Period and Costume Dramas II

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years. (501 mins.)

The story of the renowned American polymath.

The English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas. (135 mins.)

Ambitious multipart PBS production that brings to life five generations of one of America's leading political and historical families...

Philip Kent(Andrew Stevens) takes part in the american revolution and the newly formed congress. (240 mins.)

Tom Jones, abandoned as a baby in mysterious circumstances, is brought up by Squire Allworthy. Resented by Allworthy's legitimate heir Blifil... (128 mins.)

A Crusader-turned-Monk uses his botanical knowledge to solve mysteries in the old Norman England town of Shrewsbury.

A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother... (123 mins.)

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent. (147 mins.)

Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy. (251 mins.)

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. (116 mins.)

The scene is a pre-French Revolution Bastille, where various political prisoners are being held: a woman who was raped and impregnated by the king... (83 mins.)

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy. (137 mins.)

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. (110 mins.)

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A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. (170 mins.)

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. (194 mins.)

Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal. (119 mins.)

A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain... (126 mins.)

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland... (128 mins.)

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette... (162 mins.)

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future,... (139 mins.)

The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. (83 mins.)

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. (110 mins.)

One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president... (139 mins.)

Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity... (100 mins.)

During the Civil War Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border... (88 mins.)

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant... (135 mins.)

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish... (78 mins.)

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A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. (127 mins.)

The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and inflict havoc in the foreign land. (128 mins.)

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp. Remake of François Truffaut's 1969 film 'Mississippi Mermaid' (116 mins.)

A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they believe to be his cowardice. (132 mins.)

(97 mins.)

The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837... (200 mins.)

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile... (115 mins.)

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a 19th century inventor-villain. (106 mins.)

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. (124 mins.)

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee. (93 mins.)

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all. (112 mins.)

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. (125 mins.)

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic. (133 mins.)

The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing known as 'the Lady with the Lamp'. (140 mins.)

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800's Russia. (106 mins.)

Against a backdrop of political and religious upheaval, a farmer falls in love with the "queen" of the notorious Doone clan --a family that he has sworn vengeance on. (180 mins.)