List of World War II television series
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Below is an incomplete list of fictional television series which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
1950s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1958 | United States | Navy Log | ||
| 1956 | 1957 | United States | Combat Sergeant | Drama-action. North African campaign US Army espionage group | |
| 1957 | 1957 | United Kingdom | Escape | Drama. Allied soldiers attempting POW camp escapes; six episodes | |
| 1957 | 1958 | United Kingdom | O.S.S. | OSS in occupied France | |
| 1957 | 1958 | United States | The Silent Service | Drama. USN submarine service |
1960s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1960 | East Germany | Toter Winkel Blind Spot (TV) | Drama. German farm girl at odds with forced-labor camp, guards guilty of war crimes on verge of Soviet occupation period after war during 1945 directed by Wolfgang Luderer | |
| 1961 | 1963 | United States | Alcoa Premiere "Seven Against the Sea" (1962 episode) |
Drama. US PT Boat island base decimated by Japanese forces in Pacific Campaign; pilot episode for comedy McHale's Navy | |
| 1962 | 1963 | United States | The Gallant Men | Drama. US Fifth Army company in Italian Campaign | |
| 1962 | 1966 | United States | McHale's Navy | Comedy. Misadventures of misfit PT Boat crew in Pacific Campaign and (later) Italian Campaign | |
| 1962 | 1967 | United States | Combat! | Drama. Frontline American infantry squad battling across France | |
| 1963 | 1963 | United Kingdom | Moonstrike | The series was an anthology programme: a collection of self-contained stories about acts of resistance in occupied Europe during the Second World War. | |
| 1964 | 1965 | United States | Broadside | Comedy. WAVES (navy women) transferred to South Pacific Theatre to run motorpool on island; spinoff from McHale's Navy | |
| 1964 | 1967 | United States | Gilligan's Island "So Sorry, My Island Now" (1965 episode) |
Comedy. Island is captured by Japanese sailor | |
| "Mine Hero" (1965 episode) | Comedy. Wartime sea mine in lagoon | ||||
| "Forward March" (1966 episode) | Comedy. Gorilla armed with wartime grenades | ||||
| 1964 | 1967 | United States | Twelve O'Clock High | Drama. Missions of USAAF Bomber Group stationed on English air base and equipped with B-17s; based on 1949 film Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1965 | 1965 | United States | Convoy | Drama. Supply convoys and German U-boats in Atlantic Theatre that focused on an American destroyer escort and lead convoy freighter | |
| 1965 | 1965 | Poland | The Underground Front | Podziemny front | Polish resistance, 1941–45 |
| 1965 | 1966 | United States | Mister Roberts | Comedy. US Navy cargo ship in South Pacific; based on 1955 film Mister Roberts | |
| 1965 | 1966 | United States | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Comedy. Spy scow/schooner based in the South Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film The Wackiest Ship in the Army | |
| 1965 | 1971 | United States | Hogan's Heroes | Comedy. Allied prisoners in German Stalag | |
| 1966 | 1966 | United States | Blue Light | Drama. | |
| 1966 | 1966 | United Kingdom | Court Martial | Drama. Judge Advocate General's office investigating crime during war | |
| 1966 | 1967 | United States | Jericho | Drama. Espionage | |
| 1966 | 1968 | United States | The Rat Patrol | Long Range Desert Patrol | |
| 1966 | 1970 | Poland | Four Tank Men and a Dog | Czterej pancerni i pies | Tank crew, their dog, and their T-34 tank in 1st Polish Army on Eastern Front, 1943–45 |
| 1967 | 1968 | United States | Garrison's Gorillas | Adventure-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 | |
| 1967 | 1968 | Poland | More Than Life at Stake | Stawka większa niż życie | Kapitan Hans Kloss, Poland and Germany, 1941–45 |
