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1864

★ 6.8 4K votes 2014–2014 1 season · 8 episodes Ended DR1
War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 10/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 10/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 7/10Gut punchWilling to devastate you, and remembered for it.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Pilou AsbækSarah-Sofie BoussninaBent MejdingMarie Tourell SøderbergJens Sætter-LassenJakob Oftebro
Written by
Ole Bornedal
Starring
Pilou AsbækSarah-Sofie BoussninaBent MejdingMarie Tourell SøderbergJens Sætter-LassenJakob Oftebro
Written by
Ole Bornedal
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"A national war myth deliberately dismantled"

1864 is a big-budget Danish historical drama dramatizing the Second Schleswig War, Denmark's disastrous 19th-century conflict with Prussia and Austria. It follows two brothers swept from a pastoral rural estate into the horror of trench warfare, framed by a present-day storyline where a troubled teenager uncovers her ancestors' letters. The show blends lavish battle spectacle with romance, family melodrama, and a pointed critique of nationalist hubris. Pacing is deliberate and tone often sweeping rather than gritty, aiming more for emotional and political resonance than documentary realism.

Watch it for

the sweeping battle spectacle paired with a scathing critique of nationalist folly.

Maybe skip if

you want gritty historical realism rather than melodrama and a framing device.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12014
6.61K87h 37m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.16.2
23957 min
▶2Episode #1.26.2
18259 min
▶3Episode #1.36.4
16356 min
▶4Episode #1.46.5
16159 min
▶5Episode #1.56.5
13856 min
▶6Episode #1.66.6
13657 min
▶7Episode #1.77.3
15654 min
▶8Episode #1.87.0
14259 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Pilou Asbæk Didrich
Sarah-Sofie Boussnina Claudia Henriksen
Bent Mejding Severin
Marie Tourell Søderberg Inge Juel
Jens Sætter-Lassen Peter Jensen
Jakob Oftebro Laust Jensen
Nicolas Bro Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Monrad, Ditlev Gothardt Monrad
Søren Pilmark Oberst E. A. Lundbye, Oberst A. E. Lundbye
Eva Podzimková Sofia
Esben Dalgaard Erasmus

Crew

Ole Bornedal

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