Period Dramas: TV Series | The Lady & the Rose

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)