| 1968 | 1977 | United Kingdom | Dad's Army | Comedy. English Home Guard | |
| 1969 | 1969 | United Kingdom | Manhunt |
1970s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1970 | East Germany | Jeder stirbt für sich allein | ||
| 1970 | 1972 | United Kingdom | A Family at War | ||
| 1971 | 1973 | Australia | Spyforce | Action/drama. Australian series about the fictional Special Intelligence Unit (based on the real Services Reconnaissance Department) | |
| 1971 | 1971 | East Germany | Rottenknechte | ||
| 1971 | 1974 | Greece | Unknown Warfare | O Agnostos Polemos | Drama. The adventures of a colonel of the counter-espionage service of Greece during the war. (226 episodes; remade in 1987) |
| 1972 | 1973 | United Kingdom | Pathfinders | RAF pathfinding missions | |
| 1972 | 1974 | United Kingdom | Colditz | Colditz Castle POW camp | |
| 1973 | 1973 | Soviet Union | Seventeen Moments of Spring | Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny (Семнадцать мгновений весны) | Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany |
| 1973 | 1974 | United States | Roll Out | Comedy-drama. Quartermaster Trucking Company of US Third Army's "Red Ball Express" in France | |
| 1974 | 1974 | Czechoslovakia | Once upon a time there was a house | Byl jednou jeden dům | The fate of the inhabitants of a house before and during WWII. |
| 1974 | 1974 | Yugoslavia | Otpisani | ||
| 1974 | 1975 | Canada | Witness to Yesterday | Drama (talk show format).[1] Broadcaster Patrick Watson aggressively "interviews" historical figures, including Norman Bethune († 1939) | |
| 1974 | 1981 | United Kingdom | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | Comedy. | |
| 1975 | 1977 | United States |
Wonder Woman | Action/Drama/Sci-fi. Fictional stories of Wonder Woman battling Nazis. | |
| 1975 | 1975 | Poland Hungary |
Third Border | Trzecia granica (in Polish) | Polish Resistance in Poland, Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, Hungary |
| 1975 | 1975 | Yugoslavia | The Farm in the Small Marsh | ||
| 1976 | 1976 | Iran | My Uncle Napoleon | داییجان ناپلئون | Comedy. Tehran under Allied occupation |
| 1976 | 1978 | United States | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington and Marine Air Squadron during Pacific War | |
| 1976 | 1983 | Australia | The Sullivans | Drama. The effects World War II has on the lives of an average middle-class Melbourne family | |
| 1977 | 1978 | United Kingdom | Backs to the Land | Comedy. Land Girls | |
| 1977 | 1979 | United States | Operation Petticoat (Life in the Pink) | Comedy. USS Sea Tiger, pink submarine in South West Pacific Theatre; spinoff of film Operation Petticoat | |
| 1977 | 1979 | United Kingdom Belgium |
Secret Army | Drama. Belgian Resistance; followed by 1981 series Kessler | |
| 1978 | 1981 | Denmark | Matador | Matador | Fictional Danish town of Korsbæk, 1929–1947 |
| 1978 | 1978 | United States | Pearl | ||
| 1978 | 1978 | Yugoslavia | Povratak otpisanih | ||
| 1978 | 1978 | United States | Holocaust | ||
| 1979 | 1979 | United Kingdom | Danger UXB | British/PBS Drama centering on a Royal Engineers high explosives disposal unit operating in London defusing un-exploded bombs during the Blitz. | |
| 1979 | 1979 | United States | Ike |
1980s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1980 | United States | Goodtime Girls | Comedy. Women's war effort on the homefront (Washington, D.C.) | |
| 1980 | 1980 | East Germany | Archiv des Todes | ||
| 1981 | 1981 | United Kingdom | Kessler | Drama. Former SS Sturmbannführer living under alias of industrialist to avoid discovery as war criminal; sequel to 1977–79 series Secret Army | |
| 1981 | 1981 | United Kingdom | Private Schulz | ||
| 1981 | 1984 | United Kingdom Australia |
