Shows Like Wolf Hall

If you liked Wolf Hall (2015), a drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Little Dorrit (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her…
2
North & South (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of…
3
The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.
4
Sanditon (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
5
The War of the Worlds (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their…
6
Poldark (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved…
7
The Witness for the Prosecution (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.
8
Dickensian (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity…
9
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
10
Downton Abbey (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
11
War and Peace (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
12
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
13
Hornblower (1998)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
14
Shōgun (1980)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
15
Bleak House (2005)
★ 8/10Also drama
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich…
16
The Rainmaker (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two…
17
The Devil's Whore (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
The Devil's Whore is a four-part television drama serial produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, broadcast from 19 November to 10 December 2008. As the English Civil War rages, when both politics and religion…
18
The Musketeers (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be…
19
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS…
20
Doctor Thorne (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.