Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.
An orphan chess prodigy in the 1960s; the series that sold out chess sets.
Easy Company from Normandy to Berchtesgaden; Spielberg and Hanks' ten-part war.
Ten films for the Ten Commandments in one Warsaw housing estate; Kieslowski's TV masterpiece.
A marriage taken apart over six episodes; divorce rates rose in Sweden after it aired.
Five siblings and the house that will not let them go; the hidden ghosts in every frame.
Robert Durst on a hot mic: "killed them all, of course"; the true-crime series that solved a case.
A young Hasidic woman flees Brooklyn for Berlin; four episodes from Deborah Feldman's memoir.
A 13-year-old arrested for murder, four episodes each in a single take; the British series of 2025.
A road-rage incident between Steven Yeun and Ali Wong escalates for ten episodes.
Colin Farrell under prosthetics rises through Gotham's underworld after The Batman.
Ken Burns' nine episodes of photographs, letters and Shelby Foote; the documentary miniseries as form.
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.
Kate Winslet as a Pennsylvania detective in a town she cannot leave; the hoagie and the accent.
A comedian and his stalker, from the true story of Richard Gadd; the Netflix surprise of 2024.
Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney's novel in twelve half-hours.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
Amy Adams returns to her Missouri hometown to cover child murders; the last scene after the credits.
Tulsa 1921 and a masked police force; Damon Lindelof's sequel to the comic.
Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and a teddy bear at Oxford and Castle Howard; eleven hours of Waugh.
The Marines from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; the harder companion to Band of Brothers.
Colin Firth in a wet shirt; the BBC Austen that defined the genre.
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