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 | Casablanca | Based on film Casablanca | ||
1955 | 1958 | Navy Log | |||
1956 | 1957 | Combat Sergeant | Drama-action. North Africa Campaign US Army espionage group | ||
1957 | 1957 | Escape | Drama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes | ||
1957 | 1958 | O.S.S. | OSS in occupied France | ||
1957 | 1958 | 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 | 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 | The Gallant Men | Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign | ||
1962 | 1966 | McHale's Navy | Comedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign | ||
1962 | 1967 | Combat! | Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France | ||
1963 | 1963 | Moonstrike | |||
1964 | 1965 | Broadside | Comedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy | ||
1964 | 1967 | 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 | 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 | Convoy | Drama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter | ||
1965 | 1965 | The Underground Front | Podziemny front | Polish resistance, 1941–45 | |
1965 | 1966 | Mister Roberts | Comedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts | ||
1965 | 1966 | 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 | Hogan's Heroes | Comedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag | ||
1966 | 1966 | Blue Light | Drama. | ||
1966 | 1966 | Court Martial | Drama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war | ||
1966 | 1967 | Jericho | Drama. Espionage | ||
1966 | 1968 | The Rat Patrol | Long Range Desert Patrol | ||
1966 | 1970 | 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 | 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 | More Than Life at Stake | Stawka większa niż życie | Kapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–45 | |
1968 | 1977 | Dad's Army | Comedy. English Home Guard | ||
1969 | 1969 | Manhunt |
1970s
Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1970 | 1970 | Jeder stirbt für sich allein | |||
1970 | 1972 | A Family at War | |||
1971 | 1973 | Spyforce | Action/drama. Australian series about the fictional Special Intelligence Unit (based on the real Services Reconnaissance Department) | ||
1971 | 1971 | Rottenknechte | |||
1971 | 1974 | 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 | Pathfinders | RAF pathfinding missions | ||
1972 | 1974 | Colditz | Colditz Castle POW camp | ||
1973 | 1973 | Seventeen Moments of Spring | Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (Семнадцать мгновений весны) | Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany | |
1973 | 1974 | Roll Out | Comedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France | ||
1974 | 1974 | Otpisani | |||
1974 | 1975 | Witness to Yesterday | Drama (talk show format).[1] Broadcaster Patrick Watson aggressively "interviews" historical figures, including Norman Bethune († 1939) | ||
1974 | 1981 | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | Comedy. | ||
1975 | 1975 | Third Border | Trzecia granica (in Polish) | Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary | |
1975 | 1975 | The Farm in the Small Marsh | |||
1976 | 1976 | My Uncle Napoleon | داییجان ناپلئون | Comedy. Tehran under Allied occupation | |
1976 | 1978 | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War | ||
1976 | 1983 | The Sullivans | Drama. The effects World War II has on the lives of an average middle-class Melbourne family | ||
1977 | 1978 | Backs to the Land | Comedy. Land Girls | ||
1977 | 1979 | Operation Petticoat (Life in the Pink) | Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat | ||
1977 | 1979 | Secret Army | Drama. Belgian Resistance; followed by 1981 series Kessler | ||
1978 | 1981 | Matador | Matador | Fictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947 | |
1978 | 1978 | Pearl | |||
1978 | 1978 | Povratak otpisanih | |||
1978 | 1978 | Holocaust | |||
1979 | 1979 | Danger UXB | Dra | ||
1979 | 1979 | Ike |
1980s
Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | 1980 | Goodtime Girls | Comedy. Women's war effort on the homefront (Washington, D.C.) | ||
1980 | 1980 | Archiv des Todes | |||
1981 | 1981 | 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 | Private Schulz | |||
1981 | 1984 | Tenko | Women interned after the Fall of Singapore | ||
1981 | 1981 | A Town Like Alice | |||
1982 | 1992 | 'Allo 'Allo! | Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–1944 | ||
1982 | 1992 | We'll Meet Again | |||
1983 | 1983 | Casablanca | Based on film Casablanca | ||
1983 | 1983 | The Winds of War | Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families | ||
1983 | 1983 | The Fourth Arm | |||
1984 | 1984 | The Last Bastion | Mini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II | ||
1984 | 1984 | Caught in a Free State | |||
1984 | 1984 | Front ohne Gnade | |||
1984 | 1984 | The Jewel in the Crown | |||
1985 | 1985 | The Cowra Breakout | Semi-fictional mini-series about the Cowra breakout, August 1944 | ||
1985 | 1985 | Mussolini: The Untold Story | |||
1985 | 1985 | Rød snø | |||
1985 | 1985 | The Dunera Boys | Mini-series based on the Dunera incident, 1940-1941 | ||
1985 | 1985 | Jenny's War | Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941 | ||
1987 | 1987 | The Diary of Anne Frank | |||
