Best TV shows — biographie on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2022 · Dennis Lehane · 1 season

Sentenced to ten years behind bars, Jimmy Keene is presented with a once-in-a-lifetime bargain: obtain a confession from suspected murderer Larry Hall and earn his freedom. The task becomes a tense, personal crusade that forces him into psychological games, dangerous risks, and a race to uncover the truth before it destroys him.

With Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Ray Liotta, Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi, Laney Stiebing and Robert Wisdom

2019 · Ava DuVernay · 1 season

Accused of a violent assault in Central Park, five teenagers from Harlem are thrust into a harrowing ordeal as police scrutiny, sensational headlines, and community backlash threaten to tear apart their lives, their families, and the fragile bonds that hold them together while they fight to prove their innocence.

With Jharrel Jerome, Ethan Herisse, Marquis Rodriguez, Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Marsha Stephanie Blake and Michael Kenneth Williams

2019 · Ava DuVernay · 1 season

Five teenagers from Harlem are plunged into a harrowing ordeal after being wrongly accused of a brutal assault in Central Park, forcing them to battle public outrage and fight to prove their innocence.

With Jharrel Jerome, Ethan Herisse, Marquis Rodriguez, Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Marsha Stephanie Blake and Michael Kenneth Williams

2022 · Elizabeth Meriwether · 1 season

A dramatized portrait of Elizabeth Holmes, the magnetic Stanford dropout who sold herself as a visionary and built a billion-dollar blood-testing startup that captivated investors and the media. Her rise to fame unravels when scrutiny reveals the company's machines failed to deliver on their promises, putting patient care at risk and bringing the high-flying venture crashing down.

With Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Michel Gill, Elizabeth Marvel, William H. Macy, Sam Waterston and Bill Irwin

2023 · Akiva Goldsman · 1 season

when a young man is detained for a brutal offense, an unlikely sleuth must navigate lies, loyalties and hidden motives to uncover the truth.

With Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried, Sasha Lane, Will Chase, Lior Raz, Emmy Rossum and Thomas Sadoski

2022 · Michael Tolkin · 1 season

Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy delivers a candid, never-before-shared chronicle of the making of the 1972 landmark film The Godfather, revealing behind-the-scenes drama, creative clashes and personal recollections from a production directed by Francis Ford Coppola and co-adapted with Mario Puzo.

With Miles Teller, Matthew Goode, Dan Fogler, Burn Gorman, Colin Hanks, Giovanni Ribisi and Juno Temple

2022 · David Simon, George Pelecanos · 1 season

A stark chronicle of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force — how it rose to power and then imploded, uncovering deep-seated corruption and a broader moral collapse in a city where harsh drug enforcement and mass arrest tactics were prioritized above genuine policing and public safety.

With Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles, McKinley Belcher III, Rob Brown and David Corenswet

2022 · Lee Eisenberg, Drew Crevello · 1 season

Rooted in true events and the turbulent romance at its core, this series follows a tiny shared-office experiment that, in under ten years, exploded into a global company valued at $47 billion—only to see $40 billion wiped from that valuation in less than a year. How did an astronomical rise become such a dramatic collapse?

With Jared Leto, Anne Hathaway, Kyle Marvin, Theo Stockman, Cricket Brown, Robert Emmet Lunney and Andrew Burnap

2019 · Alena Smith · 3 seasons

A headstrong Emily Dickinson defies convention, pouring her restless energy into bold, private poems as she clashes with family and society. This coming-of-age series follows her fierce ambition and the risks she takes—romantic, social, and artistic—as she relentlessly pursues one audacious goal: to become the world's greatest poet.

With Hailee Steinfeld, Toby Huss, Adrian Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, Ella Hunt, Jane Krakowski and Chinaza Uche

2022 · Antonio Campos · 1 season

A probing portrait of Michael Peterson and the tangled bonds of his expansive North Carolina family, tracing the contested and unsettling circumstances surrounding the death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.

