- Rise of the rockets, a Nova production by Bigger Bang Communications Limited for WGBH/Boston ; written and produced by Christopher Riley ; producer and location director, James Wright
- Secrets of the Tower of London, Pioneer Productions ; produced and directed by Vicky Matthews
- Ireland's wild river
- Poldark, written and created for television by Debbie Horsfield ; produced by Roopesh Parekh and Michael Ray ; directed by Joss Agnew and Stephen Woolfenden ; a Mammoth Screen production for BBC, co-produced with Masterpiece, The complete third season
- Life on the reef, Eye Spy Productions Pty Ltd
- Skinwalkers, a Wildwood Enterprises production ; a Carlton/Granada production ; producer, Craig McNeil ; written by James Redford ; directed by Chris Eyre ; a production of Wildwood Enterprises and Granada Entertainment in association with WGBH Boston for the Public Broadcasting Service, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Carlton International Media
- Downton Abbey, a Carnival Films production ; a Carnival/Masterpiece co-production ; written and created by Julian Fellowes ; executive producers Gareth Neame, Julian Fellowes, Liz Trubridge, and Nigel Marchant ; producer Chris Croucher ; directors, Catherine Morshead, Minkie Spiro, Philip John, and Michael Engler, Season 5
- Lucy Worsley's royal myths and secrets, director, Craig Collinson, Volume 1
- American epic, a production of BBC Arena, Lo-Max Films Ltd., Wildwood Enterprises, and Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET ; directed by Bernard MacMahon ; story by Bernard MacMahon & Allison McGourty & Duke Erikson ; telescript by William Morgan ; produced by Allison McGourty, Bernard MacMahon, Duke Erikson ; producer, Bill Holderman ; producer, Adam Block
- The next Pompeii, director, Duncan Bulling ; producer, Duncan Bulling, Melanie Wallace
- Indian summers, A New Pictures production for Channel 4 and Masterpiece ; produced by Dan McCulloch ; created and written by Paul Rutman ; directed by Annand Tucker and others, The complete second season
- Secrets of the dead, Methamphetamines in World War II, director, writer, Steven Hoggard
- The draft, Partisan Pictures ; producers, Aaron Matthews, Peter Schnall ; screenwriters, Donald Campbell, Arron Matthews ; director Aaron Mathews
- Downton Abbey, Season 4
- The African Americans, many rivers to cross : an unprecedented journey through African American history, written and presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Outback, journey through northwest Australia, director, Brendan Fletcher ; producer, Karina Holden, Sue Clothier ; writer, Tosca Looby
- How Sherlock changed the world
- The mine wars
- Neanderthal, producers, Ian Dodd, Hannah Jayanti, Rebecca Chambers ; producer & director, Vikram Jayanti ; produced by VIXPIX Films Limited in association with Imaginarium Studios for the BBC and PBS
- Home fires, a co-production of ITV Studios and Masterpiece ; producers, Sue De Beauvoir, Jeremy Gwilt ; creator and lead writer, Simon Block ; directors, Bruce Goodison, Robert Quinn, the complete first season
- Basquiat, rage to riches, producer/director, David Shulman
- Woodstock, three days that defined a generation, an Ark Media production for American Experience ; directed by Barak Goodman ; produced by Jamila Ephron, Barak Goodman and Mark Samels ; written by Barak Goodman and Don Kleszy
- Enemy of the reich, the Noor Inayat Khan story
- The Forsyte saga, the complete series, a co-production of Granada Television and WGBH Boston
- Secrets in our DNA, producers, Laurie Cahalane, Melanie Wallace, Kiki Kapany, Michael Schwarz, Alyn Divine ; writer/director, Edward Gray
- Pets, wild at heart, a John Downer Production for Thirteen Productions LLC and BBC in association with WNET ; producers, Rob Pilley and Matthew Gordon
- Sanditon, created by Andrew Davies ; written by Justin Young, Joe Ainsworth, Andrea Gibb, Robin French, Colin Bytheway, Joe Spain ; series produced by Rebecca Hedderly ; produced by Ian Hogan, Amy Rodriguez ; directed by Jennie Paddon, Steve Brett ; a co-production of Red Planet Pictures and Masterpiece in association with PBS Distribution, Season three
