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.
Colin Farrell under prosthetics rises through Gotham's underworld after The Batman.
Five siblings and the house that will not let them go; the hidden ghosts in every frame.
A young Hasidic woman flees Brooklyn for Berlin; four episodes from Deborah Feldman's memoir.
Robert Durst on a hot mic: "killed them all, of course"; the true-crime series that solved a case.
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.
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.
Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.
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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