Best Collection Of TV Shows About Early America

Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.

OTT Platforms for The Good Lord Bird are fuboTV, Showtime Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, Showtime, and DIRECTV Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

This documentary-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.

OTT Platforms for Grant are DIRECTV Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”

A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.

OTT Platforms for Warrior are HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, and Spectrum On Demand Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, and Vudu.

The epic history behind the creation of America, exploring how and why our ancestors came to this country. Examine the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States through the telling of historical events including the Dutch Fur Trade, the Great Potato Famine, the California Gold Rush and more.

OTT Platforms for America: Promised Land are Hoopla, DIRECTV Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.

OTT Platforms for Jamestown are Sky Go, Now TV, and Virgin TV Go Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Video.

Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. Uncover the forgotten history of Warren and stories of other unsung heroes in our fight for independence.

OTT Platforms for The American Revolution are fuboTV, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, and Discovery Plus Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

OTT Platforms for TURN: Washington's Spies are Netflix Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.

A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.

OTT Platforms for Lonesome Dove are Starz Play Amazon Channel, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz, DIRECTV, and Spectrum On Demand Apple iTunes, Amazon Video.

This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

OTT Platforms for Little House on the Prairie are DIRECTV Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, and Vudu.

Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew parallels with 1960s political activism.

The story of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, an American patriot who fought the British Tories using unusual methods, becoming known as “The Swamp Fox.”

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

OTT Platforms for Bonanza are DIRECTV, Pure Flix, Classix, and FlixFling Amazon Video, FlixFling.