

Contemplative and bleak in the same breath

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Violence choreographed beautifully in a world stripped of mercy

The difference: Stylized martial-arts fantasy where the fights are the point

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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Falling Skies
2011–2015 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Ordinary people forged into soldiers by a war they never wanted

The difference: Alien-invasion pulp with a network-TV softness to its losses

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

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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 Pacific does

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

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