Period Dramas
From historical dramas to captivating mysteries, browse our collection period dramas and take a trip into the past.
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A French Village
7 seasons
DRAMA | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-MA | 2009
This acclaimed drama is about the German occupation of France during World War II, and its effects on the inhabitants of a small village in Jura. In June 1940, the village of Villeneuve awakes to the arrival of the German army - and th... -
Agatha Christie's Criminal Games
4 seasons
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 2013
Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of French TV movies - sexy, witty and definitely addictive! Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie styl... -
Agatha Christie's Family Murder Party
1 season
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 2006
Superintendent Larosière and Inspector Lampion are back in this four-part prequel to The Little Murders of Agatha Christie. The mystery begins when Simon Le Tescou is found dead in his home - and all of his children have motives for ... -
Cesare Mori
1 season
DRAMA | ITALY | ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 2008
The true story of how Cesare Mori ("The Iron Prefect") cleaned up the Sicilian Mafia is a little-known chapter of Italian history and spans the years from World War I to the rise of Fascism. In one night alone, he and his men arrested ... -
Detective De Luca
1 season
DRAMA - CRIME | ITALY | ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 2008
Against the backdrop of Italy’s political upheaval, Fascism and chaos during the ten-year period between 1938 and 1948, Detective De Luca does the one thing he knows how to do best: be a cop. He investigates and solves crimes i... -
The Heavy Water War
1 season
DRAMA | NORWAY | NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 2015
Six-part dramatization of one of the most compelling stories of World War II: British intelligence and the Norwegian military's heroic struggle to thwart Nazi Germany’s atomic bomb ambitions by sabotaging the heavy water plant in Rj... -
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2 seasons
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-PG | 2009
Agatha Christie's world-famous mysteries are delightfully adapted in a new series of French TV movies - sexy, witty and definitely addictive! Set in the 1930s, these iconic stories introduce two new investigators in classic Christie ... -
Maigret
9 seasons
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 1991
Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. To crack his cases he peels back the veneer ... -
Nero Wolfe
1 season
MYSTERY | ITALY | ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-PG | 2012
Curmudgeonly aesthete Nero Wolfe may be one of Rome's finest investigators, but he'd rather tend to his orchids. Newly transplanted from the US, he’s ready for clients who pay well and don’t irritate him excessively. Based on the cla... -
Nicolas Le Floch
1 season
MYSTERY | FRANCE | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14 | 2008
Paris, 1761. Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under Monsieur de Sartine, the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faith... -
Reformation
1 season
DRAMA | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
This series expires on February 28, 2026. A lavish two-part historical drama presenting the story of the university monk from Wittenberg who put the ‘protest’ into Protestant and rocked the religious establishment of his time.