Period, Costume & Historical Television
There isn't much in the way of British industry we can still be proud of - but period costume dramas are the exception to the rule. Whether it's Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen or Evelyn Waugh, we rule the waves when it comes to quality drama, and our influence knows no bounds...
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Period, Costume & Historical Television Film Listing
Donald McWhinnie, 1980
£10.99
Love in a Cold Climate: The Complete Series (1980)
An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford, and starring Jud...
Richard Eyre, Rupert Goold, 2012
£11.99
The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown brings together four filmed adaptations of Shakespeare's History Plays - Richard...
Ken Loach, 1965-77
£29.49
Ken Loach at the BBC
Ken Loach is one of Britains most respected film directors with a career spanning over 40 years....
Susanna White, 2012
£9.99
Parade's End
As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England give way to chaos and destruction, English ar...
Various (TV), 1973
£13.99
Armchair Theatre: Volume 2
Armchair Theatre was ITVs flagship drama anthology series. Initially screened be...
Herbert Wise, 1970s
£14.99
I, Claudius
The complete BBC drama series which told the tales of the Roman Emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Cali...
Philip Casson, 1978
£7.99
The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare's comedy of two sets of identical twins separated in a shipwreck features a wonderful...
Various (TV), 2012
£14.99
Downton Abbey: Series 3
This third instalment of the hugely popular award-winning series sees the return ...
Various (TV), 1976
£25.99
The Cedar Tree: Series 1 - Volume 1
Created by Upstairs Downstairs' Alfred Shaughnessy, The Cedar Tree is a study of ...
Various (TV), 1986
£17.99
Lost Empires
A Granada TV mini-series based on the novel by JB Priestley, Lost Empires follows the adventures ...
Luke Watson, Pier Wilkie, 2006
£11.99
BBC Ghost Stories: Volume 5 - View from a Hill / Number 13
Volume 5 of the BFI's Ghost Stories from the BBC co...
John Bruce, 1982
£5.99
The Woman in White
An outstanding BBC adaptation of Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery thriller, this 1982 serialisat...
Tony Palmer, 1984
£24.49
Wagner
Tony Palmer's exhaustive TV biopic of the German composer Richard Wagner stars Richard Burton in ...
Various (TV), 1973
£14.99
The Brontės of Haworth: The Complete Series
In their isolated world on the Yorkshire Moors, the Brontė sisters found an escap...
Various (TV), 2012
£8.99
Downton Abbey: A Journey to the Highlands
The 2012 Christmas special of Downton Abbey.
Kevin Billington, 1981
£7.99
The Good Soldier
Jeremy Brett, Susan Fleetwood, Robin Ellis and Vickery Turner star in this adaptation of Ford Mad...
David Giles, 1978
£7.99
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Giles, 1978)
Dennis Potter's powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. Alan Bates p...
Various (TV), 2012
£6.49
Call the Midwife
Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, BBC drama series Call The Midwife is...