Tenko | Women interned after the Battle of Singapore | |
| 1981 | 1981 | Australia | A Town Like Alice | ||
| 1982 | 1992 | United Kingdom | 'Allo 'Allo! | Comedy. Café in Occupied France, French Resistance, Communist Resistance, RAF, Stalag, Italian expeditionary forces, art heists, 1940–1944 | |
| 1982 | 1992 | United Kingdom | We'll Meet Again | ||
| 1983 | 1983 | United States | Casablanca | Based on film Casablanca | |
| 1983 | 1983 | United States | The Winds of War | Events that lead to WWII up to Pearl Harbor from the perspective of two families | |
| 1983 | 1983 | United Kingdom | The Fourth Arm | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | Australia | The Last Bastion | Mini-series about Australia's relationship with its allies during World War II | |
| 1984 | 1984 | Ireland | Caught in a Free State | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | East Germany | Front ohne Gnade | ||
| 1984 | 1984 | United Kingdom | The Jewel in the Crown | The 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." | |
| 1985 | 1985 | Australia | The Cowra Breakout | Semi-fictional mini-series about the Cowra breakout, August 1944 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | Italy | Mussolini: The Untold Story | ||
| 1985 | 1985 | Sweden | Rød snø | ||
| 1985 | 1985 | Australia | The Dunera Boys | Mini-series based on the Dunera incident, 1940-1941 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | United States | Jenny's War | Woman launches rescue of RAF pilot son downed over Germany, 1941 | |
| 1985 | 1985 | Czechoslovakia | Vlak dětsví a naděje | The Train of Childhood and Expectation | The story of a family from the Czechoslovak borderlands in the pre-war period and during the Second World War. |
| 1987 | 1987 | United Kingdom | The Diary of Anne Frank | ||
| 1987 | 1987 | United Kingdom | Fortunes of War | ||
| 1987 | 1987 | Australia | Nancy Wake | Drama. Mini-series about the exploits of New Zealand born SOE Operative and French Resistance member Nancy Wake | |
| 1988 | 1988 | United States Yugoslavia |
Dirty Dozen: The Series | [2] | Allied prisoners trained for "do or die" missions; spinoff of The Dirty Dozen |
| 1988 | 1988 | United Kingdom | Piece of Cake | RAF from Phoney War through Battle of Britain | |
| 1988 | 1989 | United States | War and Remembrance | Continues the story of The Winds of War starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 7 August 1945 | |
| 1988 | 1991 | Poland | The Burning Border | Pogranicze w ogniu | Action-drama. German and Polish counter-espionage from 1918 to 1939 |
| 1988 | 1990 | United Kingdom | Wish Me Luck | Drama-espionage. SOE women in German-occupied France | |
| 1989 | 1989 | Australia | Tanamera – Lion of Singapore | Drama based on novel. | |
| 1989 | 1989 | Australia United Kingdom |
The Heroes | Mini-series about the Allied commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick |
1990s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1991 | United Kingdom Australia |
Heroes II: The Return | Sequel to The Heroes about a second commando raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Rimau | |
| 1992 | 1992 | Denmark | Blackout | Mørklægning | Thriller. German occupation of Denmark and Danish war-tired and ill |
| 1993 | 1993 | United Kingdom | Demob | Comedy-drama. Two demobilized soldiers | |
| 1994 | 1994 | United Kingdom | Seaforth | Drama. British homefront conman | |
| 1994 | 1994 | United Kingdom | Which Way to the War | Comedy. British and Australian Desert Rats and Italian nurses in North Africa; pilot episode only | |
| 1996 | 1996 | United Kingdom | Over Here | ||
| 1997 | 1997 | Singapore | The Price of Peace | Hépíng de dàijià (和平的代價) | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 1998 | 1998 | United Kingdom | Coming Home (TV serial) | Drama. Wartime experiences of Judith, a schoolgirl and young woman. | |
