TV series about the Great Depression

TV series about the Great Depression
List of the best TV series about the Great Depression, selected by visitors to our site: Bonnie & Clyde, Perry Mason, Clarice, The Woods, Billions, Debris, The Pale Horse, Vincenzo, Sherlock, Resident Alien.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, crime, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration04:00

Miniseries based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecrime, detective
CountryUSA

Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryPoland, USA

Paul Copeland is looking to solve the murder of his sister back in 1994.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

    A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea

    Vincenzo Cassano is an Italian lawyer and Mafia consigliere who moves back to Korea due to a conflict within his organization. He ends up crossing paths with a sharp-tongued lawyer named Cha-young, and the two join forces in using villainous methods to take down villains who cannot be punished by the law.

    Markimdb: 9.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

      A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”

      Markimdb: 9.1
      Genredocumentary, biography, sport
      CountryUSA

      A 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100 interviews with famous figures and basketball’s biggest names.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySpain

      An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA, Colombia, Mexico
      Duration02:13

      The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySpain, Japan

      Ten scientists trapped in a mobile science laboratory at the South Pole realize that one among them is a killer.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      The story of Ben Clemens, who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question his black and white views of the world, challenging his ideology and his loyalties.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Following the death of her son in a hit and run, all Frances Cairnes wants is to hunt down and kill the man she believes is responsible. When she finally tracks him down, she tricks her way into his house and plots his murder from within.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      The parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th century America.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA

      A prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      The eccentric Oh Hyun Jae was a peerless criminal profiler until a bomb planted by a serial killer took the life of his young fiancée, causing him to become a recluse. When a serial killer long thought dead returns to terrorize the city, rising star of the police, Hwang Hwa Young, resolves to outwit the killer. To do so, she teams up with both Oh and the remarkable rookie cop Cha Soo Young, whose photographic memory may prove to be a powerful crime-fighting weapon.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain

      Zoe Walker leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza, where she quickly heads down a decadent and dangerous path.

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      Genredrama
      CountryRussia

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      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA

      A tight-knit group of teens unearths a long-buried secret, setting off a chain of illicit events that takes them on an adventure they'll never forget.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredocumentary, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      An exploration of the case of the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s, committing 50 sexual assaults and 10 murders, and true crime author Michelle McNamara's obsessive quest to find justice on behalf of his victims.

      Markimdb: 8.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      A psychopath’s ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

      Markimdb: 8.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:00

      An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecrime, detective
      CountryAustria, Germany

      Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Dogged investigator Allegra Dill returns to her border-town Texas home after her sister is murdered. What begins as a search for a killer turns into an all-consuming fight to bring her corrupt hometown to its knees.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, cartoon, anime
      CountryJapan

      Anos Voldigord was a tyrannical Demon King that eradicated humans, spirits, and even the gods, but became bored of eternal warfare and reincarnated with dreams of a peaceful world. However, what awaited him in reincarnation after 2000 years were descendants who became too weak after being accustomed to peace, and all sorts of magic that deteriorated to the extreme. Anos enters Demon King Academy that gathers and educates those who are viewed as the reincarnation of the Demon King, but the academy could not see through his true powers and ends up branding him as a misfit.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      The terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a flourishing Dallas neurosurgeon whose patients suddenly begin becoming permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians set out to stop him.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:33

      Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A psychiatrist moves with her family from California to her husband’s hometown in Mississippi only to uncover shameful secrets that irrevocably change the lives of everyone involved.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, a body washes ashore and is discovered by an irreverent National Marine Fisheries Service officer, Jackie Quinones, who is determined to help solve the murder even if the state cops want her nowhere near the case.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration05:59

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      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryBrazil

      An environmental police officer uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore when he finds a connection between the mysterious appearance of a dead river dolphin on a Rio de Janeiro beach and the death of his beloved wife.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryRussia

      After faking his own death, notorious gangster Volkov (Wolf) retires overseas with a new identity. When his parents die in a car accident 20 years later, he secretly returns to his hometown and learns that the nephew of a local mobster is responsible for his parents’ death. After killing the man, a battle between the old-newcomer and local crime bosses unfolds.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, USA

      Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, crime, detective, history
      CountryFrance

      Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.

      Markimdb: 8.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:50

      Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C. House of Cards is an adaptation of a previous BBC miniseries of the same name, which is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs.




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