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1. Shetland (2013– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A local police team investigate crimes within the close knit island community of Shetland.
Stars: Alison O'Donnell, Steven Robertson, Douglas Henshall, Lewis Howden
Votes: 25,545
2. The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
TV-MA | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Mark Rowley, Pekka Strang, Zoltan Andrasi, Ingrid García Jonsson
Votes: 35,243
3. The Edge of the World (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, History, Romance
A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Votes: 1,976
4. Sacrifice (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After digging up a bizarrely mutilated corpse on her land, physician Tora Hamilton uncovers a lethal connection to ancient pagan rituals.
Director: Peter A. Dowling | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves, Ian McElhinney, Joanne Crawford
Votes: 4,826
5. Wild Shetland: Scotland's Viking Frontier (2019 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Ewan McGregor narrates the story of seabirds, otters, seals and orcas raising their families, hunting for food and fighting for survival on the most remote of the Shetland islands over the course of one breeding season.
Director: Jackie Savery | Star: Ewan McGregor
Votes: 31
6.
Time Team (1994– )
Episode:
Fetlar, Shetland
(2003)
Not Rated | Documentary, History
Furthest north for team, digging in a family garden for Viking evidence and excavating Viking boat burial site also. The rivets reveal the pattern.
Director: Simon Raikes | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, John Gater
Votes: 21
7.
The Swarm (2023)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2023)
44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Whale researcher Leon Anawak is concerned when an orca is found dead on the beach after allegedly attacking a fishing boat.
Director: Luke Watson | Stars: Alexander Karim, Cécile de France, Leonie Benesch, Joshua Odjick
Votes: 561
8.
A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble (2020– )
Episode:
The Cook Family
(2020)
45 min | Documentary
The Cook family leave their terraced house on a busy rat run in Exeter, to make a new start on Yell in the Shetland Islands. They plan to fund their new life through AirBnB and an isolated space for authors.
Director: Iain Robson | Star: Kate Humble
9.
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (2013– )
Episode:
Shetlands
(2022)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure
Ben journeys to one of Britain's furthest outposts - the Shetland Islands to meet Helen and Jason, a couple living on the edge of the weather-beaten island of Yell.
Director: Sean McDonnell | Star: Ben Fogle
Votes: 12
10.
Saving Lives at Sea (2016– )
Episode:
Episode #2.2
(2017)
59 min | Documentary
A kayaker has been missing off the coast of Bridlington for an hour and only the crews tidal knowledge can track him down. When a trawler sinks off the Shetland Islands the fishermen and RNLI crew must swim for their lives.
Directors: Phil Broadhurst, James Robinson | Star: Steven Mackintosh
11.
The North Water (2021)
Episode:
Behold the Man
(2021)
TV-MA | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Patrick Sumner, hoping to escape the horrors of his past, finds himself on an ill-fated journey to the arctic that throws him into the path of brutish harpooner Henry Drax.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Kris Hitchen, Mark Rowley, Stephen McMillan
Votes: 735
12.
Close Calls: On Camera (2014– )
Episode:
Episode #5.17
(2018)
44 min | Drama, Reality-TV
A trawler is sinking and one of the rescuers learns close friends are on board. A little boy is stuck inside a tumble dryer and the family pet alerts his mum. On the Swiss ski slopes a skier disappears down a crevasse.
Directors: Jake Borthwick-Jacobs, Cheryl Kingston, Beth Parkes, Matthew Phypers | Star: Nick Knowles