# The best British miniseries

From I, Claudius and Brideshead Revisited to Wolf Hall and Small Axe: the best British limited series, from Collider, BritishTV.com and Doux Reviews.

- 1936 votes · 15 items
- Dec 11, 2023 · Madison Gill
- https://even.best/en/l/3792/the-best-british-miniseries

## Top 15

1. **I, Claudius (1976)** (166 · ▲185 ▼19) — Derek Jacobi and the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. **Pride and Prejudice (1995)** (144 · ▲159 ▼15) — Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in Jane Austen.
3. **Brideshead Revisited (1981)** (126 · ▲144 ▼18) — Jeremy Irons and the Flyte family, from Evelyn Waugh.
4. **Our Friends in the North (1996)** (121 · ▲137 ▼16) — Four Newcastle friends from 1964 to 1995.
5. **Wolf Hall (2015)** (103 · ▲118 ▼15) — Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell; Golden Globe winner.
6. **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)** (100 · ▲122 ▼22) — Alec Guinness as George Smiley.
7. **The Singing Detective (1986)** (84 · ▲102 ▼18) — Dennis Potter's musical mystery in a hospital bed.
8. **Bleak House (2005)** (79 · ▲96 ▼17) — Gillian Anderson in Dickens.
9. **Edge of Darkness (1985)** (78 · ▲93 ▼15) — Bob Peck investigates his daughter's death and a nuclear conspiracy.
10. **The Night Manager (2016)** (75 · ▲91 ▼16) — Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, from John le Carré.
11. **Small Axe (2020)** (60 · ▲87 ▼27) — Steve McQueen's five films about London's West Indian community.
12. **Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)** (47 · ▲76 ▼29) — Unemployed Liverpool workers under Thatcher.
13. **The Missing (2014)** (47 · ▲70 ▼23) — A father searches for his son lost in France.
14. **And Then There Were None (2015)** (46 · ▲73 ▼27) — Agatha Christie's island of ten strangers.
15. **Chernobyl (2019)** (44 · ▲75 ▼31) — The 1986 disaster, co-produced by Sky.

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