| 1998 | 1998 | Czech Republic | Three Kings | Tři králové | Drama. Resistance efforts in German occupation of Czechoslovakia; seven episodes |
| 1999 | 1999 | Germany | Riding the Storm | Sturmzeit | |
| 1999 | 1999 | Germany | Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland | Drama based on Charlotte Link trilogy. East Prussian home front through both World Wars[3] |
2000s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2000 | United Kingdom | Monsignor Renard | ||
| 2001 | 2001 | United States | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | ||
| 2001 | 2001 | United States | Band of Brothers | Action-drama. Non-fictional account of "Easy" Company (506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division) from training to war's end, based on Stephen E. Ambrose book | |
| 2001 | 2001 | Australia | Changi | Changi POW camp | |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore | In Pursuit of Peace | Hérì Jūn Zàilái (何日军再来) | Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | Singapore | A War Diary | Zhànzhēng rìjì (战争日记) | Romance/Drama. Chinese family during Battle of Singapore and Japanese occupation of Singapore |
| 2001 | 2001 | United Kingdom | The Cazalets | ||
| 2001 | 2002 | United Kingdom | The 1940s House | ||
| 2002 | 2015 | United Kingdom | Foyle's War | Mystery. English police solving crime amid war in Southern England | |
| 2003 | 2003 | United Kingdom | P.O.W. | Drama. German Stalag Luft and follows RAF crewman captured after Normandy bombing raid, 1940 | |
| 2004 | 2004 | United Kingdom | Island at War | ||
| 2004 | 2004 | Vietnam | A Candle in the Imperial Palace | Ngọn Nến Hoàng Cung | Bảo Đại's point of view during the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina to 1954. |
| 2004 | 2005 | Russia | The Cadets | Kursanty (Курсанты) | |
| 2005 | 2005 | United Kingdom | Colditz | ||
| 2005 | 2005 | United Kingdom | Churchill's Bodyguard | ||
| 2005 | 2006 | China | Liang Jian | Liang Jian (亮剑) | Campaigns of 18th Army Group and Chinese People's Liberation Army from Sino-Japanese War to Chinese Civil War |
| 2006 | 2006 | Vietnam | Under The Flag of Great Cause | Dưới Cờ Đại Nghĩa | From episode 38 to 46, set during the Japanese occupation of Indochina |
| 2006 | 2006 | Canada | Above and Beyond | ||
| 2007 | 2007 | Poland | Fortress of Codes | Tajemnica twierdzy szyfrów | Thriller. Polish and German espionage, 1945 |
| 2007 | 2007 | Denmark | Nazitübbies | Nazitübbies | Parody. Nazi Teletubbies |
| 2007 | 2007 | Hong Kong | War and Destiny | Leun sai gai yan (亂世佳人) (in Yue Chinese) | Nanjing Massacre |
| 2007 | 2007 | Iran Hungary France Lebanon |
Zero Degree Turn | Madār-e sefr darajeh (مدار صفر درجه) (in Persian) | Drama based on Abdol Hossein Sardari. Iranian student in occupied Paris in love with French-Jewish woman |
| 2008 | 2008 | Russia | Apostle | Apostol (Апостол) | Life and treachery for Russian teacher trained as Abwehr double agent |
| 2008 | 2008 | Germany | A Woman in Berlin | 2 episodes | covers the period between 20 April and 22 June 1945 in Berlin during the capture and occupation of the city by the Red Army |
| 2008 | 2008 | Estonia | Windward Land | Tuulepealne maa | History of Estonia through two families, World War I to 1941 |
| 2008 | 2008 | Germany | Wilhelm Gustloff | Die Gustloff | Greatest Disaster of German transport ship wreck by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945. |
| 2008 | 2011 | Poland | Time of Honor | Czas honoru | Cichociemni (SOE agents) and Polish Resistance |
| 2009 | 2009 | Russia | Zastava Zhilina[4] | Zastava Zhilina (Застава Жилина) | Romance drama. Set in 1941 |
| 2009 | now | France | A French Village | Un village français | Occupied French village, from May 1940 –... (one month per episode) |
