The Hour

About The Hour

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.

The Hour is a crime, war, and politics series made for BBC Two and BBC America. Ben Whishaw appears as Freddie Lyon, Romola Garai as Bel Rowley, Dominic West as Hector Madden, and Anna Chancellor as Lix Storm.

It ran for 2 seasons and 12 episodes between July 2011 and December 2012. That is around 6 episodes a season.

Members will find 1950s, journalist, british history, and cold war in it. It streams on AcornTV Amazon Channel, Acorn TV Apple TV channel, and Spectrum On Demand in the United States. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 103 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

Peaky Blinders, Shadow Lines, and The Queen's Gambit make useful companions to The Hour, all filed under historical and modern history.