List of World War II TV series

Below is an incomplete list of fictional television series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.

1950s

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1955	1956	USA	Casablanca		Based on film Casablanca
1955	1958	USA	Navy Log
1956	1957	USA	Combat Sergeant		Drama-action. North Africa Campaign US Army espionage group
1957	1957	UK	Escape		Drama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes
1957	1958	UK	O.S.S.		OSS in occupied France
1957	1958	USA	The Silent Service		Drama. USN submarine service

1960s

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1961	1963	USA	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	USA	The Gallant Men		Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign
1962	1966	USA	McHale's Navy		Comedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign
1962	1967	USA	Combat!		Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France
1963	1963	USA	Moonstrike
1964	1965	USA	Broadside		Comedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy
1964	1967	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Mister Roberts		Comedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts
1965	1966	USA	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	USA	Hogan's Heroes		Comedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag
1966	1966	USA	Blue Light		Drama.
1966	1966	UK	Court Martial		Drama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war
1966	1967	USA	Jericho		Drama. Espionage
1966	1968	USA	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	USA	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	UK	Dad's Army		Comedy. English Home Guard
1969	1969	UK	Manhunt

1970s

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1970	1970	DDR	Jeder stirbt für sich allein
1970	1972	UK	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	DDR	Rottenknechte
1971	1974	Greece	Unknown Warfare	O Agnostos Polemos (Άγνωστος Πόλεμος)	Drama. The adventures of a colonel of the counter-espionage service of Greece during the war. (226 episodes; remade in 1987)
1972	1973	UK	Pathfinders		RAF pathfinding missions
1972	1974	UK	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	USA	Roll Out		Comedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France
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	UK	It Ain't Half Hot Mum		Comedy.
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	USA	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	UK	Backs to the Land		Comedy. Land Girls
1977	1979	USA	Operation Petticoat (Life in the Pink)		Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat
1977	1979	UK  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	USA	Pearl
1978	1978	Yugoslavia	Povratak otpisanih
1978	1978	USA	Holocaust
1979	1979	UK	Danger UXB		Dra
1979	1979	USA	Ike

1980s

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1980	1980	USA	Goodtime Girls		Comedy. Women's war effort on the homefront (Washington, D.C.)
1980	1980	DDR	Archiv des Todes
1981	1981	UK	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	UK	Private Schulz
1981	1984	UK  Australia	Tenko		Women interned after the Fall of Singapore
1981	1981	Australia	A Town Like Alice
1982	1992	UK	'Allo 'Allo!		Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–1944
1982	1992	UK	We'll Meet Again
1983	1983	USA	Casablanca		Based on film Casablanca
1983	1983	USA	The Winds of War		Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families
1983	1983	UK	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	DDR	Front ohne Gnade
1984	1984	UK	The Jewel in the Crown
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	USA	Jenny's War		Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941
1987	1987	UK	The Diary of Anne Frank
1987	1987	UK	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	USA  Yugoslavia	Dirty Dozen: The Series	[2]	Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen
1988	1988	UK	Piece of Cake		RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain
1988	1989	USA	War and Remembrance		Continues the story of The Winds of War starting on December 15, 1941 and ending on August 7, 1945
1988	1991	Poland	The Burning Border	Pogranicze w ogniu	Action-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918–1939
1988	1990	UK	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  UK	The Heroes		Mini-series about the Allied commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick

1990s

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
1991	1991	UK  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	UK	Demob		Comedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers
1994	1994	UK	Seaforth		Drama. British homefront conman
1994	1994	UK	Which Way to the War		Comedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only
1996	1996	UK	Over Here
1997	1997	Singapore	The Price of Peace	Hépíng de dàijià (和平的代價)	Japanese occupation of Singapore
1998	1998	UK	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

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2000	2000	UK	Monsignor Renard
2001	2001	USA	Anne Frank: The Whole Story
2001	2001	USA	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 novel
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	UK	The Cazalets
2001	2002	UK	The 1940s House
2002	2015	UK	Foyle's War		Mystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England
2003	2003	UK	P.O.W.		Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940
2004	2004	UK	Island at War
2004	2004	Russia	The Cadets
2005	2005	UK	Colditz
2005	2005	UK	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 Cantonese)	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	Estonia	Windward Land	Tuulepealne maa	History of Estonia through two families, World War I to 1941
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	UK	Land Girls		Drama. Land Girls
2009	2009	UK	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

Year	Year	Country	Main title (Alternative titles)	Original title (Original script)	Battles, campaigns, events depicted
2010	now	Hong Kong	No Regrets (Rosy Business II)	巾幗梟雄之義海豪情	Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation
2010	2010	USA	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	UK	Restless
2013	2013	Germany	Generation War	Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter	Group of friends experience different fate during German 1941 east front campaign.
2014	2014	UK	Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond		Mini-series detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
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
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	UK	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	UK	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	UK	Close to the Enemy
2016	2016	Japan	Tokyo Trial
2017	2017	UK	The Halcyon
2017	2017	UK	SS-GB
2018	2018	Germany	Das Boot

Science fiction and fantasy

See also

• List of World War II films
• List of World War II short films

References