Best War & Political TV Shows, Ranked

War dramas and political series ranked by reception, from limited series to multi-season institutions.

The 21 highest-rated war & politics series right now

1
Lioness (2023)
SeriScore 164243.8Audience 8.1/10 Paramount+
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.
2
Vikings (2013)
SeriScore 62104.2Audience 8.1/10 [object Object]
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.
3
Band of Brothers (2001)
SeriScore 46896.6Audience 8.6/10 HBO Max
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.
4
Shōgun (2024)
SeriScore 42863.8Audience 8.4/10 Hulu
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.
5
For All Mankind (2019)
SeriScore 41655.8Audience 7.7/10 Apple TV+
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
6
Homeland (2011)
SeriScore 25823.6Audience 7.6/10 Paramount+
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.
7
Masters of the Air (2024)
SeriScore 23275.4Audience 7.8/10 Apple TV+
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
8
SEAL Team (2017)
SeriScore 22984.7Audience 8.0/10 Paramount+
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.
9
The Last Kingdom (2015)
SeriScore 18478.2Audience 8.3/10 Netflix
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.
10
The Pacific (2010)
SeriScore 18010.6Audience 7.8/10 HBO Max
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.
11
Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
SeriScore 11387.3Audience 7.6/10 Netflix
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.
12
Designated Survivor (2016)
SeriScore 11034.6Audience 7.2/10 Netflix
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.
13
Veep (2012)
SeriScore 8228.7Audience 7.5/10 HBO Max
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
14
Shooter (2016)
SeriScore 5762.2Audience 7.2/10 Netflix
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.
15
M*A*S*H (1972)
SeriScore 5553.2Audience 7.9/10 Hulu
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.
16
Generation Kill (2008)
SeriScore 4881.0Audience 7.9/10 HBO Max
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.
17
SIX (2017)
SeriScore 4192.6Audience 7.3/10 Hulu
Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.
18
Bodyguard (2018)
SeriScore 1963.2Audience 7.8/10 Netflix
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
19
Violet Evergarden (2018)
Audience 8.5/10
The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.
20
Vinland Saga (2019)
Audience 8.5/10
For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.
21
Scarlet Heart: Ryeo (2016)
Audience 8.5/10
A story of a 25-year-old Go Hajin who is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She then wakes up in the body of Lady Hae Soo and finds herself amongst the ruling princes of the Wang Family.