28 best biography tv-series of 2018

List of the 28 best TV shows of 2018 as selected by visitors to our site: FEUD, Genius, Manhunt: Unabomber, El Chapo, Alias Grace, Urban Myths, Wild Wild Country, Trust, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G., A Very English Scandal, Hymn of Death, Escape at Dannemora, The Putin Interviews, Trotsky, The Long Road Home, Z: The Beginning of Everything, Bose: Dead/Alive, Karenjit Kaur: The Untold Story of Sunny Leone, Luis Miguel: The Series, The New Edition Story
Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

Anthology series about famous geniuses with the first season charting how Albert Einstein unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe, and the second exploring the passionate nature and relentless creative drive of Pablo Picasso.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

Follow Jim Fitzgerald, the FBI agent who tracked down Ted Kaczynksi, aka the “Unabomber,” and brought him to justice through his expertise in profiling and linguistics.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:06

A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryCanada
Duration02:35

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, adventure, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:50

Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened...

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUSA

When a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:20

The trials and triumphs of one of America’s wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecrime, biography
CountryUSA

A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:16

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, music, biography, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:31

Based on a true story, the drama tells the tragic love story of Kim Woo Jin, a married stage drama writer, and Yun Shim Duk, Korea's first professional soprano, who meet while studying at Tokyo University in the 1920s. Yun Shim Duk's recording of "Death Song" became the first Korean pop song in 1926.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:11

The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:19

A revealing series of interviews between renowned filmmaker Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin in which the Russian President speaks candidly on the US Election, Trump, Syria, Snowden and more.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryRussia
Duration02:26

The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.

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: 7
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA

A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrethriller, detective, biography, history
CountryIndia

The man. The legend. The mystery. He fascinated us in life, and long after his "death". This is the story of India's biggest cover-up: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and the mystery of his alleged death.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryIndia

The life journey of Karenjit Kaur, showcasing her beginnings as an innocent, how she became India’s most googled celebrity, and everything which followed in between.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryMexico

The series dramatizes the life story of Mexican superstar singer Luis Miguel, who has captivated audiences in Latin America and beyond for decades.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA

Follow the story of R&B pioneers Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, Ronnie Devoe, Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill as they navigate fame from their native Boston to Hollywood and beyond.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrebiography
CountryUSA

The story of a teenager wrongfully charged with theft and jailed at Riker's Island prison for over 1,000 days.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, documentary, biography
CountryUSA

A fascinating docuseries chronicling Playboy magazine’s charismatic founder, Hugh Hefner, and his impact on global culture. Told from his unique perspective with never-before-seen footage from his private archive, discover the captivating story about the man behind the bunny.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genreaction, drama, crime, biography
CountryIndia

Shiv Prakash Shukla a 25 year age boy from Gorakhpur becomes the deadliest gangster of Uttar Pradesh in 1990s. He works for powerful politicians and involves in organised crimes. The state government felt danger from him and form STF to get him killed in a police encounter by tracking his mobile phone location.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom

Friends, associates and critics reveal the truly American story of Donald Trump, the brash businessman who defied the odds to become U.S. president.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom

When England won the World Cup in July 1966 Bobby Moore became a national hero. Swept up by the media frenzy and the nation’s adoration, he and wife Tina were the original ‘golden’ couple.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, documentary, crime, biography
CountryUSA

Documentary series that examines the Jonestown Massacre 40 years later.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary, biography, history, sport
CountryUSA

WWE Superstars past and present reveal their compelling stories about the most important moments in WWE history.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrebiography
CountryAustralia

The story of how Australia ended up with a larrikin in the Lodge, and what he brought to the top job.




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