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.

It’s a Sin

A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

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Airdates: 2021

Las Chicas Del Cable

Four women, each with unique backgrounds and personalities, make their way in 1920s Spain as working women for a major telephone company in Madrid.

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Airdates: 2017 - 2020

Las Pelotaris 1926

Basque pelota was a men’s sport… until it wasn’t.

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Airdates: 2023

Las Villamizar

Three high society sisters are on a mission to avenge their mother, killed by the Spanish army

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Airdates: 2022

Les Combattantes

The destinies of four women intersect: Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute; Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory; Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent; and Suzanne, a feminist nurse.

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Airdates: 2022

Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie

Every episode of Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie is loosely based on one of her novels. and each season is set in a different time

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Airdates: 2009 - 2024

Let Them Eat Cake

If the peasants want bread, let them watch French and Saunders!

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Airdates: 1999

Little Fires Everywhere

Little Fires Everywhere is based on the 2017 novel on the same name (written by Celeste Ng).

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Airdates: 2020

Lovecraft Country

A young black man travels across the segregated 1950s US in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly based many of his fictional tales.

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Airdates: 2020 - 2021

Luna Nera

A group of women are suspected of witchcraft in 17th century Italy.

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Airdates: 2020

Mad Men

Men and their ads.

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Airdates: 2007 - 2015

Manhattan

Everyone’s got the bomb in Manhattan.

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Airdates: 2014 - 2015