| 2009 | 2011 | United Kingdom | Land Girls | Drama. Land Girls | |
| 2009 | 2009 | United Kingdom | The Diary of Anne Frank | ||
| 2009 | ? | China | My Brother Named Shun Liu | Wǒde Xiōngdì Jiào Shùn Liū (我的兄弟叫顺溜) | Chinese sniper during the Sino-Japanese War |
| 2009 | now | China | My Chief and My Regiment | Wǒde Tuánzhǎng Wǒde Tuán (我的团长我的团) | 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
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2010 | United States | The Pacific | Action-drama. Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Pacific Theatre. | |
| 2010 | 2010 | Vietnam | The Horse Gallops on the Southern Sky | Vó Ngựa Trời Nam | Vietnamese revolutionary's struggle against French and later Japanese occupation in Cochinchina. |
| 2010 | 2010 | Hong Kong | No Regrets (Rosy Business II) | 巾幗梟雄之義海豪情 | Drama. Canton, China during Japanese occupation. |
| 2011 | 2011 | Russia | 1942 | 1942 | Drama. German invasion of Russia and partisans surviving in forests; continuation of 2009 film 1941 |
| 2012 | 2014 | Canada | Bomb Girls | Drama. Canadian homefront and women working in Toronto munitions plant | |
| 2012 | 2012 | United Kingdom | Restless | ||
| 2013 | 2013 | Germany | Generation War | Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter | Group of friends experience different fate during German 1941 east front campaign. |
| 2013 | 2013 | United Kingdom Poland |
Spies of Warsaw | A spy posing as a military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw finds himself drawn into the outbreak of World War II. | |
| 2013 | 2013 | Belarus | Traces of the Apostles | Следы апостолов Сляды апосталаў |
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| 2013 | 2014 | Russia | The Bomb | Бомба | Action, Drama, War. |
| 2014 | 2014 | United Kingdom | Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | Mini-series detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. | |
| 2014 | 2014 | China | Battle of Changsha | 战长沙 | Set between 1938 and 1945, depicting Battles of Changsha during Second world war. |
| 2015 | 2017 | Canada Hungary |
X Company | Drama. Canadian, British, and American spies based out of a training facility in Canada carry out missions in Nazi-occupied Europe. | |
| 2015 | 2015 | Norway | The Heavy Water War | Kampen om tungtvannet | Based on the operation surrounding the destruction of Nazi heavy water production facility in occupied Norway by the Norwegian Resistance. |
| 2015 | 2015 | Germany | Tannbach | Fictionalized 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 | |
| 2015 | 2015 | France | Resistance | Résistance | Paris 1940, based on the Groupe du musée de l'Homme |
| 2015 | now | Georgia | Kerch: The Lost Heroes | Kerči: Daḳarguli Gmirebi (ქერჩი: დაკარგული გმირები) | Drama. Centered around ethnic Georgians in the Red Army during Crimean Offensive and Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.[5] |
| 2015 | 2016 | United Kingdom | Home Fires | Drama. 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. | |
| 2016 | 2016 | United Kingdom | My Mother and Other Strangers | Drama 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. | |
| 2016 | 2016 | United Kingdom | Close to the Enemy | ||
| 2016 | 2016 | Japan | Tokyo Trial | ||
| 2016 | 2022 | Russia Ukraine |
Under Military Law | По законам военного времени За законами воєнного часу |
Drama, History, War. |
| 2017 | 2017 | Germany | Charité (TV series) | The plot takes place in 1943 at a hospital under the Nazi regime during World War II and shows how the war affected the doctors, nurses and students at Berlin's renowned learning hospital | |
| 2017 | 2017 | United Kingdom | The Halcyon | ||
| 2017 | 2017 | United Kingdom | SS-GB | ||
| 2018 | 2018 | Germany | Das Boot | ||
| 2019 | 2019 | Germany | Charité at War | It is a sequel of Charité. | |
