As we come to the end of this decade, let us look back at some of the best period dramas from 2010-2019! *Please note this list is based on films I’ve seen. I know I missed many must-see period dramas this decade!*

2010

• ITV’s Downton Abbey S1 – 6 (TV Series: 2010-2015)
• Goethe! (Movie)
• The King’s Speech (Movie)
• CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries S3-13 (TV Series: 2008-Present)
• The Movie Network’s The Pillars of the Earth (TV Series: 2010-11)
• Showtime’s The Tudors S4 (TV Series: 2007-2010)
• BBC’s Upstairs Downstairs S1 – 2 (TV Miniseries: 2010-2011)
• Sarah’s Key (Movie)

2011

• The Artist (Movie)
• Showtime’s The Borgias S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2011-2013)
• Der Ganz Grosse Traum (Movie)
• Antena 3’s Gran Hotel S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2011-2013)
• BBC’s Great Expectations (TV Miniseries)
• The Help (Movie)
• BBC’s The Hour S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2011-2012)
• Hugo (Movie)
• Jane Eyre (Movie)
• Showcase’s A Place to Call Home S1 – 6 (TV Series: 2013-2018)
• War Horse (Movie)

2012

• Anna Karenina (Movie)
• BBC’s Birdsong (TV Miniseries)
• ITV’s The Bletchley Circle S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2012-2014)
• Global’s Bomb Girls S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2012-2013)
• BBC’s Call the Midwife S1 – 8 (TV Series: 2012-Present)
• Great Expectations (Movie)
• BBC’s The Hollow Crown S1 – 2 (TV Miniseries: 2012-2016)
• ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries S1 – 3 (2012-2015)
• BBC’s The Paradise S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2012-2013)
• BBC’s Ripper Street S1 – 5 (TV Series: 2012-2016)
• A Royal Affair (Movie)
• History’s Titanic: Blood and Steel (TV Series)
• World Without End (TV Series)

2013

• Belle (Movie)
• The Book Thief (Movie)
• Devil’s Violinist (Movie)
• NBC’s Dracula (TV Series)
• ITV’s Endeavour S1 – 6+ (TV Series: 2013-Present)
• The Great Gatsby (Movie)
• BBC’s The Lady Vanishes (TV Movie)
• ITV’s Mr Selfridge S1 – 4 (TV Series: 2013-2016)
• BBC’s Peaky Blinders S1 – 5+ (TV Series: 2013-Present)
• Romeo & Juliet (Movie)
• Hallmark’s When Calls The Heart (TV Movie)
• BBC’s The White Queen (TV Series)

2014

• Global’s Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (TV Movie)
• The Imitation Game (Movie)
• Star TV’s Kurt Seyit ve Sura S1 – 2 (TV Series)
• Netflix’s Marco Polo S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2014-2016)
• BBC’s The Musketeers S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2014-2016)
• Starz’s Outlander S1 – 4+ (TV Series: 2014-Present)
• Suite Française (Movie)
• Testament of Youth (Movie)
• Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart S1 – 6+ (TV Series: 2014-Present)

2015

• BBC’s And Then There Were None (TV Miniseries)
• Brooklyn (Movie)
• The Danish Girl (Movie)
• BBC’s Dickensian (TV Series: 2015-2016)
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Movie)
• CBBC’s Hetty Feather S1 – 5+ (TV Series: 2015-Present)
• ITV’s Home Fires S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2015-2016)
• In the Heart of the Sea (Movie)
• BBC’s Poldark S1 – 5 (TV Series: 2015-2019)
• A Royal Night Out (Movie)
• BBC’s The Scandalous Lady W (TV Movie)
• Suffragette (Movie)
• Canal+’s Versailles S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2015-2017)
• BBC’s Wolf Hall S1+ (TV Series)
• CBC’s X Company S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2015-2017)
• Amazon’s Z: The Beginning of Everything (TV Series: 2015-2017)

2016

• Allied (Movie)
• YTV’s Anne of Green Gables (TV Movie)
• ITV’s Churchill’s Secret (TV movie)
• Amazon’s The Collection (TV Series)
• Netflix’s The Crown S1 – 4+ (TV Series: 2016-Present)
• ITV’s Dark Angel (TV Miniseries)
• ITV’s Doctor Thorne (TV Miniseries)
• ITV’s The Durrells S1 – 4 (TV Series: 2016-2019)
• Discovery Channel’s Frontier S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2016-2018)
• Hidden Figures (Movie)
• Limehouse Golem (Movie)
• Rai 1’s Medici: Masters of Florence S1 – 3 (2016-2019)
• BBC’s My Mother and Other Strangers (TV Series)
• Race (Movie)
• History’s Roots (TV Miniseries)
• BBC’s Sherlock Holmes S3E4: The Abominable Bride (TV Episode)
• Their Finest (Movie)
• NBC’s Timeless S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2016-2018)
• A United Kingdom (Movie)
• ITV’s Victoria S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2016-2019)
• BBC’s War and Peace (TV Series)
• BBC’s The Witness for the Prosecution (TV Miniseries)

2017

• CBC’s Alias Grace (TV Series)
• CBC’s Anne with an E S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2017-2019)
• Sky 1’s Babylon Berlin S1 – 2+ (TV Series: 2017-Present)
• Channel 5’s Crooked House (TV Movie)
• Dunkirk (Movie)
• Goodbye Christopher Robin (Movie)
• The Greatest Showman (Movie)
• Hulu’s Harlots S1 – 3 (TV Series: 2017-2019)
• History’s Knightfall S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2017-2019)
• Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel S1 – 3+ (TV Series: 2017-Present)
• Matilda (Movie)
• BBC’s The Miniaturist (TV Miniseries)
• Murder on the Orient Express (Movie)
• Shape of Water (Movie)
• BBC’s SS-GB (TV Series)
• Starz’s Still Star-Crossed (TV Series)
• BBC’s Taboo S1+ (TV Series: 2017-Present)
• Tulip Fever (Movie)
• Antena 3’s Velvet Colección S1 – 2 (TV Series: 2017-2019)
• Victoria & Abdul (Movie)
• Starz’s The White Princess (TV Series)
• The Zookeeper’s Wife (Movie)

2018

• Channel 5’s Agatha and the Truth of Murder (TV Movie)
• TNT’s The Alienist (TV Series)
• Antena 3’s La Catedral del Mar (TV Series)
• Christopher Robin (Movie)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Movie)
• Indian Horse (Movie)
• Mary Poppins Returns (Movie)
• BBC’s Mrs Wilson (TV Miniseries)
• BBC’s Ordeal by Innocence (TV Miniseries)
• The Resistance Banker (Movie)

2019

• The Aftermath (Movie)
• Netflix’s Alta Mar S1 – 2+ (TV Series: 2019-Present)
• PBS’s The Chaperone (TV Movie)
• Downton Abbey (Movie)
• BBC’s Gentleman Jack S1+ (TV Series: 2019-Present)
• Harriet (Movie)
• Netflix’s The Highwaymen (TV Movie)
• History’s Project Blue Book S1+ (TV Series: 2019-Present)
• The Song of Names (Movie)
• Storm Boy (Movie)
• Tolkien (Movie)
• Channel 4’s Traitors (TV Series)

How many of [these] films have you seen? Which were your favourite period dramas from 2010-2019?