Live-action television productions about or set during World War II.
For the other works, see Works Set in World War II.
Documentaries
- Apocalypse The Second World War
- De Nieuwe Orde
- Soviet Storm: World War II in the East
- The War, 14-hour Ken Burns miniseries which aired on PBS in 2007
- The World At War
- World War II in Colour
- WWII in HD
Fiction
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- Band of Brothers: Follows a paratrooper unit through France and into Germany.
- The Pacific: A Spiritual Successor following a group of US Marines through the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
- Masters of the Air: A Spiritual Successor following the 100th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces in the air campaign against Germany.
- Black Sheep Squadron
- Bomb Girls
- Das Boot, the sequel/spin-off series to the film of the same name.
- Brass: briefly, at the end of the last of the three seasons.
- Catch-22: A miniseries adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel.
- Changi: An Australian miniseries set in the titular Singaporean POW camp.
- Charité at War: Medical Drama about the doctors at a Real Life Berlin hospital, 1943-45.
- The Cherry Queen: A German Jewish woman who owns a cherry orchard decides to stay on her lands, and goes into clandestinity during the war.
- Colditz: A British series set in the titular Nazi POW castle.
- Combat!
- Czterej pancerni i pies (Four Tankmen and a Dog): A Polish series about the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army.
- Dad's Army
- Danger 5 is set in WWII in the 60s with dinosaurs and Japanese robot soldiers. It follows the Danger 5 team trying to kill Hitler.
- Danger: UXB
- Dieppe: Mini Series based on the failed Dieppe raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
- Doctor Who
- From the TV series, four stories — "The Curse of Fenric", "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances", "Victory of the Daleks" and "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe".
- On the Doctor Who Expanded Universe front, the novels Timewyrm: Exodus, Just War, Autumn Mist, The Turing Test, Illegal Alien and The Shadow in the Glass.
- Dogfights— a huge number of episodes focus on aerial and naval battles from both the European and Pacific theaters. Most of said episodes Season 1 focused on the Pacific, while Season 2's episodes during this war mainly focused on Europe.
- Enemy at the Door — the occupation of Guernsey
- Forever (2014) - Episode one and two have flashbacks set at the end of the war where Henry meets Abigail. Together they rescue a baby boy from a concentration camp and adopted him. This baby grows up to be Abe. It also shows Henry writing a note to Abigail about his secret and how they cannot be together. Despite Henry’s condition, Abigail tells him that she will never leave him.
- Foyle's War
- A French Village — Life in a French village under the German occupation with La Résistance and Les Collaborateurs featuring heavily.
- Garrison's Gorillas
- Ghosts (UK) — the flashbacks of the episodes Reddy Weddy and Carpe Diem takes place in this era.
- Goodnight Sweetheart features accidental time traveller Gary Sparrow finding a portal into 1940 London. Coming from 1993, Gary knows how the war ends and is able to capitalize on that, intimating that he works in intelligence and charming barmaid Phoebe with luxuries that she cannot otherwise get due to rationing.
- The Halcyon
- Hogan's Heroes
- Home Fires
- Homefront
- Island At War — the occupation of a fictional Channel Island
- It Ain't Half Hot, Mum — Brit Com about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India (later Burma).
- JAG has the episode "Each Of Us Angels" which focuses on a group of Navy nurses before and during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Also the episode "Port Chicago" is based on a real-life accident.
- Jericho (1966) was a short-lived series about a multinational trio of Allied spies behind enemy lines.
- Lazy Company, a (French) parody of films and series like Band of Brothers, running on Rule of Funny, and focusing on the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits of a US camp in Normandy.
- Life and Fate, a Russian 12-episode miniseries based on the Vasily Grossman novel about the battle of Stalingrad
- Matador (1978)
- McHale's Navy
- My Mother And Other Strangers — the home front in Northern Ireland, with American soldiers all over the place
- 1941 (2009) (television production) Soviet partisans fight the occupation of a small town.
- The Outer Limits (1995) episode "Tribunal", which is a Time Travel plot, partially takes place at a concentration camp in 1944.
- Private Schulz
- The Rat Patrol
- Ratched: The backstory of the titular Nurse Ratched has her serving as an Army nurse albeit one with fabricated credentials in the Philippines, specifically in Ormoc, Leyte province, during the Pacific theatre, presumably during the American Leyte landing.
- Roll Out!
- The Sanctuary episode "Normandy" takes place during World War II, in which the immortal Helen Magnus fought on the side of the Allies. They're trying to stop the Nazis from using a superabnormal to destroy the Operation Overlord invasion fleet before it can land.
- The Sarah Jane Adventures episode Lost in Time has Clyde on the shores of Britain in 1941, discovering a Nazi plot involving alien tech.
- SAS: Rogue Heroes depicts the origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during the Desert War.
- Seconds from Disaster has three episodes that cover the war: The sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck, The Attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- Secret Army
- Seventeen Moments of Spring—Soviet miniseries about a Russian deep-cover agent pretending to be an SS colonel in Berlin, April 1945
- Shield And Sword: Another series about Soviet spies.
- The Sinking of the Laconia
- A Small Light: Details the life of Dutch woman Miep Gies in Amsterdam as she helped Anne Frank's family to hide.
- Speer Und Er: Docudrama about Nazi Germany's Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer, who got appointed during the war and made sure Germany would adapt to a total war economy.
- Spyforce
- Tenko is set in a fictional prisoner of war camp.
- The Torchwood episode "Captain Jack Harkness" reveals where Jack, first introduced in Doctor Who's "The Empty Child", stole his identity from.
- Transatlantic (2023): A dramatization of the central figures of the Emergency Rescue Committee as they attempt to help refugees escape an increasingly tightening Marseille in 1940.
- The Terror: Infamy is a 10-episode miniseries set in the Japanese-American community, featuring relocation camps.
- The Twilight Zone (1959) had several episodes set in, or strongly relating to, WWII.
- Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, a German Mini Series set between the Eastern Front and Berlin.
- Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
- Wish Me Luck
- The first season of the Wonder Woman (1975) TV series.
- World on Fire
- X Company A Canadian series about a group of Allied spies sent behind enemy lines into France.
- Yanks Go Home, a '70s ITV sitcom about American pilots stationed in a small Lancashire town and clashing with the locals.