| 2019 | 2019 | United Kingdom | World on Fire | Drama. Mini-series that follows the hidden lives of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during World War II. | |
| 2019 | 2019 | United States Italy |
Catch-22 | Comedy, Drama. USAAF in the Italian campaign. | |
| 2019 | 2019 | Russia | Death to Spies | СМЕРШ | Action, Drama, History, Mystery, War. |
2020s
[edit]| Year | Year | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2020 | Norway | Atlantic Crossing | Drama. Evacuation of the Royal Family of Norway during World War II[6] | |
| 2020 | 2020 | United States | The Liberator | Italian campaign | |
| 2021 | 2021 | Germany | The Defeated | Shadowplay | Berlin immediately after being divided into allied zones |
| 2020 | 2020 | India | The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye | China Burma India Theater, Indian National Army against British Raj | |
| 2020 | 2020 | United Kingdom | Life After Life | An English woman experiences an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth in the first half of the 20th century, which includes The Blitz and the destruction of Germany after Allied bombings. | |
| 2022 | 2022 | United Kingdom | SAS: Rogue Heroes | Origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II. | |
| 2022 | 2022 | Russia | SMERSH. Continuation | СМЕРШ. Продолжение | Action, Drama, History, Mystery, War. |
| 2023 | 2023 | United States | All the Light We Cannot See | A drama about two teenagers during occupied France during World War II.[7] | |
| 2023 | 2023 | Russia | Call sign "Cranes" | Позывной «Журавли» | Drama, War. |
| 2024 | 2024 | United States | Masters of the Air | 100th Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force[8] | |
| 2024 | 2024 | Philippines | Pulang Araw | Japanese occupation of the Philippines | |
| 2024 | 2024 | United States | We Were the Lucky Ones | A Polish Jewish family separated by the Invasion of Poland | |
| 2024 | 2024 | Italy Australia United Kingdom United States |
The Tattooist of Auschwitz | A Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp | |
| 2024 | 2024 | Russia | Smersh. 1944 | Смерш. 1944 | |
| 2025 | 2025 | Russia | So, that's where we're headed | Значит, нам туда дорога |
Science fiction and fantasy
[edit]| Years | Country | Main title (Alternative titles) |
Original title (Original script) |
Battles, campaigns, events depicted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 1964 | United States | The Twilight Zone "The Man in the Bottle" (1960 episode) |
Fantasy. Genie turns man into Hitler at the Battle of Berlin, 1945 | |
| "A Quality of Mercy" (1961 episode) | Fantasy. A racist American officer is turned into a Japanese man during the Philippines Campaign. | ||||
| 1964 | 1965 | United States | Jonny Quest "The Devil's Tower" (1965 episode) |
Animated. Nazi war criminal has slave cavemen | |
| 1964 | 1968 | United States | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Death from the Past" (1967 episode) |
SF adventure. Nazis who believe the war has not ended | |
| 1966 | 1967 | United States | The Time Tunnel "The Day The Sky Fell In" (1966 episode) |
SF adventure. Time travellers at Pearl Harbor the day before | |
| "Invasion" (1966 episode) | SF adventure. Time travellers in Cherbourg before D-Day | ||||
| 1966 | 1969 | United States | Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967 episode) |
SF drama. Time-travelling Dr. McCoy causes Hitler to win the war | |
| "Patterns of Force" (1968 episode) | SF drama. Alien society modelled after Nazi Germany | ||||
| 1975 | 1976 | United States | Wonder Woman (The New Original Wonder Woman / The New Adventures of Wonder Woman) (Season 1 only) |
Diana Prince battles Nazi villains; Wonder Woman (TV) spinoff | |
| 1980 | 1980 | United States | Galactica 1980 "Galactica Discovers Earth" (episode) |
