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20 best shows like War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

List of the best shows and series like War for the Planet of the Apes (2017): The Stand, Last Resort, The Last Ship, Falling Skies, The Passage, Extinct, Z Nation, 3%, Raised by Wolves, Halo: Nightfall.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA

In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

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: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

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: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration00:43

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration03:35

A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The colony of revived humans encounter struggles with the aliens who extinguished humankind centuries before, while trying to understand and get along with the mysterious aliens who revived them.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

    Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryBrazil
    Duration02:14

    In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, family, detective, military
    Duration00:30

    Taking place between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians, Halo: Nightfall follows the origin story of legendary manhunter Jameson Locke (Mike Colter) and his team as they are caught in a horrific terrorist attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:00

    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: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:42

    The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUSA

    A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:44

    Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Follow 16-year-old Henrietta, aka Henry, who discovers she has the ability to teleport. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school’s Golden Boy, who tries to rape her.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration09:00

    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
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryDenmark, USA
    Duration02:13

    After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:40

    Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:46

    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: 7.4
    Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    Relive a heroic fight for survival during the Iraq War, when the 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood was ferociously ambushed on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City, Baghdad — a day that came to be known in military annals as “Black Sunday.”

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUSA

    A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA

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

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Dominion is an epic supernatural drama set in the near future. Specifically, 25 years after "The Extinction War," when an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, waged war against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, chose to side with humanity. Rising out of the ashes of this long battle are newly fortified cities which protect human survivors. At the center of the series is the city of Vega, a glistening empire that has formed from the ruins of what was once Las Vegas.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

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

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:46

    When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Defiance is an American science fiction television show that takes place in the future on a radically transformed Earth containing new species arriving from space. In the show, Joshua Nolan works as the lawman for the town of Defiance, a community where humans and intelligent extraterrestrial species coexist. The show follows Nolan, his adopted alien daughter Irisa, and the town's new mayor Amanda Rosewater.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Set amidst today’s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the world was full of superheroes who aren't actually heroic at all? What if all that power was just one more excuse for mischief, mayhem, murder, and endorsement deals?

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration00:43

    Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:41

    In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada

    R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryPoland

    After a bombing attack at the Poland–Ukraine border which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow tries to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:00

    A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of highly specialized scientists is assembled to find a cure and stop the spread of the alien pathogen, code-named Andromeda.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:44

    Person of Interest follows former CIA paramilitary operative, John Reese, who is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration04:00

    A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:45

    The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.




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