Welcome to the ONLY comprehensive listing guide to the latest period drama in the UK – the best place to find your 2023 period dramas.

This page is regularly updated with details of the latest period drama due in the cinemas and on your TV in 2023.

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January 2023

• 6th Jan – The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix movie) – Follows a veteran detective who investigates the murders, helped by a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become a world famous author, Edgar Allan Poe.
• 13th Jan – Till (movie) – The story of Emmett Louis Till and the legacy of his mother who pursued justice for her lynched son.
• 13th Jan – Empire Of Light (movie) – Set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the 1980s, the film is described as a love story. Starring Olivia Colman.
• 20th Jan – Babylon (movie) –  Period, R-rated drama, set in the shifting moment in Hollywood when the industry turned from silent film to talkies. Margot Robbie is due to star as Clara Bow.
• 27th Jan – The Fabelmans (movie) – A semi-autobiography based on Spielberg’s own childhood growing up in post-war Arizona, from age seven to eighteen.

April 2023

• 7th Apr – Chevalier (movie) – Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.

July 2023

• 21st July – Oppenheimer (movie) – The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

December 2023

• 20th Dec – The Colour Purple (movie) – Musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s.

Sometime in 2023 or later

A Gentleman In Moscow (movie) – Ewan McGregor plays Count Alexander Rostov who, in the afetrmath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past places him on the wrong side of history

A Thousand Blows (Disney series) – Set in 1850’s East London, a series about a gang of female boxers during the industrial revolution, which will star Stephen Graham as boxer Henry “Sugar” Goodson.

Alina of Cuba (movie) – tells the real life story of Castro’s exiled daughter.

The Ballad of Renegade Nell (Disney+ series) – Accused of murder, Nell Jackson finds herself forced to live on plunder and expedients with her two sisters. Helped by a brave spirit named Billy Blind, she realizes that fate has not led her astray by chance as she will cross paths with Queen Anne and play a role in the power struggles that are being played out over the European battlefields.

The Bikeriders (movie) – The film is an original story set in the 1960s following the rise of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group’s unique way of life.

Brideshead Revisited (mini-series) – A remake of the Evelyn Waugh novel.

Cleopatra (movie) – Feature film based on the life of the powerful Egyptian leader. Starring Gal Gadot.

Curtain Call (movie) – The film, set in 1930s London, revolves around a feared theater critic named Jimmy Erskine (Beale), his loyal assistant (Essiedu), a newspaper owner (Firth) who wants to get rid of the critic and an actress (Arterton) who has been devastated by the excoriating theatrical reviews.

The Decameron (Netflix series) – In 1348, the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday.

The Devil In The White City (mini-series) – An architect works to build up the 1893 World’s Fair, while the serial killer H. H. Holmes uses the fair to attract and kill women.

Dick Turpin (Apple TV series) – Noel Fielding stars as Dick Turpin, the legendary British highwayman.

Eleanor of Aquitaine (mini-series) – A new series based on Alison Weir’s Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life and Captive Queen.

Fellow Travellers – an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington

Firebrand (movie) – A psychological thriller focusing on Henry VIII’s last wife, Catherine Parr.

The Five (TV series)  – A drama series about the untold story of Jack The Ripper’s victims, based on the book by Hallie Rubenhold

Freud’s Last Session (movie) – Set on the eve of WWII and towards the end of his life, Freud’s Last Session sees Freud invite iconic author C.S. Lewis for a debate over the existence of God.

The Gold (mini-series) – Inspired by the true story of the UK’s iconic Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed.

Griselda (series) – The life of Griselda Blanco, a devoted mother who created one of the most profitable cartels in history.

A Haunting in Venice (movie) – In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance, when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

The Hood (movie) – Benedict Cumberbatch will play a farmer who becomes the leader of the Peasant’s Revolt.

Irena Sendler (movie) – The story of Polish nurse and social worker Irena Sendler, and her activities with the Polish Underground Resistance in German-occupied Warsaw during World War 2.

Josephine Baker Biopic (mini-series) – starring Ruth Negga as the legendary Jazz performer and civil rights activist

Killers of the Flower Moon (movie) – Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Kitbag (movie) – The film is an original and personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.

Lee (movie) – Former Vogue cover model Lee Miller travels to the front lines of World War II as a photojournalist and goes on a mission to expose the hidden truths of Nazi Germany. But in the aftermath of betrayal, she comes to a reckoning about the truths of her own past.

Let Me Count The Ways (movie) – A dramatization of the love affair between the Elizabeth Barrett Browning and playwright Robert Browning in the mid-19th century.

The New Look (mini-series) – Explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence.

Nell Gwyn (movie) – A dramatization of the life of Nell Gwyn, mistress of Charles II.

Nolly (mini-series) – A mini-series about Crossroads legend Noele Gordon.

Not Bloody Likely (movie) – Based on the true story behind George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece Pygmalion. Starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.

Maestro (movie) – The complex love of Leonard and Felicia, from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25 year marriage, and three children.

Manhunt (Apple TV series) – the new series will explore the assassination of former President Abraham Lincoln.

Marie Antoinette (BBC series) – The series tells the story of “the incredibly modern and avant-garde young queen” who was only 14 years old when she left Austria to marry the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI.

Mary and George(series) – Mary & George will dramatise the fascinating true story of Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham.

Mary’s Monster (movie) – Terrified of giving voice to the darkness of her subconscious mind, Mary Shelley locks into a dangerous battle with her own ‘inner monster’ as she struggles to write her seminal science fiction novel, Frankenstein.

Masters Of The Air (Apple TV series) – Five miles above the earth and deep behind enemy lines, eleven men inside a bomber known as the “Flying Fortress” fight for their lives against swarms of enemy German fighters. As American bombers are picked off one by one, their mission becomes very clear: survive.

The Man Who Saved Paris (movie) – The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore the city’s image (City of Love, Romance, Light) after the Nazi Occupation and falls in love when he least expects it.

Miss Austen (mini-series) – Inspired by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra’s infamous burning of Jane’s letter.

Mrs Churchill (mini-series) – a drama series based on the public and private life of Clementine Churchill, wife of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

The Nightingale (movie) – The lives of two sisters living in France are torn apart at the onset of World War II. Based on Kristin Hannah’s novel ‘The Nightingale’.

Queen Charlotte – A Bridgerton Story (series) – The spinoff will centre on a young Queen Charlotte  and the great societal shift she brought on with her marriage to King George, leading to the creation of the Ton.

The Rise of the Pink Ladies (series) – A spinoff of the original John Travolta and Olivia Newton John 1978 musical.

Rivals (Disney+ series) – Rivals dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986, where the shoulder pads are big and and ambitions even bigger

Roosevelt (movie) – A biographical drama about President Theodore Roosevelt starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Seacole (movie) – The story of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who sought to work with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (mini-series) – A mind-bending murder mystery which presents an intriguing puzzle – how do you solve a murder when every time you are getting close to the answer, you wake up in someone else’s body?

A Special Relationship (movie) – A new biopic about Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Ten Pound Poms (TV series) – follows the stories of a group of Brits who embark on a life-changing journey to Australia in 1956.

The Three Musketeers (movie) – A new two-part movie adaptation, starring Eva Green.

War Magician (movie) – The wild story of Jasper Maskelyne, a British illusionist who used magic to defeat Erwin Rommel in World War II.

The White House Plumbers (mini-series) – A five-part series that tells the true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect.

Wicked Little Letters (movie) – When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery.

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