A list of period dramas / historical dramas / costume dramas made for TV and includes TV series, mini-series, and TV movies. These include BBC Period Dramas and ITV Period Dramas. Newly added titles will be bolded.

For fantasy/fairytale films with an unspecified time period, please see Costume Dramas: Fairytales/Fantasy.

** Please note that this page has not been updated since 2017. Please refer to the period drama posts for updated listings! **

Medieval (500-1485)

• The Bastard Executioner (2015)
• ITV’s Beowulf (2016)
• Cadfael (1994-96)
• Camelot (2011-2012)
• Charlemagne (1993)
• Da Vinci’s Demons (2013-Present)
• Francesco (TV movie: 2014)
• ARD’s Das Geheimnis der Hebamme / The Midwife’s Secret (2016)
• The Glamorous Imperial Concubine (2011)
• Die Hebamme 2 / The Midwife 2 (2016)
• The Hollow Crown (2012)
• Richard II
• Henry IV Pt 1
• Henry IV Pt 2
• Henry V
• Joan of Arc (1999)
• Isenhart – Die Jagd nach dem Seelenfänger / Isenhard: The Hunt is on for your Soul (2011)
• Ivanhoe (1997)
• Kaamelott (2005-2010)
• Knightfall (2017)
• Labyrinth (2012)
• BBC2’s The Last Kingdom S1-3 (2015-Present)
• The Lion in Winter (2003)
• Netflix’s Marco Polo (2014)
• Netflix’s Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes (2015)
• Marco Polo (2007)
• Medici: Masters of Florence (2016)
• The Mists of Avalon (2001)
• The Pillars of the Earth (2010-11)
• The Revival: Ertuğrul (2014-Present)
• ABC’s Still Star-Crossed (2017)
• Vikings (2013-Present)
• Die Wanderhure / The Whore (TV movie 1: 2010)
• Die Rache der Wanderhure (TV movie 2: 2012)
• Das Vermächtnis der Wanderhure (TV movie 3: 2012)
• World Without End (2012)

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Tudor & Elizabethan (1485-1603)

• BBC’s The Borgias (1981)
• ZDF’s Borgia (2011)
• Showtime’s The Borgias (2011-2013)
• Carlos, Rey Emperador (2015)
• Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)
• Elizabeth I (2005)
• Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004)
• Mahmut & Meryem (2013) – haven’t seen
• Magnificent Century / Muhtesem Yüzyil (2011-14)
• The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
• Princes in the Tower (2005)
• Reign (2013-Present)
• BBC2’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016)
  • Henry VI Pt 1
  • Henry VI Pt 2
  • Richard III
• Salem (2014-Present)
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
• The Tudors (2006-2009)
• Upstart Crow (2016)
• The Virgin Queen (2005)
• A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)
• The White Princess (2017)
• BBC’s The White Queen (2013)
• Will (2017)
• Wolf Hall (2015)

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Stuart (1603-1714)

• Águila Roja (2009)
• Black Sails S1-4 (2014-Present)
• Clarissa (1991)
• The Devil’s Whore (2008)
• Don Quixote (2000)
• Frenchman’s Creek (1998)
• The Great Fire (2014)
• Jamestown S1-2 (2017)
• Juana Ines (2016)
• The Lady and the Highwayman (1989)
• Lorna Doone (2001)
• BBC’s The Miniaturist (2017?)
• Muhtesem Yüzyil: Kösem (2015)
• BBC’s The Musketeers S1-3 (2014-2016)
• New Worlds (2014) – haven’t seen
• La princesa de Éboli (2010)
• The Queen and the Cardinal / La reine et le cardinal (2009)
• Canal+’s Versailles S1-2 (2015-Present)
• Versailles, le rêve d’un roi / Versailles: The Dream of a King (2008)

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Georgian/Regency (1714-1837)

• Alborada (2005)
• Anno 1790 (2011)
• Aristocrats (1999)
• Banished (2015)
• Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006)
• CBC’s The Book of Negroes (2015)
• BBC’s Byron (2003)
• Casanova (2015)
• Catherine the Great (TV movie: 1996)
• Catherine the Great (docu-drama: 2005)
• Channel 4’s City of Vice (2008)
• BBC’s Dangerous Liaisons (201?) – in production
  
• Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
• A Duel of Hearts (1991)
• Ekaterina S1-2 (2014)
• Empresses in the Palace / The Legend of Zhen Huan (2011)
• Emma (with Kate Beckinsale – 1996)
• Emma (with Romola Garai – 2009)
• Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005)
• Frontier S1-2 (2016-Present)
• Garrow’s Law (2009-2011)
• Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003)
• ITV’s/Hulu’s Harlots (2017)
• Die Hebamme / The Midwife (TV movie: 2014)
• Die Hebamme 2 (TV movie: 2016)
• The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005)
• Jack of All Trades (2000)
• Jamaica Inn (2014)
• Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour / Madame De Pompadour: The King’s Favourite (2006)
• John Adams (2008)
• ITV’s Hornblower (1998-2003)
  • The Even Chance / The Duel (Oct 1998)
  • The Examination for Lieutenant / The Fire Ships (Nov 1998)
  • The Duchess and the Devil (February 1999)
  • The Frogs and the Lobsters / The Wrong War (April 1999)
  • Mutiny (2001)
  • Retribution (2001)
  • Loyalty / Horatio Hornblower 3 (2003)
  • Duty (2003)

• Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
• Longitude (2000)
• ITV’s Lost in Austen (2008)
• Louis XVI, l’homme qui ne voulait pas être roi (2011)
• ITV’s Mansfield Park (2007)
• Marguerite Volant (1996)
• Marie-Antoinette (2006)
• BBC’s Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
• Napoleon (2002)
• Nicholas Le Floch (2008-2015)
• BBC’s Northanger Abbey (1986)
• ITV’s Northanger Abbey (2007) – * PREFERRED
• Outlander S1-4 (2014-Present)
• Pasión (2007)
• The Pathfinder (1996)
• BBC’s Persuasion (1995) – TV-film
• ITV’s Persuasion (2007)
• BBC’s Poldark (2015-Present)
• Pride & Prejudice (1995)
• Queen of Swords (2000-2001)
• A Respectable Trade (1998)
• History’s Roots (2016)
• The Scandalous Lady W (2015)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982: TV Movie)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999: TV Mini-Series)
• The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
• BBC’s Sense & Sensibility (2009)
• Sharpe (1993-2008)
• Sharpe’s Peril (2008 – movie)
• Sweeney Todd (2006)
• FX / BBC One’s Taboo 1-2 (2017-Present)
• Texas Rising (2015)
• To the Ends of the Earth (2005)
• Turn (2014)
• Velikaya (2015)
• War and Peace (2007)
• BBC’s War and Peace (2016)
• Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)
• ITV’s Wuthering Heights (2009)
• Young Catherine (TV movie: 1991)

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Victorian (1837-1901)

• 1864 (2014) 
  
