My Mother and Other Strangers

Series Similar to My Mother and Other Strangers

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

1. 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.

2. Victoria

   2016 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Victoria comes to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne's public image and become ‘grandmother of Europe'. The first series of Victoria, will tell the story of the first years of the reign, beginning with the moment of the Queen's accession in 1837, following her first faltering steps from capricious, hormonal teenager with a weak grasp on her duties and responsibilities to her marriage to Albert. The show is a saga of interlocking circles – the circuits of power in Buckingham Palace and Westminster, the intermarrying royal houses of Europe and the scandals of the below-stairs palace staff. At the centre stands the new Queen – a spirited, passionate woman who must, somehow, become an enduring icon of stability and strength.

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. ANZAC Girls

   2014 · Drama, War, History · ended

   Recommended for similar War / History profile.

   Honouring the Centenary of the commencement of WW1, ANZAC Girls is a moving new six-part series based on the unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front.

5. The Crown

   2016 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile, highly rated (8.4).

   The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world -- Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street - and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

6. The Astronaut Wives Club

   2015 · Drama, History · ended

   Recommended for similar History profile.

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

7. The Long Road Home

   2017 · Drama, War, History · ended

   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".

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. World on Fire

    2019 · Drama, War, History · ended

    Recommended for similar War / History profile, hidden gem.

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