ANZAC Girls

Series Similar to ANZAC Girls

If you enjoyed ANZAC Girls, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. World on Fire

   2019 · Drama, War, History · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   Three young people are in the eye of the storm as World War II explodes around them. Nothing can survive unchanged. Not even love.

2. Gallipoli

   2015 · Drama, War · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar War profile, hidden gem.

   As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.

3. Mercy Street

   2016 · Drama, War · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar War profile.

   Based on real events, Mercy Street takes viewers beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history.Set in Virginia in the spring of 1862, the series follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the conflict; Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a naive young Confederate belle. The two collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been taken over and transformed into a Union Army Hospital in Alexandria, a border town between North and South and the longest-occupied Confederate city of the war. Ruled under martial law, Alexandria is now the melting pot of the region, filled with soldiers, civilians, female volunteers, doctors, wounded fighting men from both sides, runaway slaves, prostitutes, speculators and spies.The intersection of North and South within the confines of a small occupied town creates a rich world that is chaotic, conflicted, corrupt, dynamic and even hopeful — a cauldron within which these characters strive, fight, love, laugh, betray, sacrifice and, at times, act like scoundrels. This series is not about battles and glory, it's about the drama and unexpected humor of everyday life behind the front lines. It's a fresh twist on an iconic story, one that resonates with larger themes we still struggle with today.

4. TURN: Washington's Spies

   2014 · Drama, War · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar War profile.

   Turn: Washington's Spies takes viewers into the stirring and treacherous world of the Revolutionary War and introduces Abraham Woodhull who, after aligning with a group of childhood friends, forms the Culper Ring--America's first spy ring.

5. Masters of the Air

   2024 · Drama, War, History · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   Masters of the Air follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the "Bloody Hundredth") as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler's Third Reich, is at the heart of Masters of the Air. Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.

6. SAS: Rogue Heroes

   2022 · Drama, War, History · returning95% match

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   Who dares wins. The adrenaline-fuelled origins of the fearless, reckless Special Forces unit, its legend forged among the mayhem of WWII.

7. Parade's End

   2012 · Drama, War, History · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   In the dying days of the Edwardian Empire, Christopher Tietjens enters into a destructive marriage with the beautiful but cruel socialite Sylvia.

8. The Tattooist of Auschwitz

   2024 · Drama, History · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar History profile.

   The Tattooist of Auschwitz tells the powerful true-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who is given the job of tattooing identification numbers on fellow prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War Two. One day, he meets Gita while she is waiting in line to be tattooed. They experience love at first sight, and so begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust; a tale of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances.

9. The Long Road Home

   2017 · Drama, War, History · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   Based on Martha Raddatz's bestseller, The Long Road Home chronicles the events of April 4th, 2004, when a platoon was ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, in an attack that came to be known as "Black Sunday".

10. The Devil's Whore

    2008 · Drama, War, History · ended92% match

    Recommended for similar War / History profile.

    Colourful four-part drama about the seismic events of 17th-century England, when political disobedience turned to revolution and bloody civil war.