• Acacias 38 (2015)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1994)
• CBC’s Alias Grace (2017)
• Amor real (2003)
• Rai’s Anna Karenina (2013)
• The Black Candle (1991)
• Bleak House (2005)
• Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (2011-2012)
• Bramwell (1995-1998)
• The Buccaneers (1995)
• Charite (2017)
• Charlotte (2017?)
• Hallmark’s A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
• Copper (2012)
• The Courage to Love (2000)
• Cranford (2007)
• The Crimson Petal and the White (Miniseries: 2011)
• The Crown Prince (2006)
• A Dangerous Fortune (2016)
• Daniel Deronda (2002)
• ITV’s Dark Angel (2016)
• BBC’s David Copperfield (1999)
• Deadwood (2004-2009)
• Degas and the Dancer (1998)
• Desperate Romantics (2009)
• BBC’s Dickensian (2015)
• A Dinner of Herbs (2000)
• ITV’s Doctor Thorne (2016)
• Dracula (2013)
• Edge (2015)
• Emily of New Moon (1998-2000)
• Fall of Eagles (1974)
• Far From the Madding Crowd (1998)
• Filinta (2014-2016)
• The Forsyte Saga (2002)
• ITV’s The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
• The Gilded Age (2019) – in development
• BBC’s The Go-Between (2015)
• Great Expectations (2011)
• He Knew He Was Right (2004)
• Hell on Wheels S1-5 (2011-16)
• CBBC’s Hetty Feather S1-2 (2015-Present)
• The Inheritance (1997)
• Jack the Ripper (2016)
• BBC’s Jane Eyre (2006)
• ITV’s Jericho (2016)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Nowell (2015)
• Klondike (2014)
• Lady Audley’s Secret (2000)
• Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001)
• Lillie (1978)
• BBC’s Little Dorrit (2008)
• BBC’s The Living and the Dead (2016)
• Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015)
• Longitude (2000)
• Love Begins (2011)
• Love’s Christmas Journey (2011)
• Love Comes Softly (2003)
• Madame Bovary (2000)
• Maison Close (2010-2013)
• The Making of a Lady (Miniseries: 2012)
• Mary Barton (201?) – in development
• Mercy Street S1-2 (2016-Present)
• Middlemarch (1994)
• The Mill (TV Mini-Series 2013)
• The Mill on the Floss (1997)
• The Moonstone (1997)
• Murdoch Mysteries (2004)
• CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries S1-6 (2008-2013)
• Mystery at the Moulin Rouge (2011)
• Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012)
• North & South (2004)
• An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)
• Oliver Twist (1999)
• Once Upon A Time in Wonderland (2013) – Victorian England / fantasy
• Our Mutual Friend (1998)
• BBC’s The Paradise S1-2 (2012-2013)
• Penny Dreadful (2014)
• The Pinkertons (2014)
• Queen (1993)
• The Rag Nymph (1997)
• Resurrection (2001)
• The Return to Cranford (2009)
• Ripper Street S1-5 (2012-Present)
• The Secret (2000)
• The Secret Agent (2016)
• The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton (2006)
• El secreto de Puente Viejo / The Old Bridge’s Secret (2011)
• Sherlock S3 New Year’s Special: The Abominable Bride (2016)
• Sisi (2009)
• The Son (2017)
• Sophie – Sissis Kleine Schwester (2001)
• CBC’s Strange Empire (2014)
  
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House (2011)
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane (2013)
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Beyond the Pale (2014)
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Ties That Bind (2014)
• Tchaikovsky: ‘The Creation of Genius’ (2007)
• BBC’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968)
• BBC’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1998)
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles (2008)
• Time after Time (2017)
• Tipping the Velvet (2002)
• BBC One’s To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters (2016)
• True Women (1997)
• The Turn of the Screw (1999)
• The Turn of the Screw (2009)
• Under the Greenwood Tree (2005)
• Underground S1-2 (2016-2017)
• ITV’s Victoria 1-2 (2016-Present)
• Victoria & Albert (2001)
• When Calls the Heart (TV movie: 2013)
• The Way We Live Now (Miniseries: 2001)
• The Windowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1992)
• Wives and Daughters (1999)
• The Woman in White (1997)
• BBC One’s The Woman in White (2017?)
• The Young Visiters (2003)

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Edwardian (1901-1910) / 1911-13

• Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
• Anne of Green Gables (1985)
• CBC’s Anne (2017: TV series)
• Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel / Anne of Avonlea (1987)
• ITV’s Arthur & George (2015)
• Casualty 1900s / London Hospital (2006-2009)
• Christy (1994-5)
• Coco Chanel (2008)
• Downton Abbey S1 (2010)
• Fall of Eagles (1974)
• BBC’s The Go-Between (2015)
• Gran Hotel (2011-13)
• Grand Hotel (2015)
• Hatfields and McCoy (2012)
• El Hotel de los Secretos (2016)
• Houdini (2014)
• ITV’s Houdini & Doyle (2016)
• Howards End (2017) 
• BBC’s An Inspector Calls (2015)
• The Knick S1-2 (2014-2016)
• Kurt Seyit ve Şura S1-2 (2014)
• BBC2’s Life in Squares (2015)
• L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (2016)
• The Lost Prince (2003)
• Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas (2011)
• Miss Friman’s War / Fröken Frimans kris S1-3 (2013-16)
• ITV’s Mr Selfridge S1 (2013)
• Murdoch Mysteries S7-11 (2013-Present)
• Road to Avonlea (1990-6)
• A Room with a View (2007)
• Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)
• Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
• Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End (1999)
• Saving the Titanic (2012)
• Seis Hermanas / Six Sisters (2015)
• Skylark (1993)
• The Tide of Life (1996)
• Titanic (1996)
• ITV’s Titanic (Miniseries: 2012)
• Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
• ITV’s Tutankhamun (2016)
• Up The Women (2013-2015)
• Wallis and Edward (2005)
• When Calls the Heart (2013 – TV movie)
• When Calls the Heart S1-4 (2014 – TV series)
• The Wingless Bird (1997)

