Five incredible historical series: what to watch this weekend

Immersion in the past, crime investigations, legendary adventures, brave battles, the search for survival and understanding - everything awaits fans of historical events. UNN offers a selection of TV series to watch on weekends.

Manhunt 2024 - events revolve around the investigation of the assassination of the sixteenth president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln. The plot centers on the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who is actively searching for the actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot the president in the theater. Stanton is determined to catch the killer and take revenge.

• Genre: Drama series, Thriller, Historical

• Country: USA

• Director: Carl Franklin, Jan Oxenberg, Julianne Meagher

• Cast: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simon, Lily Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Anne Dudek.

Vikings: Valhalla 2022-2024 - the series is set in the early 11th century and tells the story of the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived: Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Gardrad and the Norman king William the Conqueror. These men and women blaze a trail, fighting for survival in a world that is constantly changing and evolving.

• Genre: Series, Drama, Action, Melodrama, Adventure, Historical, Military

• Country: USA

• Director: David Frasier, Hannah Quinn, Steve St. Ledger

•  Cast: Taylor James, Sam Corlett, Leo Suter, Johannes Gaukur Johannesson, Frida Gustavsson, Louise Richter, Christopher Rai, Pääru Oja, Laura Berlin.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz 2024 is a series based on the novel of the same name, a powerful real-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing identification numbers on the hands of prisoners in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Feeling unbearable pangs of conscience, he was forced to survive at all costs.

• Genre: drama, war, history

• Country: United Kingdom

• Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer

• Cast: Anna Pruchniak, Melanie Lynskey, Harvey Keitel, Jonah Hauer-King, Jonas Nye, Mili Eshet, Avital Lvov, Frederik von Lüttischau.

All the Light We Cannot See 2023 - Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the National Museum where her father works. When she turns twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and the father and his blind daughter flee to Saint-Malo, where a relative lives. And in a mining town in Germany, an orphan named Werner Pfennig is fascinated by a primitive radio he finds, which he uses to listen to news and stories from places he has never seen or imagined. Werner gradually became an expert in radio engineering, and then the Wehrmacht took notice of his talent. In August 1944, in occupied Saint-Malo, Marie-Laura records anti-Nazi radio broadcasts, while the young German soldier Werner listens intently to her every word. Their individual searches for survival and understanding lead to an unexpected rapprochement that profoundly changes their lives.

• Genre: Series, Drama, Historical, Military

• Country: USA

• Director: Shawn Levy

• Cast: Aria Mia Loberti, Luis Hoffmann, Lars Eidinger, Hugh Laurie, Mark Ruffalo, Jakob Diehl, James Dryden, Corinne Silva, Marion Bailey, Luna Wedler.

The Artful Dodger 2023 is a sequel to Dickens' Oliver Twist, which explores the adult double life of the famous prince of thieves. The story takes place in 1850s Australia, in a bustling town. Former London pickpocket Jack Dawkins has established himself as a talented surgeon. Jack's law-abiding life begins to change when his old friend Norbert Fagin appears, luring him back into the world of crime.

•  Genre: Series, Drama, Crime, Historical

• Country: Australia

• Directed by: Jeffrey Walker, Corrie Chen, Gracie Otto

• Cast: Thomas Sangster, David Thewlis, Maya Mitchell, Damon Herriman, Luke Carroll, Vivienne Avosoga, Damien Harvey, Lucy Rose Leonard, Tim Minchin.