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.
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Description: Period drama. Young 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.
Call the Midwife
Description: Drama set in London's East End during the 1950s, based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth.; Category: Medical Drama; 16 episodes available.
Campion
Description: Detective drama series adapted from the novels by Margery Allingham.; Category: Crime Drama; 5 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 a 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. Author Christopher Isherwood sets out to find himself.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.
Copper
Description: Crime drama set in New York during the 1860s, with Tom Weston-Jones.; Category: Crime Drama; 23 episodes 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. Arrivals at a Nazi concentration camp join a bold scheme.; Category: Movies; 1 episode available.
Father Brown
Description: Drama series based on the stories by GK Chesterton about a crime-solving priest.; Category: Crime Drama; 16 episodes available.
Gunpowder
Description: Historical drama, starring Kit Harington.; Category: Period Drama; 3 episodes available.
Harlots
Description: Period drama about a woman struggling 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 following a woman who moves to the Italian Riviera in the 1920s to set up a hotel.; Category: Period Drama; 18 episodes available.
Ladies in Black
Description: Women working at a Sydney department store 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.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Description: Australian mystery series about the adventures of sleuth Phryne Fisher in the 1920s.; Category: Crime Drama; 34 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 says she witnessed 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 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; 24 episodes available.
Brand New Monsieur Spade
Description: Clive Owen plays Detective Sam Spade, whose quiet life in France is disrupted by murder.; Category: Crime Drama; 6 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.
Outrageous
Description: Six aristocratic sisters come of age during the turbulent 1930s.; 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.
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; 36 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 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; 30 episodes available.
The Alienist
Description: Period drama about a reporter, a psychologist and a young woman investigating a 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: Thriller based on the 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 involved in a dangerous conspiracy.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.
The Million Pound Note
Description: Comedy adapted from a story by Mark Twain. A seaman settles a bet between millionaires.; Category: Movies; 1 episode available.
The Miniaturist
Description: A woman in 17th century Amsterdam asks a mysterious miniaturist to embellish a dollhouse.; Category: Period Drama; 3 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 about 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.
Upstairs Downstairs
Description: At 165 Eaton Place, the fates of the servants and the family are intimately linked.; Category: Period Drama; 9 episodes available.
