Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1The Hour (2011)The Hour (2011) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 Jul 2011A 1950s television newsroom tries to report a changing world while its own hierarchy decides which risks are permissible. Clothes, studio routines and social codes all affect who can speak with authority. Two seasons offer a stylish, intelligent discovery about public information and private…0
  2. 2The Knick (2014)The Knick (2014) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Aug 2014A New York hospital at the start of the twentieth century makes medical innovation inseparable from money, racism and professional status. Steven Soderbergh's restless direction and electronic score stop the period setting feeling safely sealed in the past. Choose it for institutions under…0
  3. 3The Porter (2022)The Porter (2022) 6.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 21 Feb 2022Black railway porters in 1920s Canada pursue different paths through a system that relies on their work while denying them power. Union organising, business ambition and family life make the period feel economically specific. Inspired by real histories rather than a literal collective biography,…0
  4. 4The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022)The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022) 6.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Dec 2022A woman born into slavery in Jamaica arrives in Georgian London and becomes the person whose account others would prefer not to hear. Sara Collins' adaptation makes literacy, scientific authority and domestic service part of the struggle over her story. The four-part drama includes a central love…0
  5. 5The Gallows Pole (2023)The Gallows Pole (2023) 6.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 31 May 2023An eighteenth-century Yorkshire community approaches counterfeiting through hunger, damaged bodies and the need to make a living. Shane Meadows' loose, sometimes comic conversations make historical figures feel stubbornly present. Its three episodes are a fictionalised prelude around the Cragg Vale…0
  6. 6The Miniaturist (2017)The Miniaturist (2017) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 26 Dec 2017A young bride enters an Amsterdam merchant household whose miniature replica seems to know more than she does. Material objects and expensive surfaces conceal the constraints governing marriage, trade and sexuality. The adaptation is a gothic historical mystery, useful for a museum-minded viewer…0
  7. 7The Luminaries (2020)The Luminaries (2020) 6.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 May 2020A young woman arriving in nineteenth-century New Zealand becomes entangled in desire, money and a murder during the gold rush. Eleanor Catton reshapes her own novel for television, using coincidence and astrology as part of its deliberately intricate design. This is the atmospheric puzzle option,…0
  8. 8The Restaurant (2017)The Restaurant (2017) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 2 Oct 2017A Stockholm restaurant-owning family and its staff negotiate the decades following the Second World War. The Swedish-language drama makes food service, property and changing social expectations part of the same story. Choose it for the way upstairs decisions depend on downstairs labour, with a…0
  9. 9Paris Police 1900 (2021)Paris Police 1900 (2021) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Feb 2021A murder investigation unfolds in a city shaped by antisemitism, nationalism and the political aftermath of the Dreyfus affair. The French-language drama's institutions are as threatening as its individual suspects. It is an unusually grim historical route, with sexual exploitation and graphic…0
  10. 10The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025)The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 18 Apr 2025A surgeon's memories of the Burma Railway and an earlier affair keep intruding on the respectable life he later appears to possess. The five-part 2025 Australian adaptation makes the distance between a public reputation and a lived history its central pressure. Extraordinary work and captivity sit…0