SF adventure. V-2 rocket programme receives future technology | |
| 1989 | 1989 | United Kingdom | Doctor Who Season Twenty Six "The Curse of Fenric" (4 episodes) |
SF adventure. The Doctor and Ace confront an ancient evil, while trying to stop the British Navy and a group of Soviet commandos from destroying each other | |
| 1993 | 1999 | United Kingdom | Goodnight Sweetheart | Comedy-Fantasy. Time traveller living two lives, between 1940's wartime London and 1990s | |
| 1999 | 2004 | United States | Angel "Why We Fight" (2004 episode) |
Vampires encounter undead U-boat crew | |
| 1999 | present | United States | Family Guy "Road to Germany" (2008 episode) |
Animated SF comedy. Time-travelling Brian and Stewie in a Warsaw shul, 1 September 1939 | |
| 2001 | 2005 | United States | Star Trek: Enterprise "Storm Front (Star Trek: Enterprise)" (2004 episode) |
SF adventure. Aliens from an alternate timeline join with Nazis to attempt a takeover of Earth while at the same time attempting to return to their native timeline | |
| 2004 | 2005 | Japan | Zipang | Jipangu (ジパング) | Anime. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer travelling through time to early days of war |
| 2007 | 2020 | Japan | Strike Witches | Sutoraiku Wicchīzu (ストライクウィッチーズ) | Anime. Set on an alternate Earth that being invaded by aliens call the "Neuroi", most of Witches are based on the World War II flying aces |
| 2008 | 2010 | Japan | Hetalia: Axis Powers | Hetaria Axis Powers (ヘタリア Axis Powers) | Anime. Characters as national personifications of wartime countries |
| 2011 | 2011 | United Kingdom | Doctor Who Sixth Series "Let's Kill Hitler" (episode) |
SF adventure. Time travellers lock Hitler in a cupboard, 1938 | |
| 2015 | TBA | Japan | Kantai Collection | Kantai Korekushon -KanKore- (艦隊これくしょん -艦これ-) | Anime. Set in a world with the monsters from the deep sea called the "Abyssal Fleet", all Fleet Girls are based on the World War II warships |
| 2016 | 2016 | Japan | Izetta: The Last Witch | Shūmatsu no Izetta (終末のイゼッタ) | Anime. Set in an alternate Earth with a story based on World War II, featuring a witch that possesses the ability to magically manipulate any object that she touches |
| 2018 | 2018 | Japan | Katana Maidens: Toji No Miko | Toji no Miko (刀使ノ巫女) | Anime. Set in the modern time, however the story also focuses on a project dated from near the end of the World War II |
| 2019 | 2019 | Japan | Azur Lane | Azūru Rēn (アズールレーン) | Anime. Set in the world that being invaded by the mysterious creatures called the "Siren" and other nations fight each other, all ships are based on the World War II warships |
| 2023 | 2024 | South Korea | Gyeongseong Creature (1st season) | Gyeongseong Keulicheo (경성크리처) | Set in 1945, where Unit 731 experiments created monsters underground in Gyeongseong, when Korea was still under Japanese occupation |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ The deceased historical figures are played by actors.
- ^ This film is an international co-production shot in English.
- ^ Charlotte Link: Sturmzeit, Teil I - V at buecher.de (in German). Retrieved 2012-07-05. The information on Sturmzeit at the IMDb is scanty.
- ^ Zastava Zhilina is directed by Vasili Pichul.
- ^ "GDS.tv".
- ^ Rebecca Cope (1 December 2020). "Why this Norwegian royal drama is being compared to The Crown". Tatler. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ Petski, Denise (10 January 2022). "Mark Ruffalo & Hugh Laurie Join 'All The Light We Cannot See' Netflix Limited Series Adaptation". Deadline. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "What We Know So Far About Apple TV's Masters of the Air: The Latest on Upcoming WWII Miniseries About The Mighty Eighth". Footsteps Research. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2021.