List of World War II television series
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Below is an incomplete list of fictional television series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
1950s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1958 | United States | Navy Log | ||
| 1956 | 1957 | United States | Combat Sergeant | Drama-action. North African campaign US Army espionage group | |
| 1957 | 1957 | United Kingdom | Escape | Drama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes | |
| 1957 | 1958 | United Kingdom | O.S.S. | OSS in occupied France | |
| 1957 | 1958 | United States | The Silent Service | Drama. USN submarine service |
1960s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1960 | East Germany | Toter Winkel Blind Spot (TV) | Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp, guards guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation period after war during 1945 directed by Wolfgang Luderer | |
| 1961 | 1963 | United States | Alcoa Premiere "Seven Against the Sea" (1962 episode) |
Drama. US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for comedy McHale's Navy | |
| 1962 | 1963 | United States | The Gallant Men | Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign | |
| 1962 | 1966 | United States | McHale's Navy | Comedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign | |
| 1962 | 1967 | United States | Combat! | Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France | |
| 1963 | 1963 | United Kingdom | Moonstrike
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The series was an anthology programme: a collection of self-contained stories about acts of resistance in occupied Europe during the Second World War. | |
| 1964 | 1965 | United States | Broadside | Comedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy | |
| 1964 | 1967 | United States | Gilligan's Island "So Sorry, My Island Now" (1965 episode) |
Comedy. Island is captured by Japanese sailor | |
| "Mine Hero" (1965 episode) | Comedy. Wartime sea mine in lagoon | ||||
| "Forward March" (1966 episode) | Comedy. Gorilla armed with wartime grenades | ||||
| 1964 | 1967 | United States | Twelve O'Clock High | Drama. Missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base and equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1965 | 1965 | United States | Convoy | Drama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter | |
| 1965 | 1965 | Poland | The Underground Front | Podziemny front | Polish resistance, 1941–45 |
| 1965 | 1966 | United States | Mister Roberts | Comedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts | |
| 1965 | 1966 | United States | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Comedy. Spy scow/schooner based in the South Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film The Wackiest Ship in the Army | |
| 1965 | 1971 | United States | Hogan's Heroes | Comedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag | |
| 1966 | 1966 | United States | Blue Light | Drama. | |
| 1966 | 1966 | United Kingdom | Court Martial | Drama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war | |
| 1966 | 1967 | United States | Jericho | Drama. Espionage | |
| 1966 | 1968 | United States | The Rat Patrol | Long Range Desert Patrol | |
| 1966 | 1970 | Poland | Four Tank Men and a Dog | Czterej pancerni i pies | Tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–45 |
| 1967 | 1968 | United States | Garrison's Gorillas | Adventure-drama. Allied convicts recruited as commandos behind Nazi lines with offer of a post-war parole and inspired by The Dirty Dozen film; 26 episodes | |
| 1967 | 1968 | Poland | More Than Life at Stake | Stawka większa niż życie | Kapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–45 |
| 1968 | 1977 | United Kingdom | Dad's Army | Comedy. English Home Guard | |
| 1969 | 1969 | United Kingdom | Manhunt |
1970s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1970 | East Germany | Jeder stirbt für sich allein | ||
| 1970 | 1972 | United Kingdom | A Family at War | ||
| 1971 | 1973 | Australia | Spyforce | Action/drama. Australian series about the fictional Special Intelligence Unit (based on the real Services Reconnaissance Department) | |
| 1971 | 1971 | East Germany | Rottenknechte | ||
| 1971 | 1974 | Greece | Unknown Warfare | O Agnostos Polemos | Drama. The adventures of a colonel of the counter-espionage service of Greece during the war. (226 episodes; remade in 1987) |
| 1972 | 1973 | United Kingdom | Pathfinders | RAF pathfinding missions | |
| 1972 | 1974 | United Kingdom | Colditz | Colditz Castle POW camp | |
| 1973 | 1973 | Soviet Union | Seventeen Moments of Spring | Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (Семнадцать мгновений весны) | Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany |
| 1973 | 1974 | United States | Roll Out | Comedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France | |
| 1974 | 1974 | Czechoslovakia | Once upon a time there was a house | Byl jednou jeden dům | The fate of the inhabitants of a house before and during WWII. |
