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War & Peace

★ 8.1 30K votes 2016–2016 1 season · 8 episodes Ended BBC One
Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 10/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 9/10Royalty & aristocracyCourts, crowns and dynasties.This show: 8/10War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 8/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 8/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Paul DanoJames NortonLily JamesAdrian EdmondsonAisling LoftusGreta Scacchi
Starring
Paul DanoJames NortonLily JamesAdrian EdmondsonAisling LoftusGreta Scacchi
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03006009001k

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"Tolstoy's epic squeezed into gorgeous, brisk television"

Adapted from Tolstoy's sprawling novel, this eight-part miniseries follows several aristocratic Russian families as love, ambition, and faith collide against the backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. It's lush and handsomely mounted, moving between ballroom intrigue and battlefield chaos, with romance simmering alongside existential dread. The pace is brisk for a costume drama, condensing a thousand-page epic into digestible chunks without losing its emotional weight. Strong performances anchor the sweep, making the tangle of names and relationships easier to follow than the book. It rewards patience but never feels like homework.

Watch it for

the way it compresses a massive novel into something emotionally clear and visually sumptuous.

Maybe skip if

you want strict fidelity to Tolstoy or dislike large ensembles with many names to track.

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

All Seasons

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Miniseries2016
7.95K87h 11m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.17.5
1K43 min
▶2Episode #1.27.7
87943 min
▶3Episode #1.37.9
88660 min
▶4Episode #1.47.8
78860 min
▶5Episode #1.58.2
80360 min
▶6Episode #1.68.4
81180 min
▶7Episode #1.78.5
1442 min
▶8Episode #1.88.4
1543 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Paul Dano Pierre Bezukhov
James Norton Andrei Bolkonsky
Lily James Natasha Rostova
Adrian Edmondson Count Ilya Rostov
Aisling Loftus Sonya Rostova
Greta Scacchi Countess Natalya Rostova
Jack Lowden Nikolai Rostov
Tuppence Middleton Helene Bezukhova, Helene Kuragina
Aneurin Barnard Boris Drubetskoy
Jessie Buckley Marya Bolkonskaya

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