Last Updated on July 27, 2025
Which Period Dramas are New on Prime Video?
Wondering what you should watch on Prime Video? We’ve gathered up the period dramas that are newly included with your US Prime Video membership in June, July, and August 2025.
Then, we share the historical / costume / period dramas that are newly available on Prime Video Add-On Channels and titles that are now available to buy or rent, as well as movies and TV series in the genre that are being released to DVD this summer.
Check this list throughout the season; we’ll update all the sections (alphabetically) as more titles become available. If some of these titles look familiar, it’s because they were previously available with Prime Video, were pulled off, and now they are back.
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To watch the trailers for the movies and TV series on this list, read further descriptions and add them to your watchlist, just click on “Watch the TRAILER” and “Add to your WATCHLIST.”
This is a US-based list, but if you live in Canada or the UK, you can also use our links to check availability in your country.
Finally, we list some newly added non-period movies and series like award-winning films and breezy romances that you may also like, that are included with your Amazon Prime Video membership.
From British costume dramas to sweeping romantic epics, there’s a lot here by the end of the season; we hope this list helps you discover more period dramas to love.
Also see the list of Period Dramas New on Netflix Summer 2025 and the list of period dramas currently on BritBox and Acorn TV.
Those who are new here should know that Willow and Thatch also has a special section for period dramas that have been added recently or are coming to different streaming services. See the “New to Streaming” drop-down menu at the top of the page.
Period Dramas Added to Prime Video: June 2025
Newly available historical, costume and period dramas (movies and TV series) that are included with your Prime Video membership.
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum displays a natural talent for publicity and promotion, selling lottery tickets by age 12. After trying his hands at various jobs, P.T. turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, Barnum’s mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth. Featuring nine original songs written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and an original musical orchestral score composed by John Debney and Joseph Trapanese.
Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya.
Rated PG
Available June 1
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Academy Award® winner* Clint Eastwood directs the untold story of Japanese soldiers defending their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defense beyond sheer will and the terrain of Iwo Jima itself, the tactics of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi and his men transform what might have been swift defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic combat. Their sacrifices, struggles, courage and compassion live on in the taut, gripping historical drama which won – among 4 Academy Award nominations* including Best Picture – the Oscar for Best Sound Editing (2006).
Starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Yuki Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Watanabe, Nae.
Rated R for graphic war violence
Available June 1
Nosferatu (2024)
An ancient Transylvanian vampire becomes obsessed with a haunted young woman in 19th-century Germany, causing untold horror in its wake. In the 1830s, estate agent Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Count Orlok, a prospective client. In his absence, Hutter’s new bride, Ellen, is left under the care of their friends, Friedrich and Anna Harding. Plagued by horrific visions and an increasing sense of dread, Ellen soon encounters an evil force that’s far beyond her control.
Starring Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin.
Rated 18+
Available June 27
The Trip to Bountiful (2014)
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home. When Ludie and Jessie Mae discover she is gone, they call in law enforcement to help, but Mrs. Watts is one step ahead of them and convinces the local sheriff to help her on her journey home to Bountiful. Screenplay by Horton Foote, based on his play.
Starring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, Keke Palmer, Vanessa Williams, Clancy Brown.
Rated 13+
Available June 29
Upstairs Downstairs (Season 1)
Six years after parlormaid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, fate brings her back, as housekeeper to its new owners. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new ‘downstairs’ family to help run the elegance of the ‘upstairs’ world.
Starring Keeley Hawes, Eileen Atkins, Art Malik, Jean Marsh, Adrian Scarborough, Neil Jackson, Helen Bradbury, Claire Foy, Ed Stoppard.
Rated TV-G
Available June 30
When Calls the Heart (Season 1)
In his long-running Hallmark family period drama series inspired by Janette Oke’s books about the Canadian West, Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher accustomed to high society, She experiences culture shock, challenge and new friendships when she gets her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small mining frontier town.
Starring Erin Krakow, Pascale Hutton, Jack Wagner, Kavan Smith, Martin Cummins, Loretta Walsh, Gracyn Shinye.