| 1974 | 1974 | Yugoslavia | Otpisani | ||
| 1974 | 1975 | Canada | Witness to Yesterday | Drama (talk show format).[1] Broadcaster Patrick Watson aggressively "interviews" historical figures, including Norman Bethune († 1939) | |
| 1974 | 1981 | United Kingdom | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | Comedy. | |
| 1975 | 1977 | United States |
Wonder Woman | Action/Drama/Sci-fi. Fictional stories of Wonder Woman battling Nazis. | |
| 1975 | 1975 | Poland Hungary |
Third Border | Trzecia granica (in Polish) | Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary |
| 1975 | 1975 | Yugoslavia | The Farm in the Small Marsh | ||
| 1976 | 1976 | Iran | My Uncle Napoleon | داییجان ناپلئون | Comedy. Tehran under Allied occupation |
| 1976 | 1978 | United States | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War | |
| 1976 | 1983 | Australia | The Sullivans | Drama. The effects World War II has on the lives of an average middle-class Melbourne family | |
| 1977 | 1978 | United Kingdom | Backs to the Land | Comedy. Land Girls | |
| 1977 | 1979 | United States | Operation Petticoat (Life in the Pink) | Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat | |
| 1977 | 1979 | United Kingdom Belgium |
Secret Army | Drama. Belgian Resistance; followed by 1981 series Kessler | |
| 1978 | 1981 | Denmark | Matador | Matador | Fictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947 |
| 1978 | 1978 | United States | Pearl | ||
| 1978 | 1978 | Yugoslavia | Povratak otpisanih | ||
| 1978 | 1978 | United States | Holocaust | ||
| 1979 | 1979 | United Kingdom | Danger UXB | British/PBS Drama centering on a Royal Engineers high explosives disposal unit operating in London defusing un-exploded bombs during the Blitz. | |
| 1979 | 1979 | United States | Ike |
1980s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1980 | United States | Goodtime Girls | Comedy. Women's war effort on the homefront (Washington, D.C.) | |
| 1980 | 1980 | East Germany | Archiv des Todes | ||
| 1981 | 1981 | United Kingdom | Kessler | Drama. Former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 series Secret Army | |
| 1981 | 1981 | United Kingdom | Private Schulz | ||
| 1981 | 1984 | United Kingdom Australia |
Tenko | Women interned after the Battle of Singapore | |
| 1981 | 1981 | Australia | A Town Like Alice | ||
| 1982 | 1992 | United Kingdom | 'Allo 'Allo! | Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–1944 | |
| 1982 | 1992 | United Kingdom | We'll Meet Again | ||
| 1983 | 1983 | United States | Casablanca | Based on film Casablanca | |
| 1983 | 1983 | United States | The Winds of War | Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families | |
| 1983 | 1983 | United Kingdom | The Fourth Arm | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | Australia | The Last Bastion | Mini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II | |
| 1984 | 1984 | Ireland | Caught in a Free State | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | East Germany | Front ohne Gnade | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | United Kingdom | The Jewel in the Crown | The last days of the British Raj during and after WWII in India. Based on the four novels by Paul Scott known collectively as "The Raj Quartet." | |
| 1985 | 1985 | Australia | The Cowra Breakout | Semi-fictional mini-series about the Cowra breakout, August 1944 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | Italy | Mussolini: The Untold Story | ||
| 1985 | 1985 | Sweden | Rød snø | ||
| 1985 | 1985 | Australia | The Dunera Boys | Mini-series based on the Dunera incident, 1940-1941 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | United States | Jenny's War | Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | Czechoslovakia | Vlak dětsví a naděje | The Train of Childhood and Expectation | The story of a family from the Czechoslovak borderlands in the pre-war period and during the Second World War. |
| 1987 | 1987 | United Kingdom | The Diary of Anne Frank | ||
| 1987 | 1987 | United Kingdom | Fortunes of War | ||
| 1987 | 1987 | Australia | Nancy Wake | Drama. Mini-series about the exploits of New Zealand born SOE Operative and French Resistance member Nancy Wake | |
| 1988 | 1988 | United States Yugoslavia |
Dirty Dozen: The Series | [2] | Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen |
| 1988 | 1988 | United Kingdom | Piece of Cake | RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain | |
| 1988 | 1989 | United States | War and Remembrance | Continues the story of The Winds of War starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 7 August 1945 | |
| 1988 | 1991 | Poland | The Burning Border | Pogranicze w ogniu | Action-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918 to 1939 |
| 1988 | 1990 | United Kingdom | Wish Me Luck | Drama-espionage. SOE women in German-occupied France | |
| 1989 | 1989 | Australia | Tanamera – Lion of Singapore | Drama based on novel. | |
| 1989 | 1989 | Australia United Kingdom |
The Heroes | Mini-series about the Allied commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick |
