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Secret Army(1977-1979)

50min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

The Waltons(1972-1981)

TV-G
| 50min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont, Bernard McEveety, Robert Butler, Lee Philips, Vincent Sherman, Philip Leacock, ... - With Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, Judy Norton Taylor, ...

Marvel's Agent Carter(2015-2016)

TV-PG
| 43min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 851 votes)

It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.

Directed by Jennifer Getzinger, Joe Russo, Stephen Williams, Christopher Misiano, Lawrence Trilling, Craig Zisk, ... - With Hayley Atwell, James D'Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, Enver Gjokaj, Shea Whigham, Dominic Cooper, ...

Dad's Army(1968-1977)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

With Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, James Beck, Ian Lavender, John Laurie, ...

Foyle's War(2002-2015)

2h per episode | Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime
3.9/5 (with 42 votes)

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

With Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks

Combat!(1962-1967)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

With Rick Jason, Vic Morrow

The Sullivans(1976-1983)

30min per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.

Directed by David Stevens - With Lorraine Bayly, Paul Cronin, Andrew McFarlane

Shine on Harvey Moon(1982-1995)

30min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

With Suzanne Bertish

It Ain't Half Hot Mum(1974-1981)

NR
| 30min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

Directed by Bob Spiers - With George Layton, Melvyn Hayes, Stuart McGugan, Don Estelle, John Clegg, Kenneth MacDonald, ...

Ratched(2020)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 512 votes)

An origins story, beginning in 1947, which follows Ratched's journey and evolution from nurse to full-fledged monster tracking her murderous progression through the mental health care system.

With Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Judy Davis, ...
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Donkey Kong Country(1998-2000)

TV-Y7
| 30min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Taking place on Kongo Bongo Island, the show focuses on Donkey Kong, the island's resident hero. Before the series' events, he was chosen as the island's future ruler by a magical artifact known as the Crystal Coconut, which is connected to a spirit known as Inka Dinka Doo. In the present, Donkey Kong must prove he deserves the role through his heroics and by simply guarding the coconut. Alongside various allies such as his best friend and sidekick Diddy Kong and his mentor Cranky Kong, he must protect the Crystal Coconut from various threats, most notably the villainous King K. Rool and his Kremling army who long to steal it in order to rule Kongo Bongo. Oftentimes, Donkey Kong has to juggle his guardian duties with his social life, his relationship with Candy Kong, and his love of gorging on bananas.

Directed by Mike Fallows

A Family at War(1970-1972)

1h per episode | War & Politics, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The Ashton family struggles to deal with the harsh realities of the Second World War as their sons are sent away to fight. Those who remain at home in Liverpool live in constant fear of a knock on the door with a telegram from the War Office or the Luftwaffe bombs overhead as they sleep at night.

With Colin Douglas, Barbara Flynn, Shelagh Fraser, Lesley Nunnerley
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A French Village(2009-2017)

50min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
4.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.

With Robin Renucci, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Emmanuelle Bach, Nicolas Gob, Marie Kremer, ...

Tenko(1981-1984)

NR
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Directed by Pennant Roberts - With Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Stephanie Beacham, Louise Jameson, Patricia Lawrence, Veronica Roberts, ...

Hollywood(2020)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 131 votes)

In post-World War II Hollywood, an ambitious group of aspiring actors and filmmakers will do almost anything to make their showbiz dreams come true.

With David Corenswet, Darren Criss, Laura Harrier, Joe Mantello, Dylan McDermott, Jake Picking, ...
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Ellery Queen(1975-1976)

1h per episode | Mystery, Drama
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.

With Betty White

The Gallant Men(1962-1963)

1h per episode | War & Politics
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Gallant Men is a 1962–1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in World War II.

With William Reynolds, Robert McQueeney

A League of Their Own(2022)

TV-14
| Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 45 votes)

In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her best friend Clance, she must forge a new path to pursue her dream.

With Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Kelly McCormack, ...

Land Girls(2009-2011)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

With Selin Hizli

'Allo 'Allo!(1984-1992)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 97 votes)

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Directed by David Croft, Susan Belbin, Richard Boden, Mike Stephens - With Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner, Rose Hill, Vicki Michelle, ...

High Seas(2019-2020)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 68 votes)

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.

With Alejandra Onieva, Ivana Baquero, Jon Kortajarena, José Sacristán, Eloy Azorín, Félix Gómez, ...
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The Jewel in the Crown(1984)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this arrest echo throughout the series with questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.

Directed by Jim O'Brien, Christopher Morahan - With Susan Wooldridge, Art Malik, Tim Pigott-Smith, Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Dance, Eric Porter, ...

Catch-22(2019)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Comedy, Drama, War & Politics
3.7/5 (with 93 votes)

Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries to fulfill his duty, maintain sanity and return home as soon as possible, but incompetence and bureaucracy constantly stand in his way.

Directed by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ellen Kuras - With Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, George Clooney, Daniel David Stewart, Austin Stowell, ...

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy(1999-2000)

1h per episode | Drama

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia. It is based upon the eponymous book and also The Rancher Takes a Wife.

Perfect Love(2023)

Drama, Soap / Telenovela
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

A story about love and its different manifestations, told through the little boy Marcelino in search of his biggest dream: to meet his mother. Inspired by a famous book, the plot takes place in the 1940s.

Saga of Tanya the Evil(2017-)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, War & Politics
4.2/5 (with 167 votes)

On the front lines of the war, Tanya Degurechaff, blond hair, blue eyes, and porcelain white skin, commands her squad with lisping voice. Actually, she is one of Japan's most elite salary men, reborn as a little girl into a world of magical warfare after angering a mysterious being who calls himself God.

Directed by Yutaka Uemura

Gyeongseong Creature(2023-)

TV-MA
| 1h 5min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama
4.1/5 (with 51 votes)

Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed.

With Park Seo-joon, Han So-hee, Claudia Kim, Kim Hae-suk, Cho Han-cheul, Wi Ha-jun, ...
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Mob City(2013)

1h per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.'s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.

With Jon Bernthal

Department S(1969-1970)

50min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.

With Peter Wyngarde, Joel Fabiani, Rosemary Nicols

Fleming(2014)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting rare books and living off his family fortune. Forever in the shadow of his brother Peter, and an eternal disappointment to his formidable mother Eve, Fleming dreams of becoming the ‘ultimate’ man – a hero, a lover, a brute and the one who always gets the girl. He is finally given some direction in his life when he’s recruited by the Director of Naval Intelligence to help in the effort against the Nazis. Suddenly, Fleming finds his chance to shine and prove his worth.

Directed by Mat Whitecross - With Dominic Cooper
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