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. The Book of Negroes

   2015 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile, hidden gem.

   Abducted from her village in West Africa, eleven-year-old Aminata Diallo is forced into a slave coffle and must endure a horrific ocean crossing. She is brought to a South Carolina plantation where she makes herself useful by using midwifery skills learned at her mother's side, all the while keeping the attentions of her jealous slave master, Robinson Appleby, at bay. Soon after Aminata reencounters Chekura, a fellow slave from West Africa, they are married in a clandestine ceremony. When their first baby is brutally abducted and sold by Appleby she vows to return one day to her homeland.

2. The Crimson Field

   2014 · Drama, War · ended

   Recommended for similar War profile, hidden gem.

   This series follows a team of doctors, nurses, and female volunteers working in a front-line tented field hospital during the First World War. It's a daily battle to keep the soldiers well enough to fight. Low staff numbers cause the hospital to become more and more dependent upon its female volunteers, though some people see these women as more of a threat than anything else.

3. Atlantic Crossing

   2020 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile, hidden gem.

   1940. Norway is occupied by Nazi Germany. Crown Princess Märtha and her children find shelter as political refugees in the White House. Her presence in Washington soon influences President Roosevelt's views on the tragic events unfolding in Europe and eventually changes the dynamics of U.S. politics significantly. What starts as an affair turns into love and turmoil when Märtha speaks out publicly against the Nazi tyranny. In an attempt to fight for her country, she puts her marriage at risk and convinces the President to support Norway – a first step in the struggle that will lead to the U.S. joining the War. However, Märtha's actions cause her to make many enemies, some of them even closer than she thinks: within the walls of the White House.

4. Gallipoli

   2015 · Drama, War · ended

   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.

5. The Astronaut Wives Club

   2015 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, also on ABC.

   The Astronaut Wives Club tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history.

6. Our Girl

   2014 · Drama, War, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar War profile.

   Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.

7. The Tattooist of Auschwitz

   2024 · Drama, History · ended

   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.

8. Bomb Girls

   2012 · Drama, Romance, War · ended

   Recommended for similar War profile.

   Set in the 1940s, Bomb Girls tells the remarkable stories of the women who risked their lives in a munitions factory building bombs for the Allied forces fighting on the European front. The series delves into the lives of these exceptional women – peers, friends and rivals – who find themselves thrust into new worlds and changed profoundly as they are liberated from their home and social restrictions.

9. Birdsong

   2012 · Drama, Romance, War · ended

   Recommended for similar War profile, hidden gem.

   Epic love story set against the First World War, based on Sebastian Faulks' novel about a soldier who finds himself fighting in the area where he had an illicit affair before the war.

10. Parade's End

    2012 · Drama, War, History · ended

    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.