Period and Costume Dramas I

An adaptation of Flora Thompson's autobiographical novel "Lark Rise To Candleford", set in 19 century Oxfordshire, in which a young girl moves to the local market town to begin an apprenticeship as a postmistress.

A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936. (60 mins.)

Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, the drama centers on the Crawley family and their servants.

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 meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced... (107 mins.)

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I. (102 mins.)

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters. (102 mins.)

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman... (137 mins.)

Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart. (300 mins.)

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works. (100 mins.)

The film is situated in the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein". It describes the relationship between Lord Byron... (126 mins.)

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years post World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty has been. (134 mins.)

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of a spaniel dear to the King... (117 mins.)

Isabel Archer, an American heiress and free thinker travels to Europe to find herself. She tactfully rebuffs the advances of Caspar Goodwood... (144 mins.)

Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England. (137 mins.)

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After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality. (140 mins.)

Based on a little known 1848 novel by Anne Bronte, Tara Fitzgerald stars as an enigmatic young woman...

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of... (118 mins.)

Young Pip is expected to become a blacksmith, but, hating the soot and smoke, he secretly dreams of becoming a gentleman...

A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. (126 mins.)

Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded... (107 mins.)

In mid-1800's England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel... (132 mins.)

A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience... (90 mins.)

A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle. (132 mins.)

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice? (127 mins.)

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows... (132 mins.)

A Salem woman accuses her ex-lover's wife of witchcraft. (124 mins.)

The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside... (121 mins.)

The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury... (98 mins.)

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers. (125 mins.)

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward... (142 mins.)

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman. (140 mins.)

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without. (102 mins.)

Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown... (105 mins.)

In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.

A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj. (98 mins.)

Set in Victorian London, Gwendolen Harleth is drawn to Daniel Deronda, a selfless and intelligent gentleman of unknown parentage, but her own desperate need for financial security may destroy her chance at happiness.

Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior (the banished duke), is raised at the court of Duke Frederick... (127 mins.)

When the fabulous Moonstone diamond is stolen, all the suspects appear to have alibis. Even the young... (112 mins.)

In this lighthearted romance from Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy, the beautiful new village school teacher is pursued by three suitors: a working-class man, a landowner, and the vicar.

18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers.

Set in Victorian London, Gwendolen Harleth is drawn to Daniel Deronda, a selfless and intelligent gentleman of unknown parentage, but her own desperate need for financial security may destroy her chance at happiness.

Miniseries about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.

Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house. (101 mins.)

Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities. (185 mins.)

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. (111 mins.)

Two young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian...

Free-spirited yet naive, country girl Tess, is caught between her wealthy, manipulative, "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated, farmer Angel Clare, in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy. (180 mins.)