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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
