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

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19551958United States'
19561957United States'Drama-action. North Africa Campaign US Army espionage group
19571957United Kingdom'Drama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes
19571958United Kingdom'OSS in occupied France
19571958United StatesDrama. USN submarine service

1960s

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19611963United StatesAlcoa Premiere
"Seven Against the Sea" 		Drama. US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for comedy McHale's Navy
19621963United States'Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign
19621966United StatesMcHale's NavyComedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and Italian Campaign
19621967United StatesCombat!Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France
19631963United StatesMoon strike
19641965United StatesBroadsideComedy. WAVES transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy
19641967United StatesComedy. Island is captured by Japanese sailor
19641967United StatesComedy. Wartime sea mine in lagoon
19641967United StatesComedy. Gorilla armed with wartime grenades
19641967United StatesTwelve O'Clock HighDrama. Missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base and equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High
19651965United StatesConvoyDrama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter
19651965Poland':pl:Podziemny front|Podziemny frontPolish resistance, 1941–45
19651966United StatesMister RobertsComedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts
19651966United States'Comedy. Spy scow/schooner based in the South Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film The Wackiest Ship in the Army
19651971United StatesHogan's HeroesComedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag
19661966United StatesBlue LightDrama.
19661966United KingdomCourt MartialDrama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war
19661967United StatesJerichoDrama. Espionage
19661968United States'Long Range Desert Patrol
19661970PolandFour Tank Men and a DogCzterej pancerni i piesTank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–45
19671968United StatesGarrison's GorillasAdventure-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
19671968PolandMore Than Life at StakeStawka większa niż życieKapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–45
19681977United KingdomDad's ArmyComedy. English Home Guard
19691969United KingdomManhunt

1970s

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19701970East GermanyJeder stirbt für sich allein
19701972United KingdomA Family at War
19711973AustraliaSpyforceAction/drama. Australian series about the fictional Special Intelligence Unit
19711971East GermanyRottenknechte
19711974GreeceUnknown WarfareO Agnostos Polemos
Drama. The adventures of a colonel of the counter-espionage service of Greece during the war.
19721973United KingdomPathfindersRAF pathfinding missions
19721974United KingdomColditzColditz Castle POW camp
19731973Soviet UnionSeventeen Moments of SpringSemnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany
19731974United StatesRoll OutComedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France
19741974YugoslaviaOtpisani
19741975CanadaWitness to YesterdayDrama. Broadcaster Patrick Watson aggressively "interviews" historical figures, including Norman Bethune
19741981United KingdomIt Ain't Half Hot MumComedy.
19751975Poland
Hungary		Third Border:pl:Trzecia granica|Trzecia granica Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary
19751975YugoslaviaThe Farm in the Small Marsh
19761976IranMy Uncle Napoleon:fa:دایی‌جان ناپلئون |دایی‌جان ناپلئونComedy. Tehran under Allied occupation
19761978United StatesBaa Baa Black SheepGregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War
19761983AustraliaThe SullivansDrama. The effects World War II has on the lives of an average middle-class Melbourne family
19771978United KingdomBacks to the LandComedy. Land Girls
19771979United StatesOperation Petticoat Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat
19771979United Kingdom
Belgium		Secret ArmyDrama. Belgian Resistance; followed by 1981 series Kessler
19781981DenmarkMatadorMatadorFictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947
19781978United StatesPearl
19781978YugoslaviaPovratak otpisanih
19781978United StatesHolocaust
19791979United KingdomDanger UXBDra
19791979United StatesIke

1980s

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19801980United StatesGoodtime GirlsComedy. Women's war effort on the homefront
19801980East GermanyArchiv des Todes
19811981United KingdomKesslerDrama. Former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 series Secret Army
19811981United KingdomPrivate Schulz
19811984United Kingdom
Australia		TenkoWomen interned after the Fall of Singapore
19811981AustraliaA Town Like Alice
19821992United Kingdom'Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–1944
19821992United KingdomWe'll Meet Again
19831983United States'Based on film Casablanca
19831983United States'Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families
19831983United KingdomThe Fourth Arm
19841984AustraliaThe Last BastionMini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II
19841984IrelandCaught in a Free State
19841984East GermanyFront ohne Gnade
19841984United KingdomThe Jewel in the CrownThe last days of the British Raj during and after WWII in India. Based on the four novels by Paul Scott known collectively as "The Raj Quartet."
19851985AustraliaThe Cowra BreakoutSemi-fictional mini-series about the Cowra breakout, August 1944
19851985Italy'
19851985SwedenRød snø
19851985AustraliaThe Dunera BoysMini-series based on the Dunera incident, 1940-1941
19851985United StatesJenny's WarWoman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941
19871987United KingdomThe Diary of Anne Frank
19871987United KingdomFortunes of War
19871987AustraliaNancy WakeDrama. Mini-series about the exploits of New Zealand born SOE Operative and French Resistance member Nancy Wake
19881988United States
Yugoslavia		'Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen
19881988United KingdomPiece of CakeRAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain
19881989United States'Continues the story of The Winds of War starting on December 15, 1941 and ending on August 7, 1945
19881991PolandPogranicze w ogniuAction-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918–1939
19881990United KingdomWish Me LuckDrama-espionage. SOE women in German-occupied France
19891989AustraliaTanamera – Lion of SingaporeDrama based on novel.
19891989Australia
United Kingdom		The HeroesMini-series about the Allied commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick

