Period Drama Series & Episodes

Period Drama

  • A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

    Description: Fact-based historical drama, starring Ralph Fiennes.; Category: Movies; 1 episode 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Atlantic Crossing

    Description: Norwegian Crown Princess Martha fights to save her country during World War II.; Category: Period Drama; 8 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; 23 episodes available.

  • Campion

    Description: Detective drama series adapted from the novels by Margery Allingham.; Category: Crime Drama; 16 episodes available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown

    Description: Widow Riah Millican flouts convention by allowing her children to be educated.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Dwelling Place

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets

    Description: Feature-length adaptation. A docker falls in love with the local shipyard owner's daughter.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Tide of Life

    Description: Stunning feature-length period drama following housekeeper Emily Kennedy.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter

    Description: Period drama about a 19-year-old girl who is attacked after a wedding party.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Catherine Cookson: Colour Blind

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: Dinner of Herbs

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Black Candle

    Description: An enlightened mill owner faces problems when her sister marries badly.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Cinder Path

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Gambling Man

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Girl

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Glass Virgin

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Man Who Cried

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Moth

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Round Tower

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Secret

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Wingless Bird

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Christopher and His Kind

    Description: Period drama based on real events. Novelist Christopher Isherwood sets out to find himself in Berlin.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Cranford

    Description: Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.; Category: Period Drama; 5 episodes available.

  • Cranford: Return To Cranford

    Description: Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.; Category: Period Drama; 2 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.

  • Escape from Sobibor

    Description: Drama based on a true story. New arrivals at a Nazi concentration camp become involved in a bold scheme.; Category: Movies; 1 episode available.

  • Father Brown

    Description: Drama series based on the stories by GK Chesterton about a crime-solving Roman Catholic priest.; Category: Crime Drama; 3 episodes available.

  • Gunpowder

    Description: Historical drama, starring Kit Harington.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.

  • Harlots

    Description: Period drama following Margaret Wells as she struggles to reconcile her roles as mother and brothel owner.; Category: Period Drama; 24 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.

  • 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.

  • Ladies in Black

    Description: A group of women working at a Sydney department store in the sixties navigate friendship, love and ambition.; Category: Period 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.

  • Lark Rise to Candleford

    Description: Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood.; Category: Period Drama; 40 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.

  • Masters of Sex

    Description: American drama chronicling the lives of two pioneering researchers of human sexuality.; Category: International Drama; 46 episodes available.

  • Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

    Description: Australian mystery series about the adventures of sleuth Phryne Fisher in the 1920s.; Category: Crime Drama; 8 episodes available.

  • Miss Marple

    Description: Detective drama series featuring Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.; Category: Crime Drama; 9 episodes available.

  • Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

    Description: Miss Marple's bloodhound instincts are triggered when a friend claims to have witnessed a murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Miss Marple: The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side

    Description: An American film star throws a party for the entire village of St Mary Mead.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors

    Description: When an old friend of Miss Marple's invites her to stay, she meets an eccentric extended family.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Miss Scarlet and the Duke

    Description: Crime drama set in Victorian London, starring Kate Phillips.; Category: Crime Drama; 18 episodes available.

  • North and South

    Description: Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel set across the social divide in the Victorian age.; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.

  • Operation Buffalo

    Description: Drama inspired by the 1950s British nuclear testing in South Australia.; Category: International Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • Outrageous

    Description: Six aristocratic sisters come of age during the turbulent 1930s. This is the true story of the Mitfords.; Category: Period Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • Pride and Prejudice

    Description: A dramatisation of Jane Austen's classic story of social mores.; Category: Period Drama; 6 episodes 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.

  • Sharpe's Challenge

    Description: Sharpe arrives in India and learns that a British general's daughter has been kidnapped.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Sharpe's Peril

    Description: Sharpe and Sgt Major Harper accompany a crew of soldiers through India.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Sister Boniface Mysteries

    Description: Sister Boniface - nun, moped rider, wine maker - and part-time forensic scientist.; Category: Crime Drama; 28 episodes available.

  • Sister Boniface Mysteries: Once Upon a Time

    Description: Sister Boniface investigates when the Christmas production of Cinderella turns into the pantomime of death.; Category: Crime Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Sister Boniface Mysteries: The Star of the Orient

    Description: Sister Boniface is confronted by the theft of a cursed jewel and an impossible murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Stonewall

    Description: Drama with Guillermo Diaz. A Greenwich Village riot leads to a defining moment in the gay rights movement.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Tenko

    Description: The lives of British women in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp; Category: Period Drama; 29 episodes available.

  • That Day We Sang

    Description: All-singing and all-dancing heart-warming British musical.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • The Alienist

    Description: Period crime drama following a reporter, a psychologist and a young woman investigating a serial killer.; Category: Crime Drama; 18 episodes available.

  • The Bletchley Circle

    Description: Drama about four fictional ex-Bletchley Park operatives.; Category: Crime Drama; 7 episodes available.

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    Description: Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, starring Sam Claflin.; Category: Period Drama; 8 episodes available.

  • The Doctor Blake Mysteries

    Description: Crime drama. Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake solves crimes.; Category: Crime Drama; 44 episodes available.

  • The Fourth Protocol

    Description: Tense thriller based on the best-selling novel by Frederick Forsyth. A British spy stumbles onto a plot.; Category: Movies; 1 episode available.

  • The Game

    Description: Stylish and complex Cold War spy thriller set in the secretive world of 1970s espionage.; Category: Period Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • The Great Train Robbery

    Description: Drama series based on the most infamous heist in British history.; Category: Period Drama; 4 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.

  • The House Of Eliott

    Description: Period drama series following the fortunes of two sisters in 1920s London.; Category: Period Drama; 34 episodes available.

  • The Million Pound Note

    Description: Comedy adapted from a story by Mark Twain. A seaman settles a bet between two millionaires.; Category: Movies; 1 episode available.

  • The Miniaturist

    Description: A young woman in 17th century Amsterdam seeks the help of a mysterious miniaturist to embellish a dollhouse.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.

  • The Musketeers

    Description: A thrilling world of action, adventure and romance inspired by Dumas' characters.; Category: Period Drama; 30 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.

  • 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 Pursuit of Love

    Description: Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel with Lily James and Emily Beecham.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.

  • The Square Peg

    Description: Wartime comedy. A bumbling council workman and his officious boss are drafted into the Army during WWII.; Category: Movies; 1 episode available.

  • Upstairs Downstairs

    Description: At 165 Eaton Place, the fates of the servants 'downstairs' and the family 'upstairs' are intimately linked.; Category: Period Drama; 9 episodes available.