I have been watching America: The Story of Us...and it's just ok. It's a bit too jingoistic for my tastes, and the panel of "experts" that they interview is a total joke (I don't particularly care what Sheryl Crow or Donald Trump thinks about president Lincoln).

However, I do like the high production values that the series has when it comes to the visual effects and the dramatizations. Things like that make the subject matter really engaging for me.

I'm looking for series with similarly high production values that don't dumb down the subject matter too much. Pretty much any period of history would be good, but shows about the civil war, the two world wars, and american history in general would be particularly interesting.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations!