Vikings
Why this pick
Like The Last Kingdom, it combines muddy, tactile early-medieval warfare with shifting loyalties and a protagonist navigating rival cultures, while keeping politics and family bonds as consequential as battles.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE SERIES
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Like The Last Kingdom, it combines muddy, tactile early-medieval warfare with shifting loyalties and a protagonist navigating rival cultures, while keeping politics and family bonds as consequential as battles.
Why this pick
Its gritty historical action, divided allegiances and faith-versus-power conflicts echo The Last Kingdom’s appetite for intimate rivalries unfolding amid the formation and fracture of kingdoms.
Why this pick
This compact, tense German historical drama shares the show’s frontier atmosphere: a divided warrior caught between cultures, personal attachments and the brutal political stakes of conquest.
Why this pick
For the same blend of lived-in history, ruthless power struggles and loyal-but-strained male bonds, Rome gives imperial politics a visceral, character-first momentum.
Why this pick
Though set centuries later, its dense alliances, contested leadership and battle-hardened characters deliver a similarly adult, propulsive saga where strategy and loyalty constantly collide.
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01 / THE STORY
England, 872. A Saxon man, raised by Danes, must choose a side and play his part in the birth of a nation, alongside the man who would become known as King Alfred the Great.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Guthrum

Pyrlig

Haesten

Aldhelm

Osferth

Aethelhelm

Eardwulf

Aelflaed