Best War & Politics tv shows of 2019
TOP 12: Designated Survivor
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Release: 2016
Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
TOP 11: SEAL Team
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
Release: 2017
The lives of the elite Navy Seals as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask.
TOP 10: Homeland
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
Release: 2011
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.
TOP 9: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
Release: 2018
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.
TOP 8: Attack on Titan
Original Title: 進撃の巨人
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, War & Politics
Release: 2013
Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest Titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a Titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a Colossal Titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller Titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single Titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
TOP 7: M*A*S*H
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War & Politics
Release: 1972
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.
TOP 6: Blackadder
Genre: Comedy, War & Politics
Release: 1983
Through four series and a few specials, Edmund Blackadder and his greasy sidekick Baldrick conjure up cunning plans as Edmund tries to take advantage of desperate times. These situation tragedies had obvious parallels from the Dark Ages to Elizabethan times, the rule of mad George III, and The Great War.
TOP 5: Generation Kill
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
Release: 2008
The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.
TOP 4: Das Boot
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Release: 1987
In the Autumn of 1941, a young war correspondent is assigned to accompany German submarine U-96 on a patrol through the Atlantic.
TOP 3: Bodyguard
Genre: Crime, Drama, War & Politics
Release: 2018
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
TOP 2: Generation War
Original Title: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Release: 2013
Berlin, summer of 1941, during the World War II. Five young Germans promise to meet again as soon the war ends… in Christmas: brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm will go to the Russian front. Charlotte will serve as a nurse in a campaign hospital. Greta dreams of becoming a singer. Viktor, her Jewish boyfriend, works as a tailor with her father. But soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.
TOP 1: Band of Brothers
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics
Release: 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.