1990s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1991 | United Kingdom Australia |
Heroes II: The Return | Sequel to The Heroes about a second commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Rimau | |
| 1992 | 1992 | Denmark | Blackout | Mørklægning | Thriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and ill |
| 1993 | 1993 | United Kingdom | Demob | Comedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers | |
| 1994 | 1994 | United Kingdom | Seaforth | Drama. British homefront conman | |
| 1994 | 1994 | United Kingdom | Which Way to the War | Comedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only | |
| 1996 | 1996 | United Kingdom | Over Here | ||
| 1997 | 1997 | Singapore | The Price of Peace | Hépíng de dàijià (和平的代價) | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 1998 | 1998 | United Kingdom | Coming Home (TV serial) | Drama. Wartime experiences of Judith, a schoolgirl and young woman. | |
| 1998 | 1998 | Czech Republic | Three Kings | Tři králové | Drama. Resistance efforts in German occupation of Czechoslovakia; seven episodes |
| 1999 | 1999 | Germany | Riding the Storm | Sturmzeit | |
| 1999 | 1999 | Germany | Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland | Drama based on Charlotte Link trilogy. East Prussian home front through both World Wars[3] |
2000s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2000 | United Kingdom | Monsignor Renard | ||
| 2001 | 2001 | United States | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | ||
| 2001 | 2001 | United States | Band of Brothers | Action-drama. Non-fictional account of "Easy" Company (506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division) from training to war's end, based on Stephen E. Ambrose book | |
| 2001 | 2001 | Australia | Changi | Changi POW camp | |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore | In Pursuit of Peace | Hérì Jūn Zàilái (何日军再来) | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore | A War Diary | Zhànzhēng rìjì (战争日记) | Romance/Drama. Chinese family during Battle of Singapore and Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | United Kingdom | The Cazalets | ||
| 2001 | 2002 | United Kingdom | The 1940s House | ||
| 2002 | 2015 | United Kingdom | Foyle's War | Mystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England | |
| 2003 | 2003 | United Kingdom | P.O.W. | Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940 | |
| 2004 | 2004 | United Kingdom | Island at War | ||
| 2004 | 2004 | Russia | The Cadets | ||
| 2005 | 2005 | United Kingdom | Colditz | ||
| 2005 | 2005 | United Kingdom | Churchill's Bodyguard | ||
| 2005 | 2006 | China | Liang Jian | Liang Jian (亮剑) | Campaigns of 18th Army Group and Chinese People's Liberation Army from Sino-Japanese War to Chinese Civil War |
| 2006 | 2006 | Canada | Above and Beyond | ||
| 2007 | 2007 | Poland | Fortress of Codes | Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów | Thriller. Polish and German espionage, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Denmark | Nazitübbies | Nazitübbies | Parody. Nazi Teletubbies |
| 2007 | 2007 | Hong Kong | War and Destiny | Leun sai gai yan (亂世佳人) (in Yue Chinese) | Nanjing Massacre |
| 2007 | 2007 | Iran Hungary France Lebanon |
Zero Degree Turn | Madār-e sefr darajeh (مدار صفر درجه) (in Persian) | Drama based on Abdol Hossein Sardari. Iranian student in occupied Paris in love with French-Jewish woman |
| 2008 | 2008 | Russia | Apostle | Apostol (Апостол) | Life and treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent |
| 2008 | 2008 | Germany | A Woman in Berlin | 2 episodes | covers the period between 20 April and 22 June 1945 in Berlin during the capture and occupation of the city by the Red Army |
| 2008 | 2008 | Estonia | Windward Land | Tuulepealne maa | History of Estonia through two families, World War I to 1941 |
| 2008 | 2008 | Germany | Wilhelm Gustloff | Die Gustloff | Greatest Disaster of German transport ship wreck by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945. |
| 2008 | 2011 | Poland | Time of Honor | Czas honoru | Cichociemni (SOE agents) and Polish Resistance |
| 2009 | 2009 | Russia | Zastava Zhilina[4] | Zastava Zhilina (Застава Жилина) | Romance drama. Set in 1941 |
| 2009 | now | France | A French Village | Un village français | Occupied French village, from May 1940 –... (one month per episode) |
| 2009 | 2011 | United Kingdom | Land Girls | Drama. Land Girls | |
| 2009 | 2009 | United Kingdom | The Diary of Anne Frank | ||
| 2009 | ? | China | My Brother Named Shun Liu | Wǒde Xiōngdì Jiào Shùn Liū (我的兄弟叫顺溜) | Chinese sniper during the Sino-Japanese War |
| 2009 | now | China | My Chief and My Regiment | Wǒde Tuánzhǎng Wǒde Tuán (我的团长我的团) | Drama. Chinese National Revolutionary Army Expeditionary Force in Burma battling Imperial Japanese Army during Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in Sino-Japanese War, 1942 |
2010s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2010 | Hong Kong | No Regrets (Rosy Business II) | 巾幗梟雄之義海豪情 | Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation |
