All the best History Shows Streaming on DocPlay in July 2025

If you're looking for the best History Shows then you’ve come to the right place. In July 2025 DocPlay has around 112 on offer. Below are the top 20 latest and greatest History Shows streaming on the service

The top 20 best History Shows Streaming on DocPlay by rating.

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Plan
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Price
Premium
  • 7-day free trial
  • Premium
  • No Lock-in Contract
  • Available in 4K, stream on 2 devices
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  • $40/mth
$40/mth
$40/month after 7-day FREE trial, no lock-in contracts.

Basic
  • Get BINGE Basic from $5/mth for 5 months
  • Offer extended 15 June 2025
  • Basic
  • No Lock-in Contract
  • Stream in HD on a single device
  • 25,000+ hours of the world's best shows & movies
  • $5/mth
$5/mth
For the first 5 months, reverts to $10 after promo period
Min Cost - $5 per month

Starter
  • 10-Day FREE Trial
  • Starter
  • No Lock-in Contract
  • Award winning Foxtel Originals, best drama, Lifestyle favourites & more
  • Login on 5 devices and watch 2 at the same time
  • $35/mth
$35/mth
Min Cost - $35 over 1 month

The top 5 History Shows Streaming on DocPlay in Australia.

The Vietnam War

Seasons: 9

Rated: TV-MA

9.1/10

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

The War

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-14

9.0/10

The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

The Civil War

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-14

9.0/10

A comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War.

World War Two

Seasons: 8

Rated: N/A

9/10

Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-14

8.8/10

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.