1987 | 1987 | Fortunes of War | |||
1987 | 1987 | Nancy Wake | Drama. Mini-series about the exploits of New Zealand born SOE Operative and French Resistance member Nancy Wake | ||
1988 | 1988 | Dirty Dozen: The Series | [2] | Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen | |
1988 | 1988 | Piece of Cake | RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain | ||
1988 | 1989 | War and Remembrance | Continues the story of The Winds of War starting on December 15, 1941 and ending on August 7, 1945 | ||
1988 | 1991 | The Burning Border | Pogranicze w ogniu | Action-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918–1939 | |
1988 | 1990 | Wish Me Luck | Drama-espionage. SOE women in German-occupied France | ||
1989 | 1989 | Tanamera – Lion of Singapore | Drama based on novel. | ||
1989 | 1989 | 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 | Heroes II: The Return | Sequel to The Heroes about a second commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Rimau | ||
1992 | 1992 | Blackout | Mørklægning | Thriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and ill | |
1993 | 1993 | Demob | Comedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers | ||
1994 | 1994 | Seaforth | Drama. British homefront conman | ||
1994 | 1994 | Which Way to the War | Comedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only | ||
1996 | 1996 | Over Here | |||
1997 | 1997 | The Price of Peace | Hépíng de dàijià (和平的代價) | Japanese occupation of Singapore | |
1998 | 1998 | Coming Home (TV serial) | Drama. Wartime experiences of Judith, a schoolgirl and young woman. | ||
1998 | 1998 | Three Kings | Tři králové | Drama. Resistance efforts in German occupation of Czechoslovakia; seven episodes | |
1999 | 1999 | Riding the Storm | Sturmzeit | ||
1999 | 1999 | 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 | Monsignor Renard | |||
2001 | 2001 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | |||
2001 | 2001 | 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 | Changi | Changi POW camp | ||
2001 | 2001 | In Pursuit of Peace | Hérì Jūn Zàilái (何日军再来) | Japanese occupation of Singapore | |
2001 | 2001 | A War Diary | Zhànzhēng rìjì (战争日记) | Romance/Drama. Chinese family during Battle of Singapore and Japanese occupation of Singapore | |
2001 | 2001 | The Cazalets | |||
2001 | 2002 | The 1940s House | |||
2002 | 2015 | Foyle's War | Mystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England | ||
2003 | 2003 | P.O.W. | Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940 | ||
2004 | 2004 | Island at War | |||
2004 | 2004 | The Cadets | |||
2005 | 2005 | Colditz | |||
2005 | 2005 | Churchill's Bodyguard | |||
2005 | 2006 | 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 | Above and Beyond | |||
2007 | 2007 | Fortress of Codes | Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów | Thriller. Polish and German espionage, 1945 | |
2007 | 2007 | Nazitübbies | Nazitübbies | Parody. Nazi Teletubbies | |
2007 | 2007 | War and Destiny | Leun sai gai yan (亂世佳人) (in Cantonese) | Nanjing Massacre | |
2007 | 2007 | 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 | Apostle | Apostol (Апостол) | Life and treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent | |
2008 | 2008 | Windward Land | Tuulepealne maa | History of Estonia through two families, World War I to 1941 | |
2008 | 2011 | Time of Honor | Czas honoru | Cichociemni (SOE agents) and Polish Resistance | |
2009 | 2009 | Zastava Zhilina[4] | Zastava Zhilina (Застава Жилина) | Romance drama. Set in 1941 | |
2009 | now | A French Village | Un village français | Occupied French village, from May 1940 –... (one month per episode) | |
2009 | 2011 | Land Girls | Drama. Land Girls | ||
2009 | 2009 | The Diary of Anne Frank | |||
2009 | ? | 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 | 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 | No Regrets (Rosy Business II) | 巾幗梟雄之義海豪情 | Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation | |
2010 | 2010 | The Pacific | Action-drama. Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre | ||
2011 | 2011 | 1942 | 1942 | Drama. German invasion of Russia and partisans surviving in forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941 | |
2012 | 2014 | Bomb Girls | Drama. Canadian homefront and women working in Toronto munitions plant | ||
2012 | 2012 | Restless | |||
2013 | 2013 | Generation War | Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter | Group of friends experience different fate during German 1941 east front campaign. | |
2014 | 2014 | Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | Mini-series detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. | ||
2015 | 2017 | 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 | The Heavy Water War | Kampen om tungtvannet | ||
2015 | 2015 | Resistance | Résistance | Paris 1940, based on the Groupe du musée de l'Homme | |
2015 | now | 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 | 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 | 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 | Close to the Enemy | |||
2016 | 2016 | Tokyo Trial | |||
2017 | 2017 | The Halcyon | |||
2017 | 2017 | SS-GB | |||
2018 | 2018 | Das Boot | |||
Science fiction and fantasy
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://www.gds.tv/kerchi
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