Best TV shows — histoire on Prime Video : our Top 20

2019 · Craig Mazin · 1 season

A dramatized account of one of the gravest human-made disasters—the Chernobyl nuclear accident—and the aftermath that reshaped lives and nations. The series follows firefighters, plant workers, scientists and ordinary citizens whose courage, expertise and selflessness battled the invisible threat, exposed the truth and helped prevent a continent-wide catastrophe.

With Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis and Sam Troughton

2001 · 1 season

Compiled from interviews with surviving members of Easy Company and the letters and diaries they left behind, the series follows these soldiers from grueling paratrooper training in Georgia to the final days of World War II. As an elite airborne rifle company, they parachute into Normandy in the pre-dawn hours of D‑Day, endure the savage fighting of the Battle of the Bulge, and confront the harrowing realities of combat. Bearing witness to both remarkable courage and crippling fear, their shared experiences forge a lasting legend. Adapted from Stephen E. Ambrose’s celebrated book.

With Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Eion Bailey, Ron Livingston, Matthew Settle, Michael Cudlitz and Neal McDonough

2019 · Dallas Jenkins · 5 seasons

Seen through the memories and testimonies of those who crossed his path, the series reconstructs Jesus’s life as a mosaic of personal perspectives—disciples, skeptics, and ordinary witnesses—each revealing how his presence transformed them.

With Jonathan Roumie, Shahar Isaac, Elizabeth Tabish, Paras Patel, Noah James, George H. Xanthis and Giavani Cairo

2014 · Jack Amiel, Michael Begler · 2 seasons

In 1900 lower Manhattan, the doctors and staff of the Knickerbocker Hospital confront the limits of contemporary medicine. At the center is Dr. John Thackery, a brilliant but tormented chief surgeon who pioneers daring new procedures even as he battles a crippling drug addiction.

With Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson, Michael Angarano and Cara Seymour

2011 · Neil Jordan · 3 seasons

In 15th-century Italy, at the height of the Renaissance, Rodrigo Borgia claws his way to the papal throne and transforms the seat of Saint Peter into an instrument of personal power. Through bribery, seduction, betrayal and violence, he and his family manipulate politics, faith and fortune to amass influence and wealth, dragging the Church and the city into a web of ambition, scandal and bloodshed.

With Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris, Vernon Dobtcheff and Colm Feore

2023 · 1 season

Maomao, raised learning herbs and remedies in her father's humble apothecary, is abruptly sold into service at the imperial palace. Unwilling to be a quiet attendant among the nobility, she draws on her medical knowledge when the emperor’s heirs fall prey to a baffling illness and refuses to wait for orders. Her daring cures attract the notice of Jinshi, a charismatic court official who elevates her position, and she soon finds herself officially enlisted to diagnose and treat the court’s most puzzling ailments. Thrust into the center of power and intrigue, Maomao builds a reputation as a brilliant healer who solves medical mysteries no one else can.

With Aoi Yuki, Takeo Otsuka, Katsuyuki Konishi, Atsumi Tanezaki, Yui Ishikawa, Hina Kino and Yuhko Kaida

2012 · Heidi Thomas · 15 seasons

Set in the 1950s East End of London, this drama follows a determined group of midwives as they deliver babies and tend to families beset by poverty, illness and social hardship. Their daily rounds expose them to urgent medical crises, entrenched inequalities and personal dilemmas, while forging strong bonds with the community they serve. Adapted from the bestselling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, the series blends compassion, resilience and the gritty realities of postwar life.

With Vanessa Redgrave, Helen George, Jenny Agutter, Judy Parfitt, Stephen McGann, Cliff Parisi and Laura Main

2025 · Jon Erwin · 2 seasons

An outcast teenager, chosen by divine will, rises from obscurity to become Israel’s most celebrated king. As his star ascends, the once-formidable King Saul collapses under the weight of his own pride and failing rule. Guided by God’s command, the prophet Samuel anoints the unlikely youth, setting in motion a dramatic struggle between destiny and human frailty.

With Michael Iskander, Ali Suliman, Ayelet Zurer, Alexander Uloom, Stephen Lang and Martyn Ford

2022 · Seth MacFarlane, Brannon Braga, Bill Nye · 1 season

Fourteen-year-old prodigy Luke Ellis disappears and regains consciousness inside the Institute, a covert facility filled with other children who were brought there under similar circumstances and who possess uncanny abilities. In a nearby town, troubled ex-detective Tim Jamieson has moved hoping to leave his past behind, but the fragile peace is shattered as his life becomes entangled with Luke’s, pulling them both toward the Institute’s hidden, sinister truths.

