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The Crown(2016-2023)

TV-MA
| Drama
4.1/5 (with 955 votes)

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Directed by Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin, Julian Jarrold - With Claire Foy, Matt Smith, John Lithgow, Vanessa Kirby, Eileen Atkins, Jeremy Northam, ...
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The Thick of It(2005-2012)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 79 votes)

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.

With Peter Capaldi, Chris Langham, Rebecca Front, Chris Addison, Joanna Scanlan, James Smith, ...

The New Statesman(1987-1992)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

With Rik Mayall, Marsha Fitzalan, Michael Troughton, Terence Alexander, Hugh Laurie, Paul O'Grady, ...

Question Time(1979-)

NR
| 1h per episode | News, Talk-Show
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

Yes Minister(1980-1982)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
4.1/5 (with 62 votes)

Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.

With Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott

G.B.H.(1991)

1h 21min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Robert Young - With Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters

Roadkill(2020)

56min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?

Directed by Michael Keillor - With Hugh Laurie, Helen McCrory, Sarah Greene, Pip Torrens, Patricia Hodge, Iain De Caestecker, ...

Party Animals(2007)

50min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.

With Andrew Buchan, Shelley Conn, Andrea Riseborough, Matt Smith, Patrick Baladi

The First Churchills(1969)

50min per episode | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722.

Directed by David Giles - With Susan Hampshire, John Neville, John Standing, Robert Robinson, James Villiers, John Westbrook, ...

The Politician's Husband(2013)

57min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

Directed by Simon Cellan Jones

Spitting Image(1984-)

30min per episode | Comedy

Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.

Ballot Monkeys(2015)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through the chaos of the election campaign.

With Ben Miller
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House of Cards(1990)

55min per episode | War & Politics, Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 64 votes)

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.

Directed by Paul Seed - With Ian Richardson, Susannah Harker, David Lyon, Diane Fletcher, James Villiers, Colin Jeavons, ...

To Play the King(1993)

50min per episode | Drama, Comedy, War & Politics
4.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

Directed by Paul Seed - With Ian Richardson, Michael Kitchen, Kitty Aldridge, Diane Fletcher

Apocalypse: World War I(2014)

TV-14
| 52min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 129 votes)

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

Directed by Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Mosley(1998)

50min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sir Oswald Mosley was a man who should have ranked with the heroes of the century... Instead his personal life and public career ended in disgrace and Mosley is now remembered as the leader of a dictatorial populist movement in the decade before WWII.

Directed by John Alexander - With Jonathan Cake

Newscast(2020-)

TV-14
| 29min per episode | News, Talk-Show
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In a televised version of the popular podcast, Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, and guests chat about the stories behind the news.

A Very British Coup(1988)

NR
| 55min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.

The World Wars(2014)

1h 30min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.

World War II: When Lions Roared(1994)

1h 37min per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A 1994 war television miniseries which portrays Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Italy, and concluding with the Tehran Conference.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Ed Begley, Jr.

The Politician's Wife(1995)

3h 5min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Prime Minister’s Questions(2023-)

NR
| News, Talk-Show

Questions to the Prime Minister. Held weekly since 1961, Prime Minister's Questions, also referred to as PMQs, gives Members of the British Parliament a chance to question the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. PMQs takes place at midday every Wednesday at the Palace of Westminster when the House of Commons is sitting.

Churchill(2003)

1h per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Winston Churchill is renowned as the legendary war leader, inspiring Britain in its finest hour. This series looks at the man behind the legend, bringing you closer to the real Churchill through the eyes of those closest to him.

The Labour Files(2022-)

3h 54min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An investigation based on the largest leak of documents in British political history. The Labour Files examines thousands of internal documents, emails and social media messages to reveal how senior officials in one of the two parties of government in the UK ran a coup by stealth against the elected leader of the party.

Haunted Towns(2017-2019)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Reality-TV
4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Tennessee Wraith Chasers (TWC) expand their paranormal mission in "Haunted Towns" as they investigate local hauntings across America.

Inside the Commons(2015)

1h per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary series which shows the work done by Members of Parliament, both behind the scenes and in public proceedings in the House of Commons.