American Primeval

Series Similar to American Primeval

If you enjoyed American Primeval, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. 1923

   2022 · Drama, Western · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.1).

   1923 focuses on the Dutton family's next two generations as they struggle to survive historic drought, lawlessness and prohibition, and an epidemic of cattle theft; all battled beneath the cloud of Montana's great depression, which preceded the nation by almost a decade.

2. Yellowstone

   2018 · Drama, Western · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders — land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny — where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned by fracking wells and unsolved murders are not news: they are a consequence of living in the new frontier. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both.

3. 1883

   2021 · Drama, Adventure, Western · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.8).

   1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.

4. The English

   2022 · Drama, Western · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile.

   Set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890, The English follows Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp, an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive.

5. Joe Pickett

   2021 · Drama, Western · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile.

   Joe Pickett follows a game warden and his family as they navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.

6. Godless

   2017 · Drama, Western · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8), also on Netflix.

   A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who's found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

7. Longmire

   2012 · Drama, Thriller, Western · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.3), also on Netflix.

   Longmire, a contemporary crime thriller set in Big Sky country, is based on the Walt Longmire Mystery novels by best-selling author Craig Johnson. It focuses on a Wyoming sheriff who's rebuilding his life and career following the death of his wife.

8. How the West Was Won

   1977 · Drama, Western · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Family Macahan's is the story of the white man's conquest of the American West, which we follow through family Macahan valiant struggle for survival. It is the story of mountain men who went west to explore the world beyond the next river bend, the fur trappers who nearly extinct buffalo herds, the gold graves searching for El Dorado, about peasants who became wealthy landowners and the simple people who were on the run. There is also a story about the American Indians. Brave and fearless, but hopelessly outnumbered, these primitive people were the ultimate losers in the battle for land in the west.

9. The Son

   2017 · Drama, Action, Western · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Western profile.

   The Son, from writers/producers Philipp Meyer, Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy and producer Michael Connolly, is a multi-generational epic telling of the story of America's birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire.

10. Hell on Wheels

    2011 · Drama, Action, Western · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Action / Western profile, highly rated (8.2).

    Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who lived, worked and died in the mobile encampment called "Hell on Wheels" that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. In particular, the story focuses on Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War.