Period Drama Series & Episodes
Period Drama
Hotel Portofino
Description: Drama series following a woman who moves to the Italian Riviera in the 1920s to set up a British hotel.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.
Home Fires
Description: Drama about a group of Women's Institute members during the Second World War.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.
A Small Light
Description: Drama inspired by the true story of the couple who risked their lives to hide Anne Frank's family during WWII.; Category: Period Drama; 8 episodes available.
Atlantic Crossing
Description: Norwegian Crown Princess Martha fights to save her country during World War II.; Category: Period Drama; 8 episodes available.
The Hour
Description: Cold War drama series following two reporters who become involved in a dangerous conspiracy.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.
Tenko
Description: The lives of British women in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp; Category: Period Drama; 29 episodes available.
The Pursuit of Love
Description: Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel with Lily James and Emily Beecham.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.
Lark Rise to Candleford
Description: Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood.; Category: Period Drama; 40 episodes available.
The Porter
Description: Series following railway porters in St Antoine, Montreal, as they form the first Black union.; Category: Period Drama; 8 episodes available.
The Bletchley Circle
Description: Drama about four fictional ex-Bletchley Park operatives.; Category: Crime Drama; 7 episodes available.
Cranford
Description: Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.; Category: Period Drama; 5 episodes available.
Masters of Sex
Description: American drama chronicling the lives of two pioneering researchers of human sexuality.; Category: International Drama; 46 episodes available.
Call the Midwife
Description: Drama set in London's East End during the 1950s, based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth.; Category: Medical Drama; 31 episodes available.
The Musketeers
Description: A thrilling world of action, adventure and romance inspired by Dumas' characters.; Category: Period Drama; 30 episodes available.
Operation Buffalo
Description: Drama inspired by the 1950s British nuclear testing in South Australia.; Category: International Drama; 6 episodes available.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Description: A beautiful young aristocrat embarks on a forbidden affair with a servant.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.
New Series Sister Boniface Mysteries
Description: Sister Boniface - nun, moped rider, wine maker - and part-time forensic scientist.; Category: Crime Drama; 30 episodes available.
Death Comes to Pemberley
Description: A sequel to Pride and Prejudice adapted from the novel by PD James.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.
The House Of Eliott
Description: Period drama series following the fortunes of two sisters in 1920s London.; Category: Period Drama; 34 episodes available.
The Paradise
Description: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s.; Category: Period Drama; 16 episodes available.
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Description: Period drama. Young writer Agatha Christie travels to Baghdad and gets caught in a web of murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.
Campion
Description: Detective drama series adapted from the novels by Margery Allingham.; Category: Crime Drama; 16 episodes available.
Father Brown
Description: Drama series based on the stories by GK Chesterton about a crime-solving Roman Catholic priest.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.
Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Description: A woman makes an appeal to Agatha Christie for help in solving the murder of a nurse.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.
Rillington Place
Description: Grim telling of the real-life murders carried out by John Christie in the 1940s and 50s.; Category: Crime Drama; 3 episodes available.
Lucan
Description: Drama based on the true story of infamous aristocrat John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.
The Great Train Robbery
Description: Drama series based on the most infamous heist in British history.; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.