Herman Wouk's The Winds of War

Series Similar to Herman Wouk's The Winds of War

If you enjoyed Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance

   1988 · Drama, Romance, War · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Romance / War profile, also on ABC.

   Filmed on location in ten countries, this extraordinary production is the largest and most ambitious undertaking in television and motion picture history. Featuring an all-star cast and spectacular reenactments of the Allied invasions at Normandy and the Philippines, Herman Wouk s classic novel is brought to life in an award-winning mini-series that vividly recreates one of history s most unforgettable chapters.

2. Holocaust

   1978 · Drama, War · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar War profile, highly rated (8.8).

   This groundbreaking miniseries explores a decade in the lives of the members of an extended Jewish family and a German lawyer who becomes a Nazi officer. As the horrific events of the holocaust unfold, all will face unthinkable decisions and fates. Featuring a superb cast that includes Meryl Streep, James Woods, Ian Holm, Michael Moriarty, Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh and Sam Wanamaker, the 1978 production won eight Emmys and two Golden Globes.

3. The Crimson Field

   2014 · Drama, War · ended91% match

   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.

4. Birdsong

   2012 · Drama, Romance, War · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Romance / War profile.

   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.

5. Bomb Girls

   2012 · Drama, Romance, War · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Romance / 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.

6. The Beautiful Lie

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on ABC.

   A contemporary re-imagining of Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' that explores over six episodes the different kinds of love and all that goes with it; family and loyalty, marriage and seduction, passion and obligation, jealousy and envy. This is a timeless love story that asks the questions; is there such thing as a soul mate? And would you destroy your life to be together? But it is more than a great love story. It's a sprawling saga of adultery, scandal, manners and mayhem — about the fates of three enmeshed families across three generations. (6 x 60min)

7. All the Light We Cannot See

   2023 · Drama, Romance, War · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Romance / War profile.

   In the final days of WWII, the paths of a blind French girl and a German soldier collide. 

8. Father Christmas

   2016 · Drama, Romance · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   The Father Christmas film series is a trilogy, based on the novels of Robin Jones Gunn. The films follow the story of Miranda Chester, as she visits the town of Carlton Heath, Vermont, in search of the truth about her parentage. Whilst there she meets, and falls in love with, local lawyer/hotelier Ian McKendrick. 

9. Pride and Prejudice

   1995 · Drama, Romance · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   Re-live the romance and drama of Andrew Davies' lavish adaptation, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

10. Road No.1

    2010 · Drama, Romance, War · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Romance / War profile, hidden gem.

    Based on the events occurring around "Route 1", which lies between Seoul and Pyongyang. The story about Officer Lee Jang Woo who finds himself in a war that he is not prepared for in order to protect Soo Yeon, the woman he has known and loved since youth. However, he is able to put it past him and he displays extraordinary survival skills, friendship, cooperation and ideology under brutal war conditions. Soo Yeon awaits Jang Woo's return, but eventually gets engaged to Tae Ho. When Jang Woo returns alive, however, Tae Ho discovers Jang Woo and Soo Yeon's unbreakable bond and feels betrayed.