| 2010 | 2010 | United States | The Pacific | Action-drama. Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre | |
| 2011 | 2011 | Russia | 1942 | 1942 | Drama. German invasion of Russia and partisans surviving in forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941 |
| 2012 | 2014 | Canada | Bomb Girls | Drama. Canadian homefront and women working in Toronto munitions plant | |
| 2012 | 2012 | United Kingdom | Restless | ||
| 2013 | 2013 | Germany | Generation War | Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter | Group of friends experience different fate during German 1941 east front campaign. |
| 2013 | 2013 | United Kingdom | Spies of Warsaw | A spy posing as a military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw finds himself drawn into the outbreak of World War II. | |
| 2014 | 2014 | United Kingdom | Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | Mini-series detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. | |
| 2014 | 2014 | China | Battle of Changsha | 战长沙 | Set between 1938 and 1945, depicting Battles of Changsha during Second world war. |
| 2015 | 2017 | Canada Hungary |
X Company | Drama. Canadian, British, and American spies based out of a training facility in Canada carry out missions in Nazi-occupied Europe. | |
| 2015 | 2015 | Norway | The Heavy Water War | Kampen om tungtvannet | Based on the operation surrounding the destruction of Nazi heavy water production facility in occupied Norway by the Norwegian Resistance. |
| 2015 | 2015 | Germany | Tannbach | Fictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach, during the ending of the Second World War | |
| 2015 | 2015 | France | Resistance | Résistance | Paris 1940, based on the Groupe du musée de l'Homme |
| 2015 | now | Georgia | Kerch: The Lost Heroes | Kerči: Daḳarguli Gmirebi (ქერჩი: დაკარგული გმირები) | Drama. Centered around ethnic Georgians in the Red Army during Crimean Offensive and Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.[5] |
| 2015 | 2016 | United Kingdom | Home Fires | Drama. Set in a rural Cheshire community called Great Paxford, about the life of Women's Institute members on the Home Front during the Second World War. | |
| 2016 | 2016 | United Kingdom | My Mother and Other Strangers | Drama set in 1943, centering on the townspeople of the fictional village of Moybeg, Northern Ireland, as they come to terms with the influx of thousands of American servicemen. | |
| 2016 | 2016 | United Kingdom | Close to the Enemy | ||
| 2016 | 2016 | Japan | Tokyo Trial | ||
| 2017 | 2017 | Germany | Charité (TV series) | The plot takes place in 1943 at a hospital under the Nazi regime during World War II and shows how the war affected the doctors, nurses and students at Berlin's renowned learning hospital | |
| 2017 | 2017 | United Kingdom | The Halcyon | ||
| 2017 | 2017 | United Kingdom | SS-GB | ||
| 2018 | 2018 | Germany | Das Boot | ||
| 2019 | 2019 | Germany | Charité at War | It is a sequel of Charité. | |
| 2019 | 2019 | United Kingdom | World on Fire | Drama. Mini-series that follows the hidden lives of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during World War II. | |
| 2019 | 2019 | United States Italy |
Catch-22 | Comedy, Drama. USAAF in the Italian campaign. |
2020s edit
| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 October 2020 | 2020 | Norway | Atlantic Crossing | Drama. Evacuation of the Royal Family of Norway during World War II[6] | |
| 18 August 2021 | 2021 | Germany | The_Defeated | Shadowplay | Berlin immediately after being divided into allied zones |
| 24 January 2020 | 2020 | India | The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye | China Burma India Theater , Indian National Army against British Raj | |
| 30 October 2022 | 2022 | United Kingdom | SAS: Rogue Heroes | Origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II. | |
| 2 November 2023 | 2023 | United States | All the Light We Cannot See | A drama about two teenagers during occupied France during World War II.[7] | |
| 2023 | United States | Masters of the Air | 100th Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force[8] |
Science fiction and fantasy edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ The deceased historical figures are played by actors.
- ^ This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ^ Charlotte Link: Sturmzeit, Teil I - V at buecher.de (in German). Retrieved 2012-07-05. The information on Sturmzeit at the IMDb is scanty.
- ^ Zastava Zhilina is directed by Vasili Pichul.
- ^ "GDS.tv".
- ^ Rebecca Cope (1 December 2020). "Why this Norwegian royal drama is being compared to The Crown". Tatler. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ Petski, Denise (10 January 2022). "Mark Ruffalo & Hugh Laurie Join 'All The Light We Cannot See' Netflix Limited Series Adaptation". Deadline. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "What We Know So Far About Apple TV's Masters of the Air: The Latest on Upcoming WWII Miniseries About The Mighty Eighth". Footsteps Research. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2021.