Best biography & crime shows streaming, ranked.

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison but he cuts a deal with the FBI to befriend a suspected serial killer. Keene has to elicit a confession from Larry Hall to find the bodies of as many as eighteen wo...

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Various chronicles of deception, intrigue, and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. All of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.

Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's never-before-revealed experiences of making The Godfather (1972).

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

In modern-day London, brilliant but eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes teams with war veteran Dr. John Watson to crack baffling crimes, outwit formidable foes, and aid Scotland Yard with razor-sharp deduction.

An anthology series centered around America's most notorious crimes and criminals. American Crime Story focuses on epic events in America's history.

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Chronicles the ups and downs of legendary music group New Edition from their humble beginnings in Boston to individual solo success and everything in between.

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

An anthology series centering on famous feuds, including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Truman Capote and the New York elite.

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma and sets out for New York City, determined to find Harrison and make things right. But when Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.

The real-life story of IPS Officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS Officer Shraddha Joshi.

Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them.

Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

A royal woman living in rural Russia during the 18th century is forced to choose between her own personal happiness and the future of Russia, when she marries an Emperor.

The show tracks the Wu Tang Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs, who strives to unite a dozen young Black men who are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet, Emily Dickinson.

Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

DeeDee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter Gypsy, who tries to escape her toxic relationship with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets that ultimately leads to murder.

A skeptical psychologist and scientist join a Catholic priest-in-training to investigate the church's backlog of unexplained mysteries, miracles, and demonic possessions.

A white South African girl and a Black American family find themselves in a difficult situation when the girl is sent to spend a term as an exchange student with the family in America.

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong triggering a series of events that send them, their father and the wife of one brother barreling toward a shattering climax.

In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.

A female prison employee in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.

A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.

Ray Donovan, a professional "fixer" for the rich and famous in Los Angeles, can make anyone's problems disappear except those created by his own family.

Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a la...

After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in the affluent town of Neptune.

When Diane Lockhart's life savings are lost, she must start from scratch at a new firm.

While stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, a traveling salesman is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fort...

A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.

Famous "psychic", Patrick Jane, outs himself as a fake, and using his heightened observational skills and impeccable knowledge of the human psyche, he works with the police so he can find "Red John", the madman who killed his family.

A modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of West Texas oil rigs.

The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.

A young Dexter Morgan transitions into an avenging serial killer.

An inside look at the romantic and creative partnership between influential choreographer/director, Bob Fosse, and Gwen Verdon, one of the greatest Broadway dancers of all time.

A singular profile of pop superstar Robbie Williams, chronicling his meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence.

A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.

Obsessed with the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl near a freezing lake in New Zealand, a brave detective will find herself up against small-town secrets and a side of herself that was meticulously kept at bay.

In the 1890s, William Murdoch uses radical forensic techniques for the time, including fingerprinting and trace evidence, to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.

Charles Falco, an ex-confidential informant of a US law enforcement unit, infiltrates Vagos, a notorious motorcycle gang, as an undercover agent. He faces obstacles galore over three years with Vagos.

In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico helps police solve violent serial crimes using profiling. Team members analyze evidence and psychology to catch unknown subjects, but their demanding work affects personal lives.

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

In Manhattan in the summer of 1979, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime, and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it before the true criminal strikes again.

A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted murder plot that promises to change the course of their lives.

Follows the NYPD's specially trained squad of detectives who investigate sex crimes, including rape, paedophilia, child abuse, human trafficking and domestic violence.

A series of bank robberies and car heists frightens communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals but rather a group of dangerous domestic terr...

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

James "Ghost" St. Patrick--a wealthy New York nightclub owner who has it all: dreaming big, catering to the city's elite, and living a double life as a drug kingpin.

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.

A law school graduate becomes the protégée of a successful high-stakes litigator.

Doctors and nurses at the intensive care unit of a New Orleans hospital struggle with treating patients during Hurricane Katrina when the facility is without power for 5 days.

A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s. A TV prequel to the 2007 film, 'American Gangster', which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas.

Ten years after faking his death in Miami and moving to Upstate New York under an assumed name, Dexter gets an unexpected visit from the son he abandoned.

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the tr...

Amid the political turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert is forced into hiding and seeks help from the underground resistance as he tries to flee the country with his young son.

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.

A prisoner becomes a lawyer and fights to overturn his life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.

The story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

TV series that chronicles Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company.

The series follows detectives during the hours immediately following a homicide.

In the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.

The Met drafts in 3 retired detectives to work under a serving officer, to investigate old cases with the benefit of modern technology and techniques, creating the Unsolved Crimes and Open cases Squad.

A father and son who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police that sets off a manhunt.

The story of Roger Sharpe, the young midwesterner who overturned New York City's 35 year-old ban on pinball machines.

A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant.

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth teams up with the Jeffersonian's top anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, to investigate cases where all that's left of the victims are their bones.

In 1973 Rome, John Paul Getty III, the heir and younger member of an oil tycoons' clan, is kidnapped by the Italian Mafia in order to get a ransom.

Follows the story of the loyal women of an organized crime family that dominated some of the boroughs of New York City in the late 20th century.

Two Part drama which focuses on the New York criminal Justice System by showing a violent crime investigated by police detectives in the first half and then the trial of the accused in court by the prosecutors in the second half.

The FBI and ATF seize religious leader David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in the spring of 1993.

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.

A look at the romance between famed country musicians George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

Explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence.

A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's' office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.

A team of Crime Scene Investigators (CSI's) work with the Las Vegas Police Department (LVPD) to solve crimes by using advanced scientific methods and technology in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The limited drama series is a gripping, character-driven thriller based on the 2012 New York Times best selling novel of the same name by William Landay. An assistant DA's world is shattered when his beloved son gets charged with ...

A hedge fund manager resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family's lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home.

Follows the professional and personal lives of the Reagans, a family of New York Cops, who all work in different positions of law enforcement and work together to solve crimes and protect the city from danger.

The greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world's most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.

Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster-care system. Determined to make sure that nobody else feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, is proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. This film depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events.

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

An investigating judge struggles with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran caused by the death of a young woman. When his gun goes missing, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing harsh measures that fray family ties.

A determined bookstore owner in Tulsa moonlights as an investigative journalist, digging into local corruption. When his reporting uncovers sinister connections, he must protect both his family and the truth.

The origin story of Somen "Steve" Banerjee, the Indian-American entrepreneur who started the stripper troupe Chippendales.

An ailing woman takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.