With Bill Nye

2025 · Jim Swire, Peter Biddulph · 1 season

On December 21, 1988, Dr. Jim Swire loses his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 is destroyed over a small town; driven to uncover what happened, he launches an uncompromising, globe-spanning quest that crosses political fault lines and diplomatic barriers. His pursuit becomes all-consuming, threatening his mental equilibrium, tearing at his family ties and placing his very life in danger. As investigations and revelations constantly shift the ground beneath him, his faith in the justice system is ultimately shattered and his view of the world is irreversibly altered.

With Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack, Sam Troughton, Mark Bonnar, Andy Nyman, Ardalan Esmaili and Selwa Jghalef

2019 · Matthew Graham, Emma Frost · 2 seasons

A Spanish princess transplanted into Tudor England, Catherine of Aragon weaves through court intrigues, shifting alliances, and dynastic pressure as she fights to secure her claim to the throne.

With Charlotte Hope, Ruairí O'Connor, Laura Carmichael, Philip Cumbus, Stephanie Levi-John, Aaron Cobham and Richard Pepper

1985 · Fumio Kurokawa · 1 season

Sarah Crewe, the pampered daughter of a wealthy Englishman in India, arrives at an elite boarding school in London. When a string of sudden tragedies strips her of fortune and status, she is left destitute and forced to remain at the school, working as a maid where she once lived as a pupil.

With Sumi Shimamoto, Eiko Yamada, Taeko Nakanishi, Yukiko Nashiwa, Mie Suzuki, Chika Sakamoto and Maki Yaosaha

2014 · Brian Bird, Michael Landon Jr. · 13 seasons

In Saint Andrews, Brett Montgomery — a prosperous cosmetics entrepreneur who also practices as a physician at the town hospital — finds himself locked in a ruthless struggle for the family fortune when his sinister twin, Brad, resurfaces with designs on the Montgomery empire. As the two brothers battle through manipulation and betrayal, Brett leans on his fiancée, Cricket, a television reporter, while her twin sister, Ashley, serves as a nurse at the same hospital. Entangled by blood, ambition and divided loyalties, the four must confront buried secrets that could topple careers, relationships and the city’s fragile peace.

With Erin Krakow, Martin Cummins, Pascale Hutton, Jack Wagner, Loretta Walsh, Kavan Smith and Andrea Brooks

2021 · Barry Jenkins · 1 season

A young woman named Cora makes a daring bid for freedom from a Georgia plantation in the antebellum South, driven by whispers of the Underground Railroad. Instead of a figurative hope, she stumbles onto a literal subterranean rail network—manned by engineers and conductors and woven from hidden tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

With Thuso Mbedu, Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Pierre, Ryan James, Lucius Baston and Jeff Pope

2022 · Anya Reiss · 1 season

an orphaned teenager drawn into the deadly web of courtly power plays and sexual intrigue as she maneuvers to claim the English throne.

With Alicia von Rittberg, Romola Garai, Oliver Zetterström, Jessica Raine, Tom Cullen, Bella Ramsey and John Heffernan

2015 · Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin · 1 season

Tracing Zelda Sayre’s evolution from a vivacious Southern debutante into the quintessential face of the Jazz Age, this biographical series begins before she meets a then-unknown writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and follows the intoxicating courtship that binds them. It delves into their fiery, often destructive romance and a marriage that starts like a dream but unravels under the glare of fame, turning them into the era’s most dazzling—and tragic—celebrity couple.

With Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, David Strathairn, Kristine Nielsen, Jim True-Frost, Corey Cott and Christina Bennett Lind

2017 · 4 seasons

When a devastating blaze consumes Paris in 1897, three women are thrust into a whirlwind of deception, shattered loyalties and turbulent romances, each forced to navigate shifting alliances and painful truths to survive. Based on true events.

With Alicia von Rittberg, Mala Emde, Nina Gummich, Max Bretschneider, Ulrich Noethen, Nina Kunzendorf and Justus von Dohnányi

2015 · 1 season

Charting Cuba's turbulent journey from colonial subjugation and guerrilla uprisings to the shadowy diplomacy of the Cold War, the series delves into the leaders, battles, and international intrigues that reshaped the island.

With Ken Eaken

2008 · 26 seasons

Zak Bagans heads a small team with Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin on missions across the United States and around the world to examine sites rumored to be haunted. They delve into local history and eyewitness accounts, then conduct on-site investigations to document and confront the alleged spirits inhabiting those places.

With Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, Jay Wasley, Nick Groff, Lauren E. Murphy and John Edmonds

1978 · 1 season

With Jean-Claude Drouot, Nicole Garcia, Georges Marchal, Gérard Hérold, Pascale Rivault, France Dougnac and François Maistre