Written and directed by the acclaimed Stephen Poliakoff, this seven-part mini-series was broadcast on BBC Two in 2016.Īs World War II ends, Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned one final task for the Army: to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, helps the British to develop the jet engine. The Cazalets is available on DVD on Amazon. But what is best and most unusual about the series is how its escapist frivolity slowly turns darker with the approach of war.” – The New York Times “With its escape into a plummy historical world, The Cazalets is the sort of family saga American audiences have loved since Upstairs, Downstairs. The Cazalets stars Hugh Bonneville ( Downton Abbey) and Anna Chancellor ( The Crown). World War II took place from September 1939 until September 1945 and all these dramas, listed here in alphabetical order, are set during that period.īased on Elizabeth Jane Howard’s novels The Light Years and Marking Time, BBC One’s six-part drama from 2001 is the moving story of a large privileged family in London and on their estate in Sussex between the years of 19. To celebrate, we picked out some of TV’s best period drama series set during the conflict. 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the Second World War ending.
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