The Best TV Shows on Histoire TV

Every Histoire TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Discover the best of Histoire TV with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for July 2026. With its programming history stretching from 2007 to 2026, Histoire TV offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. For top-tier entertainment, Histoire TV delivered Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil and The Dark Ages: An Age of Light in 2007 and 2012.

  • Face à face pour l'Élysée
    Face à face pour l'Élysée (2021)9.0

  • Ancient Superstructures
    Ancient Superstructures (2020)8.7

    "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.

  • 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.

  • The Dark Ages: An Age of Light
    The Dark Ages: An Age of Light (2012)8.0

    Christianity slowly emerged from being a persecuted minority to the state religion of the Roman Empire. This episode is a history of the ways believers grappled with a way to depict Jesus. Simple symbolic meaning developed into splendid art and churches.

  • Hitler's Empire: The Post War Plan
    Hitler's Empire: The Post War Plan (2017)8.0

    Author and historian Guy Walters investigates the Nazi post-war plan for a new world order: from how Hitler began constructing buildings on a truly colossal scale for his new world capital to how a new and expanded Germany rising out of the ashes of conquered Europe would have meant slavery for millions.

  • 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)7.6

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

  • War Factories
    War Factories (2019)7.5

    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.

  • Nazi War Machines: Secrets Uncovered
    Nazi War Machines: Secrets Uncovered (2019)6.5

    Historian James Holland goes inside the Nazi war machine, exploring the extraordinary weapons produced under the Third Reich, in a series that includes rare archive material

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Blitz: Britain on Fire
    The Blitz: Britain on Fire (2019)N/A

    Exploring the eight days in May 1941 when Britain, and Liverpool in particular, was subjected to one of the most intense bombardments of the entire war. Featuring eyewitness accounts and recollections from many whom have never spoken out before.

  • 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: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession
    Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)N/A

    After a terrible winter, 1942 starts badly for Stalin due to a ruthless Nazi campaign that leaves millions of Soviets captive and without food.