Period TV Series, a list by Rich

7.2

/2282/

65

/103/

71

/17/

3.3

/2253/

After a whirlwind romance, Olivia finds herself as the mistress of the imposing Foxworth Hall, where she soon discovers that the fairy tale life she expected has quickly become a nightmare.

72

7.7

/13378/

74

/417/

73

/106/

67

/5/

age 13+

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

72

8.1

/44074/

78

/1298/

79

/201/

4.2

/131477/

70

/105/

82

62

/38/

2.5

age 15+

In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers — Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne — the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicago's Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band members finally agree to reveal the truth.

78

8.1

/25532/

80

/1593/

80

/704/

72

/11/

Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.

66

6.1

/18470/

66

/1332/

71

/351/

80

/40/

52

61

/15/

age 14+

In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

86

8.6

/21774/

82

/773/

82

/142/

99

/46/

86

84

/27/

age 10+

The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

69

61

7.0

/6101/

68

/229/

69

/84/

3.2

/1638/

The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.

72

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8.4

/167/

61

/11/

Master craftsman and woodworker Eric Hollenbeck is in the restoration business, taking historic homes and forgotten treasures around his hometown of Eureka, California, and giving them new life.

81

7.7

/14159/

76

/661/

73

/58/

3.8

/9136/

90

/68/

85

80

/31/

3.5

age 15+

The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.

75

IMDb 35

7.4

/10649/

74

/1064/

68

/78/

84

/48/

78

77

/29/

age 16+

Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.

67

66

6.0

/10083/

60

/440/

65

/100/

3.2

/1957/

75

/65/

74

61

/31/

3.0

age 14+

When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women, Maddie Schwartz and Cleo Sherwood, converge on a fatal collision course.

77

71

7.7

/4337/

75

/255/

69

/40/

3.6

/545/

80

/5/

85

age 14+

The legendary feud between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton unfolds through vivid reenactments in this gritty docudrama about the gunfight that defined an era.

72

67

7.1

/4172/

68

/180/

65

/57/

81

/21/

78

73

/11/

age 15+

The fascinating story of the early life of England’s most iconic Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court on her journey to obtain the crown.

65

51

7.0

/2537/

63

/95/

64

/26/

42

/12/

93

59

/7/

age 15+

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.

69

58

7.6

/4153/

69

/155/

73

/38/

3.4

/248/

59

/10/

Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being thrown in at the deep end with a murder enquiry.

84

8.4

/17563/

80

/960/

78

/234/

97

/102/

92

87

/51/

3.0

age 13+

This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

69

6.3

/8550/

63

/555/

66

/127/

3.2

/3601/

76

/45/

71

69

/19/

3.0

age 14+

London widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond of science and skepticism with the local vicar—but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.

66

48

6.9

/3938/

63

/118/

67

/33/

A classic whodunit mystery, as the characters go about their lives in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.

71

8.0

/13601/

78

/617/

80

/135/

4.0

/4388/

77

/35/

75

60

/17/

2.0

age 16+

The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

73

70

7.4

/8842/

74

/255/

74

/76/

92

/39/

54

73

/18/

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

83

8.5

/45524/

83

/2592/

83

/697/

92

/86/

93

63

/50/

age 17+

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

80

7.6

/73610/

80

/2924/

80

/631/

4.1

/102930/

94

/80/

74

76

/30/

age 16+

The story of how the young Queen Charlotte’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton.

81

7.5

/37144/

79

/1990/

73

/319/

99

/100/

78

83

/44/

age 15+

A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

90

IMDb 90

9.3

/1004366/

90

/34377/

86

/7422/

4.6

/632783/

95

/102/

97

82

/27/

3.5

age 16+

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

78

8.2

/34001/

79

/1326/

73

/277/

87

/72/

84

67

/27/

age 13+

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

82

7.9

/16306/

74

/542/

71

/64/

4.0

/9717/

95

/40/

90

84

/14/

age 15+

It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?

70

38

7.3

/1704/

73

/131/

77

/13/

58

/4/

The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.

79

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7.9

/228/

76

/11/

84

/5/

age 10+

In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how the Victorian East End changed our attitude to poverty forever.

81

8.7

/157950/

83

/4970/

83

/838/

4.2

/17149/

89

/27/

78

69

/12/

age 15+

Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.

70

59

7.5

/3102/

71

/100/

61

/34/

73

/22/

84

61

/20/

age 14+

Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.

70

?

7.0

/4028/

67

/312/

73

/62/

age 10+

When Frank and Joe Hardy arrive in Bridgeport, they set out to uncover the truth behind the recent tragedy that has changed their lives. In doing so, they stumble upon something much more sinister - something only the Hardy Boys can stop.

74

70

7.2

/7257/

68

/228/

69

/61/

3.6

/2992/

87

/46/

64

86

/15/

age 14+

The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

76

8.3

/292889/

81

/14745/

81

/3095/

83

/391/

57

80

/119/

age 16+

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

73

63

7.4

/3274/

70

/142/

63

/49/

60

/10/

100

The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.

77

8.1

/51517/

78

/1741/

76

/240/

89

/143/

69

70

/77/

age 14+

It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.

74

6.9

/18976/

70

/1058/

68

/216/

92

/54/

76

70

/10/

age 18+

An epic drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army – determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say.

72

6.6

/10214/

70

/623/

70

/118/

72

/62/

86

70

/26/

age 14+

A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that.

84

8.2

/17410/

80

/714/

84

/176/

4.3

/33322/

90

/47/

90

76

/25/

3.5

age 16+

A chronicle of a decades-long volatile romance between two men — from their first meeting during the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare to the AIDS crises of the 1980s.

67

63

7.5

/6085/

68

/198/

71

/63/

45

/42/

91

57

/30/

age 14+

From F. Scott Fitzgerald's last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood's Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for the soul of their studio. In a world darkened by the Depression and the growing influence of Hitler's Germany, The Last Tycoon illuminates the passions, violence and towering ambition of 1930s Hollywood.

87

8.4

/15004/

81

/573/

79

/107/

4.2

/4285/

100

/36/

95

83

/17/

3.5

age 14+

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.

80

75

8.0

/5094/

73

/183/

75

/48/

3.5

/2180/

92

/13/

93

72

/6/

A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.

77

IMDb 85

7.4

/213475/

77

/7791/

80

/3078/

84

/273/

74

72

/92/

age 16+

Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.

77

7.5

/13069/

73

/628/

68

/115/

3.9

/2249/

92

/37/

80

74

/22/

age 14+

Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.

73

7.8

/68570/

78

/3190/

78

/533/

4.0

/34111/

85

/100/

73

72

/42/

2.0

age 15+

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

69

7.6

/18538/

72

/737/

73

/209/

3.6

/3724/

53

/19/

83

62

/4/

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

77

7.3

/12404/

70

/840/

67

/191/

3.8

/5436/

87

/77/

73

82

/37/

3.5

age 16+

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

76

70

7.2

/6274/

68

/186/

72

/57/

3.5

/1906/

89

/38/

89