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.

Our Flag Means Death

The year is 1717. Wealthy landowner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well.

Network:
Airdates: 2022 - 2023

Pan Am

A show about an airline flew under the radar and then crashed.

Network:
Airdates: 2011 - 2012

Perdona Nuestros Pecados

The story of a powerful family of the Chilean high aristocracy in the 50’s.

Network:
Airdates: 2017 - 2018

Perry Mason

In booming 1932 Los Angeles, a down-and-out defense attorney takes on the case of a lifetime.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2023

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Three Australian boarding school girls who inexplicably vanish on a field trip to a remote and historic landmark, the Hanging Rock.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2018

Ponies

In 1970s Moscow, two secretaries at the American embassy become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed, uncovering a Cold War conspiracy.

Network:
Airdates: 2026 - current

Portrait of Marriage

A British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel

Network:
Airdates: 1990

Pose

A drama about the Ballroom scene in NYC starting in the 80s.

Network:
Airdates: 2018 - 2021

Project Blue Book

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2020

Queers

Eight monologues that explore some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay history.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Ratched

In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a dark ulterior motive.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Rebellion

The birth of modern Ireland told through the eyes of fictional characters. Okay.

Network:
Airdates: 2016