Rated ALL
Available June 1
The following period-set movies and series (and period-inspired titles) are also newly available and included with your Prime Video membership in June 2025. Click on the titles for more information, to watch trailers where available, and to start streaming full movies or episodes:
June 1: The Aviator (1985), Billy Bathgate (1991), Brokeback Mountain (2006) Capote (2006), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Kings of the Evening (2008), Life (1999), Mississippi Burning (1989), Nanny Mcphee (2006), Platoon (1987), Return Of The Magnificent Seven (1966), Swing Kids (1993), The Scarlet Letter (1995), Valkyrie (2008). June 5: Gallipoli (2015), Inherit The Wind (1999). June 6: The Pagan King (2018). June 8: Far Haven (2023), Little Dorrit (1988). June 10: High Ground (2020). June 15: Lolita (1998), The Skin of Sorrow (2010), The Chosen: Last Supper (Season 5). June 29: A French Village (Season 1), TURN: Washington’s Spies (Season 1), A Knight’s War (2025).
For a limited time, watch the first episode of Nautilus (Season 1) for free: Nemo steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian ocean with a ragtag crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company. Add to your WATCHLIST
Period Dramas Added to Prime Video: July 2025
Newly available historical, costume and period dramas (movies and TV series) that are included with your Prime Video membership.
A Small Light (Season 1)
The inspiring, real-life story of twentysomething Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls (Otto Frank, his wife Edith and daughters Anne and Margot as well as four others) in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
Starring Bel Powley, Billie Boullet, Joe Cole, Liev Schreiber, Andy Nyman, Eleanor Tomlinson, Noah Taylor.
Rated TV-14
Available July 1
Fiddler On the Roof (1971)
The Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical about life among the Jewish community of a pre-revolutionary Russian village. A poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has a word with God.
Starring Chaim Topol, Rosalind Harris, Leonard Frey, Patience Collier, Norma Crane, Barry Dennen, Otto Diamant.
Rated G
Available July 1
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Set in 1855 Victorian England, a group of petty thieves scheme to hold-up a moving British Army payroll train to steal a shipment of gold bars. A masterful crime caper from legendary writer/director Michael Crichton (Westworld) based on history’s first train robbery. Sean Connery is Edward Pierce, who conceives the brilliant plan, but to pull off the most daring heist in history, Pierce must join forces with a safecracker and his own girlfriend in a series of intricately plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve, camaraderie and larcenous skill.
Starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb.
Rated PG
Available July 1
Hidden Figures (2017)
An incredible & inspiring untold true story about three women at NASA who were instrumental in one of history’s greatest operations – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The film recounts the true story of the African-American mathematics genius, Katherine Johnson, and her two fellow colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who helped NASA win the Space Race. Using their mathematical calculations, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth.
Starring Taraji Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons.
Rated PG
Available July 1
Jamestown (Season 1)
1619. For 12 years, Jamestown has been populated only by men, but now, the first women, including Alice, Verity, and Jocelyn, land in this breathtaking wilderness, thrust into a new world of love, desire, power, and survival.
Starring Burn Gorman, Max Beesley, Jason Flemying, Dean Lennox Kelly, Naomi Battrick.
Rated TV-14
Available July 1
Penny Dreadful (Seasons 1 – 3)
An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga, “Penny Dreadful” completely reinvents literature’s most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul – even as they grapple with their own monstrous temptations.
Starring Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, Harry Treadaway, Josh Hartnett, Danny Sapani, Simon Russell Beale, Douglas Hodge.
Rated TV-MA
Available July 6
The following period-set movies and series (and period-inspired titles) are also newly available and included with your Prime Video membership in July 2025. Click on the titles for more information, to watch trailers where available, and to start streaming full movies or episodes:
July 1: A Bridge Too Far (1977), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Gladiator (2000), Hart’s War (2002), Hoodlum (1997), Paths Of Glory (1957), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Red River (1948), The Horse Soldiers (1959), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Wild Bill (1995), Windtalkers (2002), Yentl (1984). July 3: The Buccaneers (1956). July 7: Forsaken (2014), Coming Through (1985). July 8: The Weather in the Streets (1983). July 13: The Second Sun (2018).
For a limited time, watch The Buccaneers (Season 1) for free: A group of American girls travel to 1870s London. Sent for husbands and status, their hearts are set on more than that. Add to your WATCHLIST
For a limited time, watch Chapelwaite (Season 1) for free: Set in the 1850s, the series follows Captain Charles Boone who relocates his family to their ancestral Maine home. Charles has to soon confront his family’s sordid history and fight to end the darkness that has plagued them for generations. Add to your WATCHLIST
Period Dramas Added to Prime Video: August 2025
Newly available historical, costume and period dramas (movies and TV series) that are included with your Prime Video membership.
Coming soon.
