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Return with us now to the days of polite society, back when upper lips were stiff, corsetry was tortuous and no one was really happy. Hardly the good old days, but at least everyone looked smart and knew how to behave. From Austen to Dickens we have no end of impeccable period dramas for you to enjoy, films that, for better and for worse, reveal how we used to live.
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 | Onedin Line, The - Series 1 - Part 1
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THE ONEDIN LINE is the beloved BBC miniseries set against the changing socioeconomic climate of 19th-century England. James Onedin is a poor young ski...
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 | Chariots Of Fire(2001)
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The story of the intense rivalry between two British athletes as they prepare for and participate in the 1924 Olympic Games.
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 | Elizabeth(1998)
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England 1554 and Princess Elizabeth remains in grave danger from a dying Queen Mary, a Catholic, who has weakened England financially and religiously....
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 | Vanity Fair
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A BBC adaptation of Thackery's novel which follows the relative changes in fortunes of two friends in the early 1800s.
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 | Shakespeare In Love(1999)
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The reign of Elizabeth I finds Will Shakespeare, a writer, broke and envious of a rival. Then, he meets with a woman who wants to be an actor and who ...
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 | Remains Of The Day, The(1993)
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A perfect English butler sacrifices everything he cares for in the name of duty and serving his master. Now years later he realises that his duty cost...
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 | Wings Of The Dove, The(2000)
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Kate falls in love with a penniless journalist named Merton. If she marries him she will live in poverty but if she gives him up she will receive her ...
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 | Age Of Innocence, The
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An adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel which chronicles the hypocrisy of high society in the 1880s and tells of three wealthy ...
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 | Tom Jones
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Based on a novel by Henry Fielding about the wild exploits of a rustic playboy.
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