Merry Christmas!

Looking for some Christmas period dramas to watch? Here is an updated list of some of the Christmas Specials and movies from the last two decades!

• Hallmark’s An Old Fashioned Christmas (2010) – Victorian
• BBC One’s Call the Midwife
  • S2E0: Christmas Special (2012) – 1957
  • S3E0: Christmas Special (2013) – 1958
  • S4E0: Christmas Special (2014) – 1959
  • S5E0: Christmas Special (2015) – 1960
  • S6E0: Christmas Special (2016) – 1961
  • S7E0: Christmas Special (2017) – 1962
  • S8E0: Christmas Special (2018) – 1963
  • S9E0: Christmas Special (2019) – 1964
  • S10E0: Christmas Special (2020) – 1965
• The Christmas Candle (2013) – Victorian
• BBC One’s A Christmas Carol (2019 – TV Miniseries) – Victorian
• A Christmas Carol (2020) – Victorian
• A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004) – Victorian
• Hallmark’s A Timeless Christmas (2020) – 1903 / 21st Century
• ITV’s Downton Abbey
  • S2E9: Christmas at Downton Abbey (2011) – 1919-1920
  • S5E9: A Moorland Holiday (2014) – 1924
  • S6E9: Christmas Special (2015) – 1925-1926
• Netflix’s Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) – Victorian
• Joyeux Noel (2005) – 1914
• Netflix’s The Knight Before Christmas (2019) – Medieval / 21st Century
• Hallmark’s Love’s Christmas Journey (2011) – Victorian
• The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) – Victorian
• Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas (2011) – Edwardian
• CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries
  • S9E0: A Merry Murdoch Christmas (2015) – Edwardian
  • S10E0: Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas (2016) – Edwardian
  • S11E0: Home for the Holidays (2017) – Edwardian
• Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) – Victorian
• The WB’s An American Girl Story
• Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004) – Edwardian
• Maryellen 1955 – Extraordinary Christmas (2016) – 1955
• Hallmark’s Silent Night (2002) – 1944
• BBC Two’s Upstart Crow
  • S2E7: A Christmas Crow (2017) – Elizabethan
  • S3E7: A Crow Christmas Carol (2018) – Elizabethan
  • S4E1: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: A Lockdown Christmas 1603 (2020) – Jacobean
• ITV’s Victoria S2E9: Comfort and Joy (2017) – Victorian
• Hallmark’s When Calls The Heart
  • S4E1: A When Calls the Heart Christmas (2016)
  • S5E0: The Christmas Wishing Tree (2017)
  • S6E0: The Greatest Christmas Blessing (2018)
  • S7E0: Home for Christmas (2019)

For films on the Nativity:

• Chasing the Star (2017)
• The Nativity Story (2006)

I’m sure I’ve missed quite a few but hopefully this list will do for now. Be safe and may you remain in good health!