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Call the Midwife
2012 • Drama
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Why matched: genres Drama
Happy Days
1974 • Comedy
In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023 • Drama • Action & Adventure • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Action & Adventure
Masters of Sex
2013 • Drama
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern t…
Why matched: genres Drama
Dreams of Freedom
2024 • Drama • Soap
Begoña Montes is a woman who lives trapped in a toxic marriage and seeks the long-awaited freedom in Spain in 1958.
Why matched: genres Drama, Soap
Laverne & Shirley
1976 • Comedy • Family
Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.
Why matched: genres Comedy, Family
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017 • Drama • Comedy
It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a tur…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Queen's Gambit
2020 • Drama
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
Why matched: genres Drama
Them
2021 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Grantchester
2014 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Project Blue Book
2019 • Drama • Mystery • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Lessons in Chemistry
2023 • Drama
In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and se…
Why matched: genres Drama
Lovecraft Country
2020 • Drama • Mystery • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
The Doctor Blake Mysteries
2013 • Drama • Mystery
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town'…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
A Place to Call Home
2013 • Drama • Soap
A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following…
Why matched: genres Drama, Soap
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
2023 • Drama
In 1954, a time before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up outcasts dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic t…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Kennedys
2011 • Drama
The triumphs and tragedies of the most popular political family in American history.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Hour
2011 • War & Politics • Drama • Crime
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
The Vietnam War
2017 • War & Politics • Documentary
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including man…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Documentary
The Darling Buds of May
1991 • Drama • Comedy
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy