Show Me a Hero

Series Similar to Show Me a Hero

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

1. Death by Lightning

   2025 · Drama, History · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar History profile.

   Death by Lightning is a drama series that brings to life the epic and stranger-than-fiction true story of James Garfield, reluctant 20th president of the United States, and his greatest admirer Charles Guiteau — the man who would come to kill him.

2. Chernobyl

   2019 · Drama, History · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.9), also on HBO.

   Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The miniseries focuses on the heartbreaking scope of the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened and telling the shocking, remarkable stories of the heroes who fought and fell.

3. We Own This City

   2022 · Drama, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, also on HBO.

   We Own This City chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work. 

4. The Making of The Mob

   2015 · Drama, Crime, History · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / History profile.

   The Making of The Mob is a special event miniseries chronicling the historical roots of the original Five Families that led to the formation of the modern American Mafia.

5. This England

   2022 · Drama, History · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar History profile, hidden gem.

   This England will tell the tale of some of the most devastating events to ever befall the United Kingdom, and of a Prime Minister leading in these unprecedented times. The drama will trace the impact on Britain from this once in a generation pandemic, and the response of scientists, nurses, and doctors as they worked tirelessly and heroically to contain and overcome the virus. It is based on the first-hand testimony of people from all walks of life; from Number 10 Downing Street, the Department of Health, The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and from hospitals and care homes across the country.

6. John Adams

   2008 · Drama, History · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8), also on HBO.

   This seven-part epic miniseries event explores American history through one of its greatest founding fathers, a fiercely independent spirit whose unwavering vision steered America through a tumultuous period.

7. Victoria

   2016 · Drama, History · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Victoria comes to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne's public image and become ‘grandmother of Europe'. The first series of Victoria, will tell the story of the first years of the reign, beginning with the moment of the Queen's accession in 1837, following her first faltering steps from capricious, hormonal teenager with a weak grasp on her duties and responsibilities to her marriage to Albert. The show is a saga of interlocking circles – the circuits of power in Buckingham Palace and Westminster, the intermarrying royal houses of Europe and the scandals of the below-stairs palace staff. At the centre stands the new Queen – a spirited, passionate woman who must, somehow, become an enduring icon of stability and strength.

8. Dark Angel

   2016 · Drama, Crime, History · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / History profile.

   The two-part drama, Dark Angel, from Line of Duty makers World Productions, is based on the extraordinary true story of the Victorian poisoner Mary Ann Cotton.Travelling around the North-east, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.

9. Peaky Blinders

   2013 · Drama, Crime, History · returning92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / History profile, highly rated (8.5).

   An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham.

10. The Village

    2013 · Drama, History · ended91% match

    Recommended for similar History profile, hidden gem.

    The story of 20th Century England is played out through a family in a Derbyshire village.