1990s

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
19911991United Kingdom
Australia		'Sequel to The Heroes about a second commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Rimau
19921992DenmarkBlackoutMørklægningThriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and ill
19931993United KingdomDemobComedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers
19941994United KingdomSeaforthDrama. British homefront conman
19941994United KingdomWhich Way to the WarComedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only
19961996United KingdomOver Here
19971997Singapore'Hépíng de dàijià Japanese occupation of Singapore
19981998United KingdomComing Home Drama. Wartime experiences of Judith, a schoolgirl and young woman.
19981998Czech RepublicTři královéDrama. Resistance efforts in German occupation of Czechoslovakia; seven episodes
19991999GermanyRiding the Storm:de:Sturmzeit|Sturmzeit-
19991999GermanyKlemperer – Ein Leben in DeutschlandDrama based on Charlotte Link trilogy. East Prussian home front through both World Wars

2000s

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted
20002000United KingdomMonsignor Renard
20012001United States'
20012001United StatesBand of BrothersAction-drama. Non-fictional account of "Easy" Company from training to war's end, based on Stephen E. Ambrose novel
20012001AustraliaChangiChangi POW camp
20012001SingaporeIn Pursuit of PeaceHérì Jūn Zàilái Japanese occupation of Singapore
20012001Singapore'Zhànzhēng rìjì Romance/Drama. Chinese family during Battle of Singapore and Japanese occupation of Singapore
20012001United KingdomThe Cazalets
20012002United KingdomThe 1940s House
20022015United KingdomFoyle's WarMystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England
20032003United Kingdom'Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940
20042004United KingdomIsland at War
20042004RussiaThe Cadets
20052005United KingdomColditz
20052005United KingdomChurchill's Bodyguard
20052006ChinaLiang JianLiang Jian Campaigns of 18th Army Group and Chinese People's Liberation Army from Sino-Japanese War to Chinese Civil War
20062006CanadaAbove and Beyond
20072007PolandFortress of Codes:pl:Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów|Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrówThriller. Polish and German espionage, 1945
20072007DenmarkNazitübbiesNazitübbiesParody. Nazi Teletubbies
20072007Hong Kong'Leun sai gai yan Nanjing Massacre
20072007Iran
Hungary
France
Lebanon		Zero Degree TurnMadār-e sefr darajeh Drama based on Abdol Hossein Sardari. Iranian student in occupied Paris in love with French-Jewish woman
20082008RussiaApostleApostol Life and treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent
20082008EstoniaWindward LandTuulepealne maaHistory of Estonia through two families, World War I to 1941
20082011PolandTime of Honor:pl:Czas honoru |Czas honoruCichociemni and Polish Resistance
20092009RussiaZastava ZhilinaZastava Zhilina Romance drama. Set in 1941
2009nowFranceUn village françaisOccupied French village, from May 1940 –...
20092011United KingdomLand GirlsDrama. Land Girls
20092009United KingdomThe Diary of Anne Frank
2009?ChinaMy Brother Named Shun LiuWǒde Xiōngdì Jiào Shùn Liū Chinese sniper during the Sino-Japanese War
2009nowChinaMy Chief and My RegimentWǒde Tuánzhǎng Wǒde Tuán 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

YearYearCountryMain title
Original title
Battles, campaigns, events depicted--
2010nowHong KongNo Regrets 巾幗梟雄之義海豪情Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation--
20102010United StatesThe PacificAction-drama. Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre--
20112011Russia'1942Drama. German invasion of Russia and partisans surviving in forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941--
20122014CanadaBomb GirlsDrama. Canadian homefront and women working in Toronto munitions plant--
20122012United KingdomRestless--
20132013GermanyGeneration WarUnsere Mütter, unsere VäterGroup of friends experience different fate during German 1941 east front campaign.--
20142014United Kingdom'Mini-series detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.--
20142014ChinaBattle of Changsha战长沙Set between 1938 and 1945, depicting Battles of Changsha during Second world war.--
20152017Canada
Hungary		X CompanyDrama. Canadian, British, and American spies based out of a training facility in Canada carry out missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.--
20152015NorwayThe Heavy Water WarKampen om tungtvannetBased on the operation surrounding the destruction of Nazi heavy water production facility in occupied Norway by the Norwegian Resistance.--
20152015GermanyTannbachFictionalized story inspired by a village that was divided by the Iron Curtain along a brook known as the Tannbach, during the ending of the Second World War--
20152015FranceRésistanceParis 1940, based on the Groupe du musée de l'Homme--
2015nowGeorgiaKerch: The Lost Heroes Drama. Centered around ethnic Georgians in the Red Army during Crimean Offensive and Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.--
20152016United KingdomHome FiresDrama. 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.--
20162016United KingdomMy Mother and Other StrangersDrama 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.--
20162016United KingdomClose to the Enemy--
20162016JapanTokyo Trial--
20172017United KingdomThe Halcyon--
20172017United KingdomSS-GB--
20182018GermanyDas Boot--
20192019United KingdomWorld on FireDrama. Mini-series that follows the hidden lives of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during World War II.
20192019United States
Italy		Catch-22Comedy, Drama. USAAF in the Italian campaign.--

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