New to Prime Video Channels & Purchases
This section contains period dramas added in June, July, and August 2025 (movies and TV series) that are included with add-on Prime Video Channels, are newly available to buy or rent, or have had a significant price cut. Use the links below to sign up for a free trial of a channel, add a title to your watchlist or check prices.
Becoming Elizabeth (Season 1): “Becoming Elizabeth” is the untold story of England’s most iconic Queen; long before she ascended the throne. Henry VIII’s death throws a young orphan Elizabeth Tudor into the unpredictable and dangerous English court. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 11
Blithe Spirit (2020): Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) is struggling with catastrophic writer’s block and a stressful deadline for his first screenplay. His picture perfect second wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focussed in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood. Charles’ desperate search for inspiration leads him to invite Madame Arcati (Judi Dench), a medium recently exposed as a fraud, to perform a séance in their home. They all get more than they bargained for when Arcati accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife: the fiery and jealous Elvira (Leslie Mann) who embarks on a mission to kill Charles so she can spend eternity with him which leads to an increasingly comical and deadly love triangle. Add to your WATCHLIST Available in July with AMC+ Prime Video Add-On Channel
The Buccaneers (Season 2): In the first season of The Buccaneers, a group of fun-loving young American girls exploded into the tightly corseted London of the 1870s … setting hearts racing and kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Now the Buccaneers are no longer the invaders — England is their home. In fact, they’re practically running the place. All of the girls have been forced to grow up and now have to fight to be heard, as they wrestle with romance, lust, jealousy, births and deaths … themes consuming all women of any age, no matter what year it is. Last time we got a taste of England. This time we’re in for a veritable feast. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 18 with Apple TV+ Prime Video Add-On Channel
The Gilded Age (Season 3): The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic and social change, when empires were built, but no victory came without sacrifice. Following the Opera War, the old guard is weakened and the Russells stand poised to take their place at the head of society. Bertha sets her sights on a prize that would elevate the family to unimaginable heights while George risks everything on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry — if it doesn’t ruin him first. Across the street, the Brook household is thrown into chaos as Agnes refuses to accept Ada’s new position as lady of the house. Peggy meets a handsome doctor from Newport whose family is less than enthusiastic about her career. As all of New York hastens toward the future, their ambition may come at the cost of what they truly hold dear. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 22 with Max Prime Video Add-On Channel
The Golden Swan (Season 2): The glamorous Golden Swan department store opens its doors as war threatens to tear the city apart. Amid forbidden love, dangerous secrets, and rising tensions, a young woman on the run finds herself at the heart of a fight for survival and hope. From Walter Presents, in Czech with English subtitles. Add to your WATCHLIST Available August 1 with PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Add-On Channel
Grantchester (Season 10): Alphy has found a home in Grantchester, and a best friend and his intellectual equal in Geordie. Love proves more elusive, until a case throws him in the path of romance. But before he can let anyone else in, he must confront truths about himself. Geordie, meanwhile, wrestles with his expectations for his own son, as Cathy takes steps to better her career, aided by Mrs. Chapman. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 15 with PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Add-On Channel
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024): Period-inspired. A young woman in Paris, who dreams of becoming a successful writer and experiencing true love, may finally have her Jane Austen moment… Add to your WATCHLIST Available July 1
Joan of Arc (2019): In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay true to her mission. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 9
Nautilus (Season 1): Nemo steals a formidable prototype submarine and escapes into the Indian ocean with a ragtag crew, determined to enact revenge against the ruthless East India Mercantile Company. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 28 with AMC+ Prime Video Add-On Channel
Outlander: Blood of My Blood (2025): “Outlander: Blood of My Blood” is a romantic saga that unfolds across time. From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, intersecting in surprising and unforeseen ways. Add to your WATCHLIST Available August 8 with Starz Prime Video Add-On Channel
Outrageous (Season 1): Based on the story of the Mitford sisters, six sisters who refused to play by the rules and whose often-scandalous lives made headlines around the world. Set in the 1930s, it is a tale of betrayal, scandal, heartache and even imprisonment. Add to your WATCHLIST Read our REVIEW Available June 18 with BritBox Prime Video Add-On Channel