- Ridley, a West Road Pictures production for ITV ; in co-production by PBS ; in association with All3Media ; created by Jonathan Fisher, Paul Matthew Thompson ; written by Paul Matthew Thompson, Julia Gilbert ; produced by Juliet Charlesworth ; directed by Bryn Higgins, Noreen Kershaw, Paul Gay, Season one
- Home fires, a co-production of ITV Studios and Masterpiece ; creator and lead writer Simon Block ; co-writer episode 2 Glen Laker ; producer, Louise Sutton ; directors, Robert Quinn, John Hayes, The complete second season
- Wyeth, the life of Andrew Wyeth in bold strokes, producer, Chayne Gregg ; director, Glenn Holsten
- Love in the animal kingdom
- Secrets of the dead
- The Hudson River School, Artistic pioneers, created, written and produced by Vin Tabone for VJT Productions, LLC
- Lost viking army, producer/director, Peter Gauvain
- Howards End, a Playground production for BBC and StarzOriginals in association with City Entertainment and Kippster Entertainment ; produced by Laura Hastings-Smith ; written for television by Kenneth Lonergan ; directed by Hettie MacDonald
- Great escape at Dunkirk, a Nova production by Blink Entertainment Distribution ; produced and directed by John Hayes Fisher
- America's untold story, producers, Robbie Gordon [and four others] ; writer, Robbie Gordon
- Wolf Hall, a Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures production for BBC and Masterpiece in association with BBC Worldwide, Altus Media, and Prescience ; producer Mark Pybus ; adapted for television by Peter Straughan ; directed by Peter Kosminsky
- JFK & LBJ, a time for greatness, Colonial Pictures ; director, Alastair Layzell
- Hemingway, a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns
- Dolly Parton, 50 years at the Opry, a production of Man Alive Entertainment LTD for BBC ; producer, Dan McGaughey ; directed by Ashley S. Gorman
- Nazca desert mystery, produced and directed by Daniela Völker ; a Nova production by Blink Films for GBH Boston, in association with France Télévisions and NHK ; produced by WGBH
- Loretta Lynn, still a mountain girl, a production of Yap Films in association with Thirteen Productions LLC's American Masters for WNET, BBC Arena and documentary Channel ; executive producers Elliott Halpern, Elizabeth Trojian ; executive producers Patsy Lynn Russell, Sarah Jackson ; producer Elizabeth Trojian ; director Vikram Jayanti
- Wild way of the vikings, Maramedia Ltd and Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET ; produced and directed by Nigel Pope and Jackie Savery
- Zora Neale Hurston, claiming a space, producers, Susan Bellows, Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather-Strain ; writer/director, Tracy Heather Strain
- The egg, life's perfect invention, a Mike Birkhead Associates production for Thirteen Productions LLC and BBC Studios in assocaition with WNET ; directed, produced and written by Beth Jones and Mike Birkhead
- America by the numbers, with Maria Hinojosa ; series producer, Charlotte Mangin ; produced by the Futuro Media Group in association with WGBH for PBS
- John James Audubon, drawn from nature, A production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Inc. ; produced by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey ; directed by Lawrence Hott ; written by Ken Chowder ; edited by Aaron Vega
- Endeavour, written and devised by Russell Lewis ; produced by Charlotte Webber ; directed by Shaun Evans, Nirpal Bhogal, Kate Saxon ; a co-production of Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece ; in association with ITV Studios, The complete ninth season
- Leave it to beavers, Dam Builder Productions in association with Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET ; written, produced and directed by Jari Osborne ; for Mark Fletcher Productions, Limited, written and edited by Mark Fletcher