Period Piece TV Shows (
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Back in the day, these things really happened. Or really could have happened. The term, historical period piece (also historical, period, costume, and period piece) refers to a work set in an earlier time period. It is an informal crossover term that can apply to several genres and is often heard in the context of historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be as long and general as the middle ages or as limited as one decade, for example, the Roaring Twenties.

Black Sails

Follows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel “Treasure Island.”

Network:
Airdates: 2014 - 2017

Boardwalk Empire

An Atlantic City politician plays both sides of the law by conspiring with gangsters during the Prohibition era.

Network:
Airdates: 2010 - 2014

Bomb Girls

A series about a group of women working in a Canadian munitions factory during World War II.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2012 - 2013

Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy

The follow-up movie to the Bomb Girls series following a woman at victory munitions as they contend with a saboteur in the factory.

Network:
Airdates: 2014

Call the Midwife

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late-1950s to mid-1960s.

Network:
Airdates: 2012 - current

Carnivàle

The battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny happens in the dust bowl.

Network:
Airdates: 2003 - 2005

Charité

The series describes the accomplishments of several famous German physicians and scientists at the prestigious Charité hospital in Berlin towards the end of the 19th century.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2017 - 2021

China Beach

The trials of a weary nurse, her friends and colleagues in a Vietnam War field hospital.

Network:
Airdates: 1988 - 1991

Country Matters

Romances from rural England following the first World War.

Network:
Airdates: 1972 - 1973

Crossbones

Set during the golden age of piracy in the 1700s and centers on legendary pirate Blackbeard.

Network:
Airdates: 2014

Cruel Summer

In a small Texas town, popular teen Kate, is abducted. Seemingly unrelated, a girl named Jeanette goes from being a sweet, awkward outsider to the most popular girl in town, but by 1995 she has become the most-despised person in America.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2023

Daisy Jones and the Six

This show follows the story of Daisy, an aspiring musician, and The Six, a band trying to make it in LA.

Network:
Airdates: 2023