The Outcasts (1983): The odd, intense daughter of an impoverished rural family in early 1800s Ireland is accused of witchcraft after she’s seen consorting in the woods with a conjurer and fiddle player named Scarf Michael. The film plays like an ancient ballad somehow captured on film, filled with the sorcery of earth and woods, musicians hooded in pagan straw masks and skirts, prejudice, myth and religion – and the peat and the mud and the bone-chilling cold. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 9 with BritBox Prime Video Add-On Channel
Paradise (Season 8): Paradise faces bankruptcy as love triangles, betrayals, and power plays erupt behind the scenes. While Umberto schemes and Vittorio fights to save the business, loyalties shift, truths surface, and the future of Paradise–and those within it–hangs by a thread. From Walter Presents, in Italian with English subtitles. Add to your WATCHLIST Available July 18 with PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Add-On Channel
The Rite Of Passage (2011): A warm-hearted humorous story about growing up in the first turbulent years of post-war Poland. Ludwik starts one of the best high schools in Krakow. His life changes with a growing storm of conflicting emotions. First love infatuations, a rebellion against unjust authorities and the desire to imitate his idol, Marek, an older boy who fought in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Add to your WATCHLIST Available in June
Ru (2023): Based on the Governor General’s Award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam, before landing in Quebec. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 10
Sinners (2025): Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. “You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.” Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta. Add to your WATCHLIST Available July 4 with Max Prime Video Add-On Channel
Six Minutes to Midnight (2021): UK, Aug. 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear from a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller (Eddie Izzard, Kaos) gets the job six days later, secretly trying to find out what happened. Dame Judi Dench (Belfast), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!) and Nigel Lindsay (Victoria) also star. Add to your WATCHLIST Available in July with AMC+ Prime Video Add-On Channel
Soviet Jeans (Season 1): In the late 1970s – at a time when the fiercest propaganda against Western culture was being waged throughout the USSR – an ardent rock and roll fan sets up a successful and illegal underground jeans factory in a Latvian psychiatric hospital. In Latvian with English subtitles. Add to your WATCHLIST (coming soon) Available August 8 with PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Add-On Channel
Velvet (Season 3): Spain’s blockbuster TV series takes you to the golden age of haute couture – late 1950s Madrid – where everyone would like to shop at least once. In Season 3, Velvet Galleries continues to be ground zero for money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, and counter-plots involving its owners, customers, and residential employees. Looming over all is the love story between Alberto and Ana. Torn between family obligations and the cry of his heart, Alberto resolves to leave his wife and commit to Ana. However, a surprise piece of news wrecks their plans From Walter Presents, in Spanish with English subtitles. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 27 with PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Add-On Channel
We Were Dangerous (2024): Nellie, Daisy and Lou attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island in 1954. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their friendship but this is challenged when the school’s matron divides them. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 9
Wild Nights With Emily (2018): Molly Shannon stars as Emily Dickinson in Wild Nights with Emily, a humorous and bold take on this iconic American poet. Add to your WATCHLIST Available June 19
New Period Drama DVD Releases
This section contains a selection of historical, costume, and period dramas and other titles of interest that are being released this season to DVD and Blu-ray.
Period drama DVD releases this summer include 1923: A Yellowstone Origin Story (Season 2), Masterpiece Mystery!: Grantchester (Season 10), Call the Midwife (Season 14), Masterpiece: Wolf Hall (The Complete Series), Outlander (Season 7), Compensation (The Criterion Collection), 30th Anniversary Sense and Sensibility (1995) 4K UHD, and The Phoenician Scheme (2025).
Other Shows You May Also Like
This section contains a curated list of movies and TV series newly included on Prime, that are NOT period dramas. We think fans of period and costume dramas will enjoy them just the same. Follow the links to watch the trailers. You may also like:
Available in June: June 1: At First Sight (1999), Benny & Joon (1993), The Birdcage (1996), Six Degees of Separation (1993). June 5: England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey (2018), The History Boys (2006). June 8: Nose (2021). June 21: Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams (2022). June 29: The Conversation (1974), 3 Generations (2017).
Available in July: July 1: A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Baby Boom (1987), Mad Max (1980), Meet the Fockers (2004), Meet the Parents (2000), Mystic Pizza (1988), No Country for Old Men (2007), Rocky (1976), Salt (2010), The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005), The Apartment (1960), The Bounty Hunter (2010), The Hustle (2019), The Informant! (2009), The Perfect Storm (2000), Witness For The Prosecution (1957). July 30: War of The Worlds (2005).
Available in August: Coming soon.
If you enjoyed this post, be sure to see The Period Films List, with the best British period dramas, historical and costume movies and TV series sorted by era.
