- Wallenberg, a hero's story, a Dick Berg-Stonehenge production ; producer, Richard Irving ; teleplay by Gerald Green ; directed by Lamont Johnson
- Hemingway, a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns
- Count Dracula, British Broadcasting Corporation ; produced by Morris Barry ; adapted by Gerald Savory ; directed by Philip Saville
- John Adams, HBO Films presents a Playtone production ; produced by David Coatsworth, Steven Shareshian ; written by Kirk Ellis and Michelle Ashford ; directed by Tom Hooper
- The scarlet letter, a WGBH/Boston production ; produced and directed by Rick Hauser ; adapted for television by Allan Knee and Alvin Sapinsley
- The Duchess of Duke Street, the complete collection, created and produced by John Hawkesworth ; a production of the BBC and Time-Life Films
- Mare of Easttown, directed by Craig Zobel
- Parade's end, HBO miniseries presents ; in association with the BBC ; a Mammoth Screen production ; written by Tom Stoppard ; produced by David Parfitt and Selwyn Roberts ; directed by Susanna White
- Les misérables, producer, Chris Carey ; written by Andrew Davies ; director, Tom Shankland
- Spies of Warsaw, BBC ; Apple Film Productions ; Arte France ; Fresh
- Roots, History presents ; an A+E Studios production ; in association with Marc Toberoff Productions and the Wolper Organization ; produced by Alissa M. Kantrow ; teleplay by Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal (nights 1 and 4), Alison McDonald (night 2), Charles Murray (night 3) ; directed by Phillip Noyce (night 1), Mario Van Peebles (night 2), Thomas Carter (night 3), Bruce Beresford (night 4)
- Salem's lot, director, Tobe Hooper
- Streets of Laredo
- Middlemarch, produced by Louis Marks ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Anthony Page
- Hatfields & McCoys, History & Thinkfactory Media present ; a Leslie Greif production ; producers, Kevin Costner, Darrell Fetty, & Herb Nanas ; screenplay by Ted Mann (Nights 1-3) and Ronald Parker (Nights 2-3) ; directed by Kevin Reynolds
- Show me a hero, HBO Miniseries presents a Blown Deadline production ; written by William F. Zorzi & David Simon ; directed by Paul Haggis
- The Men who built America, producers, Paul Cabana, Russel McCarrol ; director, Ruan Magan
- Gormenghast, BBC, WGBH Boston Co-Production ; producer, Estelle Daniel ; screenplay by Malcolm McKay ; director, Andy Wilson
- Separate but equal
- Sons of liberty, writer, Stephen David, David C. White, Kirk Ellis ; director, Kari Skogland
- Stephen King's Storm of the century
- The Pillars of the Earth, Tandem Communications, Muse Entertainment ; in association with Scott Free Films present ; produced by John Ryan ; written for television by John Pielmeier ; directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
- Little women
- Injustice, written by Anthony Horowitz ; directed by Colm McCarthy ; produced by Jill Green and Eve Gutierrez ; an Injustice Films Limited production
- The red tent/, Sony Pictures Television/Spring Creek Productions/Lifetime ; executive producers Paula Weinstein, Nancy Bennett ; produced by Peter McAleese, Elizabeth Chandler ; Teleplay by Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Chandler ; directed by Roger Young
- The Kennedys, after Camelot
- America, the story of us, produced by Nutopia for History
- Broken trail, American Movie Classics ; produced by Damian Ganczewski, Alan Geoffrion, Walter Hill, Chad Oakes, Ronald Parker ; written by Alan Geoffrion ; directed by Walter Hill
- Terry Pratchett's Going postal, All 3 Media International presents in association with British Sky Broadcasting, [and] The Mob Film Co. ; written for screen by Richard Kurti & Bev Doyle ; mucked about by Terry Pratchett ; producer, Sue de Beauvoir ; directed by Jon Jones
- Washington, directed by Roel Reiné, Matt Ginsburg ; written by Richard Lopez, Jeremiah Murphy, Kristen Burns and Ben Kaplan
- Tut, Muse Entertainment Enterprises USA Inc. ; producer, Irene Litinsky, Guy J. Louthan ; written by Brad Bredeweg, Peter Paige, Michael Vickerman ; directed by David Von Ancken