Ellery Queen è una serie televisiva americana di mistero poliziesco basata sul personaggio immaginario Ellery Queen. È andata in onda sulla NBC durante la stagione televisiva 1975-76 e ha come protagonisti Jim Hutton nel ruolo di Ellery Queen, David Wayne nel ruolo di suo padre, l'ispettore Richard Queen, e Tom Reese nel ruolo del sergente Velie. Creato dal team di scrittura/produzione di Richard Levinson e William Link, il personaggio del titolo "rompe" la quarta parete per chiedere al pubblico di considerare la loro soluzione.
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
Airwolf è una serie televisiva americana andata in onda dal 1984 al 1987. Il programma è incentrato su un elicottero militare ad alta tecnologia, chiamato in codice Airwolf, e sul suo equipaggio che intraprende varie missioni, molte delle quali di spionaggio, in tema di Guerra Fredda.
La serie è stata creata da Donald P. Bellisario. Le prime tre stagioni sono state interpretate da Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord e Jean Bruce Scott. Dopo la cancellazione della serie originale, una quarta stagione, con un cast completamente nuovo e con un budget molto più ridotto, è stata girata in Canada per USA Network.
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy was a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films, newsreels, interviews, and readings from novels and poems.
Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.
Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros. Television for ABC. The show was set in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio in 1945, 1946, and 1947. The show's theme song, "Accentuate the Positive", was written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon.
Forty-two episodes were broadcast in the United States over two seasons from 1991 to 1993. TV Guide, Abigail Van Buren, and fans showed determination in getting ABC to continue the show for a third season before it was cancelled.
The story of how the Battleship was used and not used as the ultimate weapon of war during its day up to its demise.
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.