The Best TV Shows on Histoire TV

Every Histoire TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of September 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of Histoire TV’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. With its programming history stretching from 2005 to 2026, Histoire TV offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Highlighting Histoire TV’s quality programming, Rendez-vous avec François Mitterrand and Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil stand out, premiering in 2005 and 2007.

  • Living with Hitler
    Living with Hitler (2021)8.7

    The Nazi era from 1993 to 1945 is illustrated through archived material, with insights and anecdotes provided by world-leading experts and commentators.

  • Knut: The Viking Emperor
    Knut: The Viking Emperor (2026)8.7

  • Murder Maps
    Murder Maps (2015)8.2

    This drama-documentary series takes us back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in London, England's history. Nicholas Day guides us into the world of the killer as we see how police ingenuity and early forensics helped bring them to justice.

  • Ancient Superstructures
    Ancient Superstructures (2020)8.0

    "Ancient Superstructures“ reveals the secrets behind the world’s most famous monuments. Some of the ancient marvels which are among the most studied and scrutinized monuments in the world still remain shrouded in mystery. What if the answers were right in front of us… but invisible to the human eye? This ground-breaking series takes a unique approach in delving into engineering mysteries behind the world’s most famous ancient structures, by observing them from different perspectives of scale. From satellite imagery and aerial views right down to macro and microscopic levels, each perspective reveals data that helps shed new light on historical and construction enigmas that have baffled historians for years.

  • Railway Murders
    Railway Murders (2021)8.0

    Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British railway.

  • Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin
    Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin (2025)8.0

    Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin will forensically examine events that started in August 2000 after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of Russian submariners at the bottom of the Barents Sea.”

  • The Pacific War in Color
    The Pacific War in Color (2018)7.4

    Witness iconic assaults, intense battles, and intimate moments of the Pacific War, in color.

  • War Factories
    War Factories (2019)7.3

    The untold secret story of war production that shaped the Second World War.

  • Wartime Crime
    Wartime Crime (2017)7.0

    While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime.

  • Nefertiti - The Lonely Queen
    Nefertiti - The Lonely Queen (2020)6.0

    A documentary that explores the dim world of illicit trade in antiquities, as well as the long and hard struggle for the repatriation of all stolen treasures.

  • 100 Days to Victory
    100 Days to Victory (2018)5.3

    The extraordinary story of how the Allies turned the tide in the final months of 1918 to win the First World War.

  • The Real Mad Men of Advertising
    The Real Mad Men of Advertising (2017)5.2

    Follow the evolution of advertising from the 1950s through the 1980s, via interviews with the industry's top ad executives, and through classic ads and commercials.

  • America's Hidden Stories
    America's Hidden Stories (2019)4.0

    Modern historians, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and newly discovered evidence, rewrite the nation's most iconic stories.

  • Rendez-vous avec François Mitterrand
    Rendez-vous avec François Mitterrand (2005)N/A

  • Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil
    Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil (2007)N/A

    Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke have found at the NARA (National Archives in Washington DC) almost four hours of footage, mostly in colour, filmed by Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun between 1938 and 1944. It's an unbeleivable eyesight on Hitler's private life from the happy life in the "Eagle's nest" till his suicide in his bunker.

  • Jean Cocteau, les constellations du prince
    Jean Cocteau, les constellations du prince (2018)N/A

  • Jungle War
    Jungle War (2019)N/A

    Jungle Warfare in the 20th century, from WW2, to Malaya and Indonesia, to Vietnam and Cuba.

  • Vie et mort des empires
    Vie et mort des empires (2019)N/A

  • Fiasco
    Fiasco (2021)N/A

    Amidst the backdrop of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Jimmy Carter's failure to free American hostages sets the stage for Reagan's own hostage crisis.

  • Hitler's Countdown to War
    Hitler's Countdown to War (2021)N/A