historical dramas
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Films
Belle
Amma Asante · 2013
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
Atonement
Joe Wright · 2007
En el verano de 1935, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), una precoz escritora de 13 años, cambia irremediablemente el curso de varias vidas cuando acusa al amante de su hermana Cecilia (Keira Knightley), el joven Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), de haber cometido un crimen. Los productores y el realizador de "Orgullo y prejuicio" vuelven a unirse en este drama.
Persuasion
Adrian Shergold · 2007
Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true love. Now he visits their former seaside country estate, rented by his brother-in-law, Admiral Croft, so the financially stressed baronet can afford a fashionable, cheaper residence in trendy Bath. The former lovers meet again on the estate, where they feel vibes again, but neither dares admit them until it seems too late.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig · 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright · 2005
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Shows
The Tudors
Michael Hirst · 2007
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Marie Antoinette
Deborah Davis · 2022
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.
The Leopard
Richard Warlow · 2025
Amid the unification of 1860s Italy, a Sicilian prince grapples with the collision between his family's ancient privilege and revolutionary change.
The Queen's Gambit
Scott Frank, Allan Scott · 2020
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
The Empress
Katharina Eyssen · 2022
Two young people meet. A fateful encounter - the proverbial love at first sight. He is Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, she is Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and the sister of the woman Franz is to marry…
The Artful Dodger
David Taylor, David Maher, James McNamara · 2023
It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.
Sanditon
Andrew Davies · 2019
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
Downton Abbey
Julian Fellowes · 2010
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Versailles
David Wolstencroft, Simon Mirren · 2015
The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality.
Reign
Laurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta · 2013
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
The Great
Tony McNamara · 2020
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.
The Buccaneers
Katherine Jakeways · 2023
Une bande d’Américaines fêtardes débarque sur la scène guindée de Londres dans les années 1870, provoquant un clash culturel anglo-saxon. Envoyées pour assurer leur mariage et leur statut, le cœur de ces jeunes filles aspire à quelque chose de bien différent.
Bridgerton
Chris Van Dusen · 2020
De otte tæt forbundne søskende i Bridgerton-familien søger kærligheden og lykken i Londons højere samfundslag.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Shonda Rhimes · 2023
O casamento da rainha Charlotte com o rei George é muito mais que uma história de amor: é uma transformação na alta sociedade do universo de Bridgerton.
Anne with an E
Moira Walley-Beckett · 2017
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
Pride and Prejudice
1995
Miniserie de TV de 6 episodios. Adaptación en formato miniserie de la famosa novela de Jane Austen ambientada a comienzos del siglo XIX, en la que los prejuicios y las diferencias sociales constituyen un obstáculo casi insalvable en las relaciones amorosas.
My Lady Jane
Gemma Burgess · 2024
Gird your loins for the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, the young Tudor noblewoman who was Queen of England for nine days and then beheaded, back in good ol’ 1553. Actually... f*ck that. We’re retelling history the way it should have happened: the damsel in distress saves herself. This is an epic tale of true love and high adventure set in an alt-universe of action, history, fantasy, comedy, romance, and rompy-pompy. Buckle up.
