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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is a 2025 four-part ITV drama adapted by Kelly Jones from Carol Ann Lee's biography, starring Lucy Boynton as Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain (1955).
A Place to Call Home (TV series)
A Place to Call Home: Australian period drama created by Bevan Lee, 67 episodes, 2013-2018, set in 1950s rural NSW; Marta Dusseldorp leads; aired on Seven then Foxtel's SoHo; 2017 Logie winner.
A Thousand Blows
A Thousand Blows is a Steven Knight historical drama on Hulu and Disney+ about bare-knuckle boxing in 1880s London's East End, following Jamaican immigrant Hezekiah Moscow, the Forty Elephants gang leader Mary Carr, and boxer Sugar Goodson; season 1 premiered February 21, 2025, season 2 on January 9, 2026.
A Very Royal Scandal
A Very Royal Scandal is a 2024 three-part Prime Video drama starring Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson, adapting Emily Maitlis's Airhead account of her 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew over the Epstein allegations, following Netflix's Scoop.
Amadeus (TV series)
Amadeus (2025/2026) is a five-part Sky/Starz miniseries by Joe Barton starring Will Sharpe as Mozart, Paul Bettany as Salieri, and Gabrielle Creevy as Constanze, adapted from Shaffer's 1979 play.
American Primeval
American Primeval is a six-episode Netflix Western limited series (premiered January 9, 2025) written by Mark L. Smith, directed by Peter Berg, starring Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin, dramatizing the 1857 Utah War and Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Kaiser Karl) is a 2024 French Disney+ six-episode biographical drama starring Daniel Brühl as Karl Lagerfeld in 1972, covering his rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent and love for Jacques de Bascher, adapted from Raphaëlle Bacqué's biography.
Bloodaxe (TV series)
Bloodaxe is a Prime Video historical drama premiering January 20, 2027, created by Michael and Horatio Hirst of Vikings, starring Xavier Molyneux as Erik Bloodaxe and Jessica Madsen as Gunnhild, renewed for Season 2 before Season 1 airs.
Bloom (TV series)
Bloom (TV series) most commonly denotes the Australian supernatural drama created by Glen Dolman for Stan (2019, 2020): a youth-restoring plant appears after a flood, starring Jacki Weaver, Bryan Brown, and Phoebe Tonkin.
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms is a three-part BBC One prequel (Christmas 2026) set in Poplar in September 1939, showing younger Sisters Julienne, Evangelina, and Monica Joan midwifing through wartime, narrated by Jenny Agutter.
Carême (TV series)
Carême is a French-language Apple TV+ biographical drama (2025) about chef Antonin Carême, the "first celebrity chef," turned spy for Talleyrand in Napoleonic France. Created by Ian Kelly and Davide Serino, starring Benjamin Voisin; renewed for a second season in 2026.
Chief of War
Chief of War is a 2025 Apple TV+ nine-episode historical drama created by Jason Momoa and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett about the unification of Hawai'i, starring Momoa as Ka'iana, largely in the Hawaiian language, with a predominantly Polynesian cast; no second season has been announced.
Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek)
Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek) is a 2023 five-episode Netflix Indonesian period drama, the platform's first Indonesian series, adapted from Ratih Kumala's 2012 novel, directed by Kamila Andini and Ifa Isfansyah, set in the 1960s kretek industry, and winner of Best Miniseries at the 2024 Seoul International Drama Awards.
Dark Hearts
Dark Hearts (Cœurs noirs) is a French action-war series created by Duong Dang-Thaï and Corinne Garfin about a special forces commando in 2016 Iraq; two seasons on Prime Video and France 2, distinct from other works of the same name.
Dead Still
Dead Still (2020) is an Irish-Canadian six-part dark comedy-drama set in 1880s Dublin, following memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley), created by John Morton for RTÉ and Acorn TV; distinct from the 2014 horror film of the same name.
Death by Lightning
Death by Lightning is a 2025 Netflix four-part historical drama, created by Mike Makowsky and directed by Matt Ross, based on Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic, starring Michael Shannon as President James A. Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as his assassin Charles Guiteau.
Estonia (2023 TV series)
Estonia (2023) is an eight-part Finnish-led drama series, created by Miikko Oikkonen and directed by Måns Månsson and Juuso Syrjä, dramatizing the 1994 MS Estonia ferry sinking, the JAIC investigation, and the absence of accountability; Finland's costliest TV series at €15.3 million.
Franklin
Franklin (2024) is an eight-episode Apple TV+ historical miniseries starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin on his 1776–1783 French diplomatic mission, based on Stacy Schiff's A Great Improvisation, directed by Tim Van Patten, with mixed reviews (Metacritic 57, Rotten Tomatoes 71%).
Frontier (2016 TV series)
Frontier is a Canadian-American historical drama series starring Jason Momoa as outlaw trapper Declan Harp, who campaigns to break the Hudson's Bay Company's fur-trade monopoly in 1700s Canada.
GLOW (TV series)
GLOW is a Netflix comedy-drama (2017–2019, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron, inspired by the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling; cancelled after a reversed season 4 renewal.
Goolagong (miniseries)
Goolagong is a three-part ABC drama miniseries about tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley, made by Werner Film Productions (BBC Studios), directed by Wayne Blair, starring Lila McGuire, premiered 4 January 2026 on ABC TV and iview.
Halston (miniseries)
Halston is a five-episode Netflix limited series (premiered May 14, 2021) starring Ewan McGregor as designer Roy Halston Frowick, directed by Daniel Minahan, executive produced by Ryan Murphy, based on Steven Gaines's Simply Halston.
Heweliusz
Heweliusz (2025) is a five-episode Polish Netflix miniseries directed by Jan Holoubek, written by Kasper Bajon, inspired by the 1993 sinking of the ferry Jan Heweliusz, which killed 56 people; premiered 5 November 2025.
High Water
High Water (Wielka woda) is a 2022 Polish six-episode Netflix limited drama directed by Jan Holoubek and Bartłomiej Ignaciuk, dramatizing the July 1997 Millennium Flood threatening Wrocław, starring Agnieszka Żulewska, Tomasz Schuchardt, and Ireneusz Czop.
Homefront (American TV series)
Homefront is an American drama series created by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick, broadcast on ABC from 1991 to 1993. It is set in fictional River Run, Ohio, after World War II.
Houdini (miniseries)
Houdini (2014) is a two-part History channel miniseries, also called the Houdini miniseries, starring Adrien Brody as the escape artist, directed by Uli Edel, written by Nicholas Meyer, aired September 1-2, 2014, with mixed reviews and one Emmy win.
House of Guinness
House of Guinness is a 2025 Netflix historical drama by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, following Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Benjamin Guinness after patriarch Sir Benjamin's 1868 death; renewed for a second season.
I'm Dying Up Here
I'm Dying Up Here is a Showtime drama (2017-2018, two seasons) set in 1973 Los Angeles stand-up comedy, executive produced by Jim Carrey and adapted from William Knoedelseder's 2009 book; Melissa Leo stars as club owner Goldie, inspired by Mitzi Shore's Comedy Store.
Jubilee (TV series)
Jubilee is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language period drama streaming series on Amazon Prime Video, co-created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Soumik Sen and set in Bombay's film industry around independence.
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again is a 1989 CBS two-part, five-hour miniseries adapted from Krantz's 1988 novel, directed by Charles Jarrott, starring Mia Sara, Courteney Cox, Michael York, Lucy Gutteridge, and Hugh Grant, following the de Lancel family from 1913 to 1956.