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The Great War / WWI (1914-1918)

• 37 Days (6-8 March 2014)
• Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000)
• Anzac Girls (2014)
• A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
• Birdsong (2012)
• Ceux de 14 (2014-)
• The Cinder Path (1994)
• Colour Blind (1998)
• The Crimson Field (2014)
• Doctor Zhivago (2002)
• Downton Abbey S2 (2011)
• RTL’s Duell der Brüder: Die Geschichte von Adidas und Puma (2016)
• Fall of Eagles (1974)
• Harriet’s Army (2014)
• ITV’s Mr Selfridge S2 (2013-2014)
• Parade’s End (Miniseries: 2012)
• Rebellion (2016)
• Sarajevo (2014)
• The Village S1 (2013)
• When Love Is Not Enough – The Lois Wilson Story (2010)
• The Wingless Bird (1997)
• The Wipers Times (2013)

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1919 / Roaring 20’s – Great Depression / 1930’s

• Agatha Christie’s Marple (2004-2013)
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2013)
• Amar en tiempos revueltos (2005)
• BBC’s Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (2015)
• Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
• The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
• Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
• Blandings S1-2 (2013-2014)
• Boardwalk Empire (2010-Present)
• Bonnie and Clyde: Dead and Alive (2013)
• Las Chicas del Cable S1-2 / Cable Girls (2017-2018)
• BBC1’s Cider with Rosie (2015)
• Coco Chanel (2008)
• Dancing on the Edge (2013)
• Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
• BBC’s Decline and Fall (2017)
• Downton Abbey S3-6 (2012-2015)
• ITV’s The Durrells (2016)
• Falling For A Dancer (1998)
• The Forsyte Saga: To Let (2003)
• Genius (2017)
• ITV’s Harry Price: Ghost Hunter (2015)
• Indian Summers S1-2 (2015)
• ITV’s Jekyll & Hyde (2015)
• The Josephine Baker Story (2001 TV movie)
• Lady Chatterley (1993)
• BBC’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2015)
• The Lady Vanishes (2013)
• Amazon’s The Last Tycoon (2016)
• Lilies (2007)
• Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
• The Man Who Crossed Hitler (2011)
• Mapp and Lucia (2014)
• Mildred Pierce (2011)
• Million Dollar Babies (1994)
• Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries S1-3 (2012-Present)
• ITV’s Mr Selfridge S3-4 (2015-2016)
• Our Zoo (2014)
• Peaky Blinders S1-5 (2013-Present)
• Promise the Moon (1997)
• La Señora (2008-2010)
• South Riding (2011)
• The Sting (1973)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
• Time in Between / El tiempo entre costuras (2013-14)
• ITV’s Tutankhamun (2016)
• Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005)
• Upstairs, Downstairs S1 (2010)
• The Village S2 (2014)
• When Love Is Not Enough – The Lois Wilson Story (2010)
• Wind at My Back (1996-2001)
• BBC’s The Witness for the Prosecution (2016)
• Young James Herriot (2011)
• Amazon’s Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015 – TV movie)

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WWII (1939-1945)

