Shows like Frontier (2016)
Loved Frontier? Here are 24 shows with a similar feel, picked from what fans of Frontier watch next and from titles with the same mix of action & adventure and drama. Frontier was created by Peter Blackie.
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Peaky Blinders (2013)
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
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The Last Kingdom (2015)
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters,…
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The Day of the Jackal (2024)
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the…
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Black Sails (2014)
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his…
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Warrior (2019)
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under…
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Marco Polo (2014)
Set in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, this lavish drama series follows explorer Marco Polo's adventures in the 13th century.
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Hell on Wheels (2011)
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous,…
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Echo (2024)
Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.
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Magnificent Century: Kösem (2015)
Tells the legendary story between the Sultan of Kosem and Ahmed I.
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Knightfall (2017)
Go deep into the clandestine world of the legendary brotherhood of warrior monks known as The Knights Templar.
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Kung Fu (2021)
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses…
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The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025)
Before The Terminal List, Navy SEAL Ben Edwards finds himself entangled in the black operations side of the CIA. The deeper Ben goes into the 'gray', the harder it will become to not give himself over to his darker impulses. Every man has…
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The Mosquito Coast (2021)
Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
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Hernán (2019)
The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is Mexico and faces both local demons and those who have sailed with him.
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Most Dangerous Game (2020)
Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey.
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Harlots (2017)
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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Robin Hood (2025)
A modern reimagining of the classic tale. After the Norman invasion of England, Rob, a Saxon forester’s son, and Marian, a Norman lord’s daughter, fall in love and unite to fight for justice, challenge corruption, and restore peace to the…
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Legends (2026)
As drugs flood the streets of '90s Britain, a team of civil servants is thrust undercover to topple the gangs behind it.
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Boundless (2022)
The First Circumvallation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
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Jamestown (2017)
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
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Copper (2012)
Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his…
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Knots Landing (1979)
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
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Sharpe (1993)
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes…