12 Best Miniseries of All Time

By Vlad Zakh · August 7, 2026

Chernobyl and Band of Brothers tell one complete, devastating story with a proper beginning and end, and no filler. The Queen’s Gambit became a phenomenon from a premise, competitive chess, that shouldn’t have worked so well. I May Destroy You follows a writer piecing together the night she was assaulted, When They See Us dramatises the Central Park Five’s wrongful conviction, and Olive Kitteridge spans three decades of a prickly woman’s life in Maine. The Undoing, The Night Of, Sharp Objects, Mare of Easttown, Fosse/Verdon and Roots round out the list.

I May Destroy You (2020) 01

I May Destroy You (2020)

TMDB ★ 7.2

A writer pieces together the night she was assaulted and asks what justice actually looks like afterwards.

The Undoing (2020) 02

The Undoing (2020)

TMDB ★ 7.4

A therapist's seemingly perfect life unravels after her husband becomes a murder suspect.

When They See Us (2019) 03

When They See Us (2019)

TMDB ★ 8.2

Aunjanue Ellis features in this series about five falsely accused teenagers who navigate a wrongful conviction and its devastating aftermath.

Directed by Mark Ritchie · 1h 01m

Where to watch

Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

Olive Kitteridge (2014) 04

Olive Kitteridge (2014)

TMDB ★ 7.6

A prickly, difficult woman's life in a small Maine town, told across three decades.

The Night Of (2016) 05

The Night Of (2016)

TMDB ★ 8.0

A young man's one bad night spirals into a murder charge that consumes his entire life.

Fosse/Verdon (2019) 06

Fosse/Verdon (2019)

TMDB ★ 7.0

The complicated partnership between choreographer Bob Fosse and dancer Gwen Verdon.

Roots (1977) 07

Roots (1977)

TMDB ★ 7.4

A generation-spanning dramatisation of one family's history from slavery through emancipation.

Sharp Objects (2018) 08

Sharp Objects (2018)

TMDB ★ 7.8

A troubled journalist returns to her hometown to cover a string of murders and confront her own painful past.

The Queen's Gambit (2020) 09

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

TMDB ★ 8.4

Anya Taylor-Joy turned a show about chess into a genuine phenomenon on performance alone.

Mare of Easttown (2021) 10

Mare of Easttown (2021)

TMDB ★ 8.2

A small-town Pennsylvania detective investigates a murder while her own life quietly falls apart.

Band of Brothers (2001) 11

Band of Brothers (2001)

TMDB ★ 8.6

An Easy Company paratrooper unit followed from D-Day training to the end of the war in Europe.

Chernobyl (2019) 12

Chernobyl (2019)

TMDB ★ 8.7

A harrowing, meticulous dramatisation of the 1986 nuclear disaster and its cover-up.

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Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.