Historical

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, told through a fractured timeline.

Two boys at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida discover horrors the adults try to keep hidden.

The commandant of Auschwitz and his family live an idyllic life next to the concentration camp.

Members of the Osage Nation are murdered after oil is discovered on their land in 1920s Oklahoma.

The ghost of Abraham Lincoln's son exists in a cemetery purgatory alongside other spirits.

Two interlocking stories about the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago and a woman searching for her estranged daughter in 2015 Paris.

FX's lavish adaptation of James Clavell's novel is a masterpiece of historical drama, following an English navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan as warring lords plot to seize supreme power.

Three African-American women mathematicians play a vital role at NASA during the early space programme.

The story of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the days following JFK's assassination.

A woman makes a deal with the darkness to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

A gangster family in post-WWI Birmingham rises through the ranks of the criminal underworld.

Four generations of a Korean immigrant family navigate war, displacement, love, and loss across Korea and Japan.

A war orphan from the south of the Nikara Empire discovers she possesses shamanic powers.

The story of how Purdue Pharma created the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin.

Percival Everett reimagines Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man whose intelligence, dignity, and interiority the original novel could never fully see.

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe.

On an isolated island, a painter develops a passionate relationship with the woman she is commissioned to paint.

The reign of Queen Elizabeth II, from her early days on the throne to the modern era.

Abraham Verghese's sweeping multigenerational epic follows a Kerala family haunted by a mysterious curse of drowning, spanning from 1900 to 1977 across three generations of love, medicine, and sacrifice.

A communist spy in the South Vietnamese army navigates the fall of Saigon and exile in America.

The story of Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign to secure voting rights through an epic march from Selma to Montgomery.

A Puritan family in 1630s New England encounters evil forces in the woods beyond their farm.

In medieval Korea, a zombie plague threatens a kingdom already on the brink of political collapse.

The story of King George VI's struggle with a stammer and his friendship with speech therapist Lionel Logue.

Journalists at The Washington Post race to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets.

A former enslaved woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead daughter in post-Civil War Ohio.

An English butler reflects on his life of service as he takes a road trip through the countryside.

In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne is the pawn between two cousins vying for court influence.

A free Black man is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the antebellum South.

The story of seven defendants charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A young boy navigates the tumultuous late 1960s in Belfast during the Troubles.