Best Canadian history series

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch history shows from Canada, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Lost Car Rescue

    Lost Car Rescue 2022

    New Series Lost Car Rescue Traverses the Northern Canadian Wilderness in Search of Hidden Car Treasure

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  • Poster for Perfect Storms

    Perfect Storms 2013

    Investigates what happens when a series of natural and human events catastrophically coincide to change the course of history.

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  • For King and Empire 2003

    This documentary examines the role of the Canadian soldiers during World War I. It follows the story of a few individual soldiers, but also presents historical research about army platoons and groups of friends in the war. All of the stories presented give the audience a well-rounded view of the Canadian army and the role that it played in World War I.

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  • Back in Time for Winter 2020

    Follows one modern family on a winter time-travelling adventure, as they take on 60 years of iconic outdoor activities and trends in cold-weather food, fashion, domestic work and technology. Beginning in the 1940s, each week the Carlson family will leave their modern comforts behind and enter a new era of winters’ past. They’ll experience firsthand how growing affluence, innovations in style, technology, and increasing global influence have transformed Canadian winterlife.

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  • The Secret Liberators 0

    Historian, Norm Christie, examines the locations, including the Buchenwald and Flossenberg Concentrations Camps, where the Canadians who operated in Occupied Europe fought their clandestine battles.

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  • For King and Country 2008

    Military historian Norm Christie goes to Canadian battlefields, monuments and cemeteries to present the Second World War from the point of view of ordinary soldiers who tell their stories in their own words. A mixture of archival footage, photographs, artwork and re-enactment creates a sense of what it was really like to fight "For King and Country."

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  • E! True Hollywood Story (Canada) 2008

    This is the E! True Hollywood Story Canadian version. Apparently they did a short series (10 episodes) based around Canadian people. It's the same network and same production as the American version.

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  • Poster for Stratusphere

    Stratusphere 2008

    Seven-time WWE world champion Trish Stratus is going to the mat for a globe-trotting adventure. She travels to some of the world's most exotic locations -- Indonesia, Thailand, New Zealand and Fiji among them -- to explore the history and culture of the cities she visits, and to take part in some daring physical challenges.

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  • Red Light Districts 2003

    Red Light Districts Over the World

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