• 24 Turns / 二十四道拐 (2015)
• Agent Carter (2015)
• Amar en tiempos revueltos (2005)
• Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
• Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
• The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
• Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
• Bomb Girls (2012-2013)
• Bomb Girls – Facing The Enemy (2014)
• The Cazalets (2001)
• BBC2’s Close to the Enemy (2016)
• Colditz (2005) – haven’t seen
• Conspiracy (2001 – TV movie)
• The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
• The Devil’s Arithmetic (1999)
• BBC’s The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
• Dresden
• BBC’s The Dresser (2015)
• Fleming (2014)
• Foyle’s War S1-7 (2002-2010)
• Generation War (2014)
• Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998)
• Gracie! (2009 – movie) – haven’t seen
• ITV’s The Halcyon (2017)
• Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003 – miniseries)
• ITV’s Home Fires S1-2 (2015)
• Housewife, 49 (2006)
• Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
• ITV’s Island at War (2004)
• La llum d’Elna (2017)
• Land Girls (2009)
• Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
• ARD’s Luis Trenker – Der Schmale Grat Der Wahrheit / Trenker and Riefenstahl – A Fine Line Between Truth And Guilt (2015)
• The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
• Manhattan (2014-15)
• March of Millions / Die Fluege (2007)
• Murder on the Home Front (2013)
• BBC One’s My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)
• Our World War (2014)
• Outlander S1 (2014)
• The Pacific (2010)
• The Passing Bells (2014)
• Restless (2012)
• BBC’s SS-GB (2017)
• The Secret of Crickley Hall (2013)
• Silent Night (2002)
• Sisters of War (2010)
• Small Island (2009)
• Spies of Warsaw (2013)
• Upstairs, Downstairs S2 (2012)
• Un village français (2009-Present)
• CBC’s X Company S1-3 (2015-17)

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Post War (1946-60’s)

• Fox’s 11.22.63 (2016)
• BBC Two’s Against the Law (2017)
• The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)
• Bert and Dickie (2012)
• Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
• The Best of Men (2012)
• The Bletchley Circle (2012-2014)
• Breathless (2013)
• Burton & Taylor (2013)
• Call the Midwife S1-6 (2012-Present)
• ITV’s Churchill’s Secret (2016)
• Cilla (2014)
• BBC’s Close to the Enemy (2016)
• Amazon’s The Collection (2016)
• Cradle to Grave (2015)
• Crimes of Passion (Swedish: 2013)
• Netflix’s The Crown S1 – 3 (2016-Present)
• Daphne (2007)
• Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
• The Doctor Blake Mysteries S1-4 (2013-Present)
• The Eichmann Show (2015)
• Endeavour (2012 – TV movie)
• Endeavour S1-5 (2013 – TV series)
• Father Brown (2013)
• FX’s Feud S1 (2017)
• Foyle’s War S8-9 (2013-2015)
• The Girl (2012 – TV movie)
• Grand Hotel (2016)
• Grantchester S1-4 (2014-Present)
• The Great Train Robbery (2013)
• The Hour (2011)
• ITV’s In Plain Sight (2016)
• Inspector George Gently (2007)
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
• BBC’s Just William (2010)
• Killing Kennedy (2013)
• Krupp – Eine deutsche Familie (2009)
• ZDF’s Ku’damm 56 (2016)
• Liz & Dick (2012 – movie)
• ITV’s Lucan (2013)
• ARD’s Luis Trenker – Der Schmale Grat Der Wahrheit / Trenker and Riefenstahl – A Fine Line Between Truth And Guilt (2015)
• Mad Men (2007)
• ITV’s Maigret Sets A Trap (2016)
• ITV’s Maigret’s Dead Man (2016)
• ITV’s Maigret: Night at the Crossroads (2017)
• ITV’s Maigret in Montmartre (2017)
• The Man in the High Castle S1-2+ (2015-Present)
• Margot (2009)
• Masters of Sex S1-4 (2013-16)
• Mrs Biggs (2012)
• The Night Watch (2011 – movie)
• BBC1’s The Outcast (2015)
• Outlander S2 (2016)
• BBC1’s Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime (2015)
• A Place to Call Home 1-5 (2013-Present)
• Public Morals (2015)
• Quirke (2014)
• BBC One’s Rillington Place (2016)
• The Royal (2003-11)
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)
• Serangoon Road (2013)
• ITV’s Tina and Bobby (2017)
• United (2011)
• Velvet S1-4 (2014)
• A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
• We’ll Take Manhattan (2012)
• WPC 56 S1-3 (2013)