Black Earth Rising

Series Similar to Black Earth Rising

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

1. Inside Man

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   A vicar's life begins to intertwine with that of a prisoner on death row and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar.

2. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended90% match

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

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

3. Nobel

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, War · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / War profile, hidden gem.

   24 hours after returning to his home in Oslo following a traumatic tour of duty in Afghanistan, Erling Riser is given orders to kill an Afghan man on the street. When he discovers the orders were not sent by the Head of Intelligence he must find out who is sending them and why he is being used as a hitman. His wife no longer trusts him, and he cannot trust anyone himself, Erling finds himself in the middle, as both a target and hitman, of a complex killing game. Nobel places a dramatic conspiracy plot in the middle of Norway's war in Afghanistan and at the centre of the world's most famous humanitarian prize. Politics and social commentary are combined in this gripping thriller.

4. Emergence

   2019 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Emergence centers around a police chief who takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child's identity is at the center of it all.

5. Romper Stomper

   2018 · Drama, Thriller · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   A high stakes political drama that follows a new generation of far right activists, their Anti-Fascist counterparts, and its impact on today's multicultural society.

6. Gallipoli

   2015 · Drama, War · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar War profile, hidden gem.

   As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.

7. The Crimson Field

   2014 · Drama, War · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar War profile, hidden gem.

   This series follows a team of doctors, nurses, and female volunteers working in a front-line tented field hospital during the First World War. It's a daily battle to keep the soldiers well enough to fight. Low staff numbers cause the hospital to become more and more dependent upon its female volunteers, though some people see these women as more of a threat than anything else.

8. The Code

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia's outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, The Code tells the story of two very different brothers who are handed information those in the highest political echelons will kill to keep secret.

9. Kampen om tungtvannet

   2015 · Drama, Thriller, War · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / War profile.

   The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.

10. Roadkill

    2020 · Drama, Thriller · ended86% match

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

    Roadkill is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter Laurence. Peter's public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. As the personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. However, events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?