TV series about the military

TV series about the military
List of the best series of war veterans selected by visitors to our site: Generation War, The Pacific, Generation Kill, Barbarians, The Last Ship, The Liberator, American Odyssey, Last Resort, SEAL Team, The Brave.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.5
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryGermany
Duration02:11
PlotWar, Death
PlacePrison

Berlin, summer of 1941, during the World War II. Five young Germans promise to meet again as soon the war ends… in Christmas: brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm will go to the Russian front. Charlotte will serve as a nurse in a campaign hospital. Greta dreams of becoming a singer. Viktor, her Jewish boyfriend, works as a tailor with her father. But soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration09:00
CharactersMilitary, Friends, Soldier
PlotWar, Survival, Death, Self-sacrifice
PlaceJapan
StyleBased on real events

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.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration07:00
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar, Survival
StyleAction, Based on real events

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.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, history
CountryGermany
CharactersMilitary, Strong women, Heroes, Soldier, Warriors
PlotWar, betrayal, Power, Uprising, Sword Battles
PlaceForest, Roman Empire, Germany
TimeMiddle Ages
StyleBased on real events

Three people's fates are interwoven in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration00:43
CharactersMilitary, Heroes, Scientists
PlotSurvival, Apocalypse, Viruses
PlaceShips
TimePost-apocalypse
StyleAction, Fascinating

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA
CharactersMilitary, Indians, Soldier
PlotSecond world war, Weapons
StyleBased on real events

A diverse, dedicated, rough-and-tumble squad of soldiers spearheads the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration03:13
CharactersMilitary
PlaceUSA
StyleAction, Twisted plot, Fascinating

In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43
CharactersMilitary, Heroes, Soldier
PlotSurvival
PlaceSubmarines
StyleAction, Fascinating

Last Resort is an American military drama television series. When the crew of the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Colorado, pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA
CharactersSpecial Forces, Psychologists, Military, Heroes, Soldier
PlotWar, Investigation, Martial Arts, Adventures, Weapons
StyleSpectacular, Action, Twisted plot, Fascinating

The lives of the elite Navy Seals as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:18
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar
StyleSpectacular, Action, Fascinating

The complex world of our bravest military heroes who make personal sacrifices while executing the most challenging and dangerous missions behind enemy lines.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:46
CharactersHackers, Military, Heroes, Terrorists, Soldier
PlaceEngland
StyleSpectacular

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration00:43
CharactersRobots, Military, Heroes
PlotRevenge, Survival, Apocalypse
PlaceSpace
TimeFuture
StyleSpectacular

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA
CharactersNurses, Military, Artists
PlotWar, Medicine
StyleTouching

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
Duration01:00
CharactersDoctors, Military, Scientists, Soldier
PlotInvestigation, Death, Viruses
StyleBy books, Based on real events

Heroic U.S. Army scientist Dr. Nancy Jaax, working with a secret military specialized team, puts her life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA
CharactersMilitary, Lawyers
StyleFascinating

The military's brightest minds tackle the country's toughest legal challenges at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, where every attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator, and a Marine. Working side-by-side, they serve their country with integrity while often putting aside ideals for the sake of the truth.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration00:43
CharactersSpy, Military, Heroes, Partners, Losers
PlotAdventures, Missing people, Intrigue, Uprising
StyleSpectacular, Action, Fascinating

Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme.The show was created by Donald P. Bellisario. The first three seasons star Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, and Jean Bruce Scott. After the original series was cancelled, a fourth season, with an entirely new cast and on a much smaller budget, was filmed in Canada for the USA Network.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genreaction, drama, crime, history
CountryUSA
Duration00:58
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotMartial Arts
PlaceUSA
Time19th century
StyleSpectacular, For men, Atmospheric, Fascinating

A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration01:51
CharactersRobots, Military, Heroes
PlotWar, Survival, Adventures
TimeFuture
StyleSpectacular

Fifty years in the future, an oppressive authoritarian force threatens to conquer the world. A daring team is recruited to pilot a new form of weaponized neuroscience that powers devastating mecha, but they must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the world.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genredrama, adventure, detective, military, history
CountryRussia, Soviet Union
Duration13:48
CharactersScouts, Spy
PlotWar
StylePopular

A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies.

Markimdb: 9.4
Genreaction, drama, documentary, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration10:00
CharactersMilitary, Soldier, Warriors
PlotWar, Survival, Second world war, Self-sacrifice
StylePopular, Short, Action, Fascinating, Patriotic

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.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryUSA
CharactersMilitary, Soldier, Partners
PlotLife, Everyday life
PlaceUSA, Military bases

A dark comedy following a multicultural mix of men and women deployed as Army medics to a forward operating base in Afghanistan nicknamed “The Orphanage.” Together, they endure a dangerous and Kafkaesque world that leads to self-destructive appetites, outrageous behavior, intense camaraderie and occasionally, a profound sense of purpose.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:59
CharactersMaids
PlotLove, War, Treason, Love triangle
PlaceEngland
StyleShort, Romantic, By books

The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, military, history
CountryRussia
Duration07:30

The action of the series takes place from 1938 to 1948 years, and covers key events of the era.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, action, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar
PlaceMilitary bases
StyleDystopian

Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools. Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military
CountrySpain
CharactersNurses
PlotWar
PlaceHospitals
StyleAction, Fascinating, Makes me think

Oblivious to the strife that awaits them, a group of young nurses from Spain's upper class head to war-torn Marocco in 1921 to help where help is needed. Many lessons in love and life are learned before they overcome deepest conflicts, grow as human beings and find out what they really want from life and whom they truly love.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, detective, military, history
CountryRussia
Duration02:16
PlotLove, War
PlaceRussia

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:05
CharactersSoldier
PlotLove, War, Death
PlaceRussia

A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
CharactersNurses, Military, Surgeons, Friends
PlotLove triangle
StyleSpectacular, Action

In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantasy, drama, military, history
CountryDenmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany
PlotLove triangle

When Germany and Prussia declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.

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Genremilitary
CountryRussia

Nikolay Morozov has been both a revolutionary and a terrorist in his long life. Sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour, he spent 30 years in a tsarist prison. His hair had long turned grey by the time the Second World War broke out, but when he realised his country needed him he volunteered for the army. Nikolay was 87 at the time.





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