Miniseries's Greatest Years, Ranked

When was the golden age of Miniseries? We ranked every year by the accumulated weighted rating of its best Miniseries titles — a year rises when it delivered many strongly-rated entries, not just a lone classic. Data from 3eyedraven's catalog.

  1. #1 2024 25 great titles Best: Shōgun
  2. #2 2022 25 great titles Best: The Glory
  3. #3 2023 25 great titles Best: Beckham
  4. #4 2025 25 great titles Best: Bon Appétit, Your Majesty
  5. #5 2021 25 great titles Best: 1883
  6. #6 2020 25 great titles Best: The Queen's Gambit
  7. #7 2019 25 great titles Best: Chernobyl
  8. #8 2026 25 great titles Best: The WONDERfools
  9. #9 2017 25 great titles Best: Blue Planet II
  10. #10 2016 25 great titles Best: Planet Earth II
  11. #11 2014 25 great titles Best: Apocalypse: World War I
  12. #12 2015 21 great titles Best: And Then There Were None
  13. #13 2018 20 great titles Best: Hymn of Death
  14. #14 2009 20 great titles Best: Life
  15. #15 2012 19 great titles Best: The Men Who Built America
  16. #16 2010 18 great titles Best: The Pacific
  17. #17 2005 17 great titles Best: 1 Litre of Tears
  18. #18 2011 17 great titles Best: Human Planet
  19. #19 2013 16 great titles Best: Africa
  20. #20 2008 14 great titles Best: Generation Kill
  21. #21 2006 14 great titles Best: Planet Earth
  22. #22 2007 12 great titles Best: The War
  23. #23 1999 12 great titles Best: Queer as Folk
  24. #24 2003 10 great titles Best: Battlestar Galactica
  25. #25 2002 10 great titles Best: The Century of the Self
  26. #26 1998 9 great titles Best: The Temptations
  27. #27 1993 9 great titles Best: To Play the King
  28. #28 1989 8 great titles Best: Dekalog
  29. #29 2000 8 great titles Best: The 10th Kingdom
  30. #30 1997 7 great titles Best: The Odyssey
  31. #31 2004 7 great titles Best: Sex Traffic
  32. #32 2001 6 great titles Best: Band of Brothers
  33. #33 1985 6 great titles Best: Anne of Green Gables
  34. #34 1983 6 great titles Best: V
  35. #35 1995 6 great titles Best: Pride and Prejudice
  36. #36 1988 6 great titles Best: War and Remembrance
  37. #37 1996 6 great titles Best: Gulliver's Travels
  38. #38 1987 5 great titles Best: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
  39. #39 1986 5 great titles Best: Shaka Zulu