# The best miniseries of all time

From Band of Brothers to Chernobyl: the miniseries rated highest by FilmAffinity and IMDb users and by critics (FilmAffinity, Jot Down, IMDb).

- 29 votes · 16 items
- Aug 5, 2021 · abril torres
- https://even.best/en/l/2178/the-best-miniseries-of-all-time

## Top 15

1. **Lonesome Dove (1989)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Two former Rangers drive cattle from Texas to Montana.
2. **Roots (1977)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Kunta Kinte and generations of an enslaved family.
3. **Band of Brothers (2001)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Easy Company of the 101st Airborne in the Second World War.
4. **I, Claudius (1976)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Derek Jacobi and the Rome of the Julio-Claudians.
5. **Fanny and Alexander (1983)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bergman's long television version.
6. **The Night Of (2016)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A Pakistani-American student accused of murder.
7. **Chernobyl (2019)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The 1986 nuclear disaster and the official lie.
8. **Jesus of Nazareth (1977)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Franco Zeffirelli and Robert Powell.
9. **The Queen's Gambit (2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Beth Harmon, chess prodigy.
10. **Mare of Easttown (2021)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kate Winslet as a detective in a Pennsylvania town.
11. **Olive Kitteridge (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Frances McDormand as a prickly teacher in Maine.
12. **Okupas (2000)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Four young men in a squatted house in Buenos Aires.
13. **North and South (1985)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Two friends on opposite sides of the Civil War.
14. **The Pacific (2010)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Three marines in the Pacific War.
15. **Angels in America (2003)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Mike Nichols's adaptation of Tony Kushner's play.
16. **Sharp Objects (2018)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Amy Adams returns to her hometown to cover two murders.

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