Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series / Media Notes

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A list of television series that won and were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

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1970s

1973^noteas Outstanding Drama/Comedy - Limited Episodes: Tom Brown's Schooldays (PBS)
- The Last of the Mohicans (CBS)
- The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (CBS)
1974^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Columbo (NBC)
- The Blue Knight (NBC)
- McCloud (NBC)
1975^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (CBS)
- Columbo (NBC)
- McCloud (NBC)
1976^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Upstairs Downstairs (PBS)
- The Adams Chronicles (PBS)
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (PBS)
- The Law (NBC)
- Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC)
1977^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Roots (ABC)
- The Adams Chronicles (PBS)
- Captains and the Kings (NBC)
- Madame Bovary (PBS)
- The Moneychangers (NBC)
1978^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Holocaust (NBC)
- Anna Karenina (PBS)
- I, Claudius (PBS)
- King (NBC)
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors (ABC)
1979^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Roots: The Next Generation (ABC)
- Backstairs at the White House (NBC)
- Blind Ambition (CBS)

1980s

1980^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Edward and Mrs. Simpson (Syndicated)
- Disraeli: Portrait of a Romantic (PBS)
- The Duchess of Duke Street (PBS)
- The Scarlett O'Hara War (NBC)
1981^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Shogun (NBC)
- East of Eden (ABC)
- Masada (ABC)
- Rumpole of the Bailey (PBS)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (PBS)
1982^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Marco Polo (NBC)
- Brideshead Revisited (PBS)
- Flickers (PBS)
- Oppenheimer (PBS)
- A Town Like Alice (PBS)
1983^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Syndicated)
- Smiley's People (Syndicated)
- The Thorn Birds (ABC)
- To Serve Them All My Days (PBS)
- The Winds of War (ABC)
1984^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Concealed Enemies (PBS)
- Chiefs (CBS)
- George Washington (CBS)
- Nancy Astor (PBS)
- Reilly, Ace of Spies (PBS)
1985^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: The Jewel in the Crown (PBS)
- Ellis Island (CBS)
- Robert Kennedy and His Times (CBS)
- Space (CBS)
- A Woman of Substance (OPT)
1986^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Peter the Great (NBC)
- Dress Gray (NBC)
- The Long, Hot Summer (NBC)
- Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (PBS)
- On Wings of Eagles (NBC)
1987^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: A Year in the Life (NBC)
- Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (NBC)
- Nutcracker: Money, Madness, and Murder (NBC)
- Out on a Limb (ABC)
- The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (NBC)
1988^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC)
- Baby M (ABC)
- Billionaire Boys Club (NBC)
- Lincoln (NBC)
- Rumpole of the Bailey (PBS)
1989^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: War and Remembrance (ABC)
- I Know My First Name Is Steven (NBC)
- Lonesome Dove (CBS)
- A Perfect Spy (PBS)
- The Women of Brewster Place (ABC)

1990s

1990^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (NBC)
- Blind Faith (NBC)
- Family of Spies (CBS)
- The Kennedys of Massachusetts (ABC)
- Small Sacrifices (ABC)
1991^noteas Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special and Miniseries: Separate But Equal (ABC)
- Decoration Day NBC)
- The Josephine Baker Story (HBO)
- Paris Trout (Showtime)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall (CBS)
- Switched at Birth (NBC)
1992^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: A Woman Named Jackie (NBC)
- The Burden of Proof (ABC)
- Cruel Doubt (NBC)
- Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel (NBC)
- In a Child's Name (CBS)
1993^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Prime Suspect (PBS)
- Queen (CBS)
- Family Pictures (ABC)
- The Jacksons: An American Dream (ABC)
- Sinatra (CBS)
1994^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Prime Suspect (PBS)
- Tales of the City (PBS)
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (CBS)
- The Stand (1994) (ABC)
- World War II: When Lions Roared (NBC)
1995^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Joseph (TNT)
- Buffalo Girls (CBS)
- Children of the Dust (CBS)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (PBS)
- A Woman of Independent Means (NBC)
1996^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Gulliver's Travels (1996) (NBC)
- Andersonville (TNT)
- Hiroshima (Showtime)
- Moses (TNT)
- Pride and Prejudice (A&E)
1997^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Prime Suspect (PBS)
- In Cold Blood (CBS)
- The Last Don (CBS)
- The Odyssey (NBC)
- The Shining (ABC)
1998^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: From the Earth to the Moon (HBO)
- More Tales of the City (Showtime)
- George Wallace (TNT)
- Merlin (NBC)
- Moby-Dick (USA Network)
1999^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Horatio Hornblower (A&E)
- Great Expectations (PBS)
- Joan of Arc (CBS)
- The '60s (NBC)
- The Temptations (NBC)

