With the onset of self-imposed quarantines due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I reached out to some friends and asked them what TV shows or movies they really loved. The following is a list of what they recommended. I hope you find something interesting to watch too.
A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.
Drama, Family, History
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Drama, War
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers.
Biography, Drama
Two regular police officers patrol Los Angeles.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
he misadventures of a blissfully macabre but extremely loving family.
Comedy, Family, Horror
A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.
Drama
An English priest is transferred to a small Irish village.
Comedy, Drama
Follows the crew of a multi million dollar charter boat in the Caribbean.
Reality TV
The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the time before he established his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Crime, Drama
A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways.
Comedy, Family
A newlywed couple's plan to leave the big city for a quieter life in Nebraska doesn't go as expected.
Comedy
Revolves around a family of New York cops.
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brilliant, brash, and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses, and the accused tick.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Chosen is the first-ever multi-season show about the life of Christ.
Biography
Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.
Crime, Drama, Mystery
An extremely pampered African Prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and will.
Comedy, Romance
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Action, Adventure, Drama
The misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home.
Comedy, Family
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Action, Adventure, War
The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and their companions from planet Earth.
Adventure, Drama, Family
The globe-trotting treasure-hunting money-making adventures of billionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews.
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
Drama
A U.S. Marshall becomes the sheriff of a remote cozy little Northwestern town of Eureka where the best minds in the US have secretly been tucked away to build futuristic inventions for the government which often go disastrously wrong.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter, and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is an actor with ambition and a script. Reduced to working as an extra with a useless agent, Andy's attempts to boost his career invariably end in failure and embarrassment.
Comedy, Drama
The adventures of a film stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter when movie work is slow.
Action, Adventure
Procedural drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the FBI, bringing to bear all the Bureau's skills, intellect and mind-blowing technology to keep New York and the country safe.
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The wartime contributions of five prominent Hollywood film directors during World War II are profiled.
Documentary, Biography, History
After her mother's death, Tohru Honda finds herself living with the Sohma family, who, when hugged by the opposite gender or are tired, turn into the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac.
Animation, Comedy, Drama
16 year old high schooler Tohru Honda unwittingly pitches her tent on land belonging to the mysterious Souma clan who, when hugged by the opposite sex, turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
Animation, Comedy, Drama
An atheist's life is turned upside down when God adds him as a friend on Facebook.
Comedy, Drama
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Drama, History, Romance
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Adventure, Drama, History
A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.
Comedy, Family
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle.
Comedy, Family, Musical
An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.
Drama, Mystery
U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens's reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal mining towns in eastern Kentucky.
Action, Crime, Drama
During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.
Drama, Comedy, War
A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.
Comedy
A crew of high-tech crooks attempt to steal from wealthy criminals and corrupt businessmen.
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit.
Action, Crime, Drama
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Adventure, Drama, Family
The wacky misadventures of a forever scheming woman, her reluctant best friend, and her cantankerous boss.
Comedy
A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Biography, Drama
A hybrid docu/live-action anthology series that portrays stories of personal sacrifice that resulted in the highest military distinction: the Medal of Honor.
Documentary, War
King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. The series tracks the newsroom staff's quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
Drama
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Comedy
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England; centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.
Crime, Drama
After losing his son in a drug-related shooting, a small town pharmacist embarks on a dogged pursuit to bring his son's killer to justice and fight Big Pharma itself.
Documentary, Crime
The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced between 1969 and 1979, starring the animated Pink Panther character from the opening credits of the live-action films.
Animation, Comedy, Family
A novice sleuth is hired by the Police after he cons them into thinking he has psychic powers which help solve crimes. With the assistance of his reluctant best friend, the duo take on a series of complicated cases.
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
Biography, Drama, Mystery
The cases of an easy going ex-convict turned private investigator.
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. sergeant who is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.
Action, Adventure, Crime
The lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask.
Action, Drama, War
The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America's first female self-made millionaire.
Drama
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Drama
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, reuniting with his estranged family, that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he's escaping.
Crime, Drama
The Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against alien invaders, and this series focuses on one squadron of Marine pilots involved in it.
Action, Adventure, Drama
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An innovative concert movie for the rock group The Talking Heads.
Documentary, Music
In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
Drama, Romance
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
Drama, Sci-Fi
The story of the sled dog, Togo, who led the 1925 serum run, but was considered by most to be too small and weak to lead such an intense race.
Adventure, Biography, Drama
An up-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit.
Action, Drama, Thriller
A Long Island farmer bands together a group of childhood friends to form an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.
Drama, History, War
Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Pete and Myka, U.S Secret Service agents, are deployed in South Dakota's Warehouse 13 with a new assignment from an authority above and outside the government.
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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