With Juliette Binoche, Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Dane DeHaan, Olivia DeJonge and Patrick Schwarzenegger

2015 · 1 season

An intimate portrait of Frank Sinatra told primarily in his own words, drawn from hours of archival interviews and complemented by testimony from those closest to him. The series melds his music and the imagery of his life, featuring seldom-seen footage from the celebrated 1971 "Retirement Concert" in Los Angeles. The filmmaker structures the narrative around the songs Sinatra selected for that performance, reading them as a personal soundtrack that traces the milestones, regrets and reinventions of his career.

With Frank Sinatra, Gina Gershon, Christine Baranski and Vincent D'Onofrio

2014 · 1 season

Spanning seven episodes and fourteen hours, this documentary weaves together the intertwined personal and political lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, tracing their influence on American public life across more than a century — from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962. Presented as a single, sweeping narrative for a flagship documentary audience, the series examines their ambitions, relationships, reforms and the legacy that made their family one of the most consequential in U.S. history.

With Peter Coyote, David McCullough, Meryl Streep, Edward Herrmann, Paul Giamatti, Theodore Roosevelt and Doris Kearns Goodwin

2022 · Carlton Cuse, John Ridley · 1 season

As floodwaters surged, the power cut out and the heat became unbearable, leaving exhausted caregivers in a New Orleans hospital to confront impossible, heart-rending choices.

With Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Cornelius Smith, Jr., Robert Pine, Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery and Michael Gaston

2021 · Georgia Pritchett · 1 season

When Marty turns to Dr. Ike to learn how to set firmer boundaries, he expects straightforward guidance; over the next thirty years, their patient-therapist relationship morphs into something far more complicated as care, control and dependence blur, and the very lines meant to protect him begin to unravel.

With Paul Rudd, Will Ferrell, Kathryn Hahn, Casey Wilson, Cornell Womack, Robin Bartlett and Richard Aaron Anderson

2020 · 1 season

Tracing the extraordinary true-life ascent of Madam C.J. Walker, this limited series follows her transformation from poverty to pioneering entrepreneur who built a nationwide beauty empire and became the first Black woman in the United States to amass significant wealth through her own business.

With Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Garrett Morris, Kevin Carroll, J. Alphonse Nicholson and Blair Underwood

1979 · Richard Carpenter · 1 season

Notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is abruptly thrust into the role of the unwilling leader of a motley crew of outlaws and launches into a string of increasingly preposterous escapades, using guile, daring and improvisation to stay one step ahead of the ruthlessly corrupt lawman Jonathan Wilde.

With Richard O'Sullivan, Michael Deeks, Christopher Benjamin, David Daker, Alfie Bass, Mary Crosby and Don Henderson

2020 · Moisés Zamora · 1 season

Selena, a young Mexican-American Tejano singer, comes into her own and pursues her dreams as she and her family confront difficult choices to protect their love and the music that holds them together.

With Christian Serratos, Gabriel Chavarria, Ricardo Chavira, Noemi Gonzalez, Seidy López, Lindsey Pearlman and Madison Taylor Baez

1988 · 38 seasons

An acclaimed historical series vividly recreates pivotal events and personal stories from the past, revealing the people and forces that continue to shape our world today.

With David Ogden Stiers, Linda Hunt, David McCullough, Michael Murphy, Liev Schreiber, Joe Morton and Julian Bond

2021 · Peter Jackson · 1 season

Spanning three episodes and assembled from over 60 hours of previously unseen footage, this documentary reveals the warmth, close camaraderie and creative brilliance that shaped the lasting legacy of music’s most celebrated foursome. For the first time in its entirety, it also presents The Beatles' final performance on London's Savile Row.

With John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, George Martin and Michael Lindsay-Hogg

2018 · Vicky Matthews, Matthew Hinchcliffe, Simon Deeley · 1 season

Amid ruthless power struggles, betrayals and clandestine plots, Hitler’s inner circle of Nazi leaders consolidates control of Germany and steers the nation toward catastrophic consequences.

With Alisdair Simpson, Jonathon Michaels, Steve Munroe, Conan Sweeny, Zivile Matikiene, Vic Waghorn and Chris Wilson