2000s

2000^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: The Corner (HBO)
- Arabian Nights (ABC)
- The Beach Boys: An American Family (ABC)
- Jesus (CBS)
- P.T. Barnum (A&E)
2001^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Anne Frank: The Whole Story (ABC)
- Further Tales of the City (Showtime)
- Horatio Hornblower (A&E)
- Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (ABC)
- Nuremberg (TNT)
2002^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Band of Brothers (HBO)
- Dinotopia (ABC)
- The Mists of Avalon (TNT)
- Shackleton (A&E)
2003^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Taken (Syfy)
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil (CBS)
- Napoleon (A&E)
2004^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Angels in America (HBO)
- American Family (PBS)
- Horatio Hornblower (A&E)
- Prime Suspect (PBS)
- Traffic (USA Network)
2005^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: The Lost Prince (PBS)
- Elvis (CBS)
- Empire Falls (HBO)
- The 4400 (USA Network)
2006^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Elizabeth I (HBO)
- Bleak House (PBS)
- Into the West (TNT)
- Sleeper Cell (Showtime)
2007^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Broken Trail (AMC)
- Prime Suspect (PBS)
- The Starter Wife (USA Network)
2008^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: John Adams (HBO)
- The Andromeda Strain (A&E)
- Cranford (PBS)
- Tin Man (Syfy)
2009^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Little Dorrit (PBS)
- Generation Kill (HBO)

2010s

2010^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: The Pacific (HBO)
- Return to Cranford (PBS)
2011^noteas Outstanding Miniseries or Movie: Downton Abbey (PBS)
- Cinema Verite (HBO)
- The Kennedys (Reelz)
- Mildred Pierce (HBO)
- The Pillars of the Earth (Starz)
- Too Big to Fail (HBO)
2012^noteas Outstanding Miniseries or Movie: Game Change (HBO)
- American Horror Story: Murder House (FX)
- Hatfields & McCoys (The History Channel)
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (HBO)
- Luther (BBC America)
- Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (PBS)
2013^noteas Outstanding Miniseries or Movie: Behind the Candelabra (HBO)
- American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
- The Bible (The History Channel)
- Political Animals (USA Network)
- Top of the Lake (Sundance TV)
2014^noteas Outstanding Miniseries: Fargo (FX)
- American Horror Story: Coven (FX)
- Bonnie & Clyde (Lifetime)
- Luther (BBC America)
- Treme (HBO)
- The White Queen (Starz)
2015^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Olive Kitteridge (HBO)
- American Crime (ABC)
- American Horror Story: Freak Show (FX)
- The Honourable Woman (Sundance TV)
- Wolf Hall (PBS)
2016^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: The People v. O. J. Simpson (FX)
- American Crime (ABC)
- Fargo (FX)
- The Night Manager (AMC)
- Roots (The History Channel)
2017^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Big Little Lies (HBO)
- Fargo (FX)
- Feud (FX)
- Genius (Nat Geo)
- The Night Of (HBO)
2018^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX)
- The Alienist (TNT)
- Genius (Nat Geo)
- Godless (Netflix)
- Patrick Melrose (Showtime)
2019^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Chernobyl (HBO)
- Escape at Dannemora (Showtime)
- Fosse/Verdon (FX)
- Sharp Objects (HBO)
- When They See Us (Netflix)

2020s

2020^noteas Outstanding Limited Series: Watchmen (HBO)
- Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)
- Mrs. America (FX)
- Unbelievable (Netflix)
- Unorthodox (Netflix)
2021^noteas Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series: The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
- I May Destroy You (HBO)
- Mare of Easttown (HBO)
- The Underground Railroad (Prime Video)
- WandaVision (Disney+)
2022: The White Lotus (HBO)
- Dopesick (Hulu)
- The Dropout (Hulu)
- Inventing Anna (Netflix)
- Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
2023: Beef (Netflix)
- Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
- Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video)
- Fleishman Is In Trouble (FX)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+

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