Period Dramas [OLD]

Get lost in these bites of escapist British fare and enjoy the exquisite costumes, the sumptuous storyline, and the revelation of lost times.

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Downton Abbey
The phenomenon that changed the face of British TV forever. Set in the lavish 1900’s Yorkshire country estate, follow the lives and affairs of the elite Crawley family and their servants.
Show · 6 Seasons
Persuasion
Anne Elliot is pressured by her parents to turn away her true love due to his lack of status or wealth. Years later, he returns from sea, a successful naval officer, which salts the wound on Anne’s heart.
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Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path
Romantically involved with two sisters, a farmer’s son seeking redemption goes off to fight in WWI and must face the enemy as well as his demons.
Show · 1 Season
Life in Squares
Two sisters escape to a new life in the bohemian Bloomsbury area of London, where they defy the norms of Victorian England.
Show · 1 Season
Daniel Deronda
In George Eliot’s love story, the spirited Gwendolen Harleth falls for a sensitive, intelligent young man, haunted by the secrets that surround his birth.
Show · 1 Season
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Two sisters with differing attitudes to life and love navigate their romantic lives in a society obsessed with wealth and status.
Show · 1 Season
Servants
In front of their masters, the servants of the Sturges Born family are silent and obedient. But out of sight, they lead lives full of secrets, ambition, love, and intrigue.
Show · 1 Season
My Family and Other Animals
Based on Gerald Durrell’s renowned autobiography, the eccentric Durrell family experience the joys of living a life of freedom and adventure.
Movie
A Royal Scandal
Richard E. Grant stars in this true story of bitterness and betrayal, where a royal marriage, entered into for all the wrong reasons, falls apart.
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The House of Eliott
From the creators of Upstairs, Downstairs, this award-winning drama chronicles the rise of a haute couture fashion house in 1920’s London, founded by two talented and determined sisters.
Show · 3 Seasons
The Cazalets
Amid dramatic change and upheaval in WWII-era England, discover the privilege, prestige, and hidden secrets of the Cazalet dynasty.
Show · 1 Season
The Lady Vanishes
Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë’s unforgettable story of jealousy, revenge, and the destructive passion of lovers Heathcliff and Cathy.
Show · 1 Season
A Tale of Two Cities
Set during the French Revolution, this timeless Dickens tale of romance, sacrifice, and tyranny finds a noble hero torn between improving society and self-advancement.
Show · 1 Season
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Two sisters learn what it takes to find love and happiness in a restrictive high society, where wealth and status trump all.
Show · 1 Season
Love in a Cold Climate
Three young women search for love as they grow out of their care-free youth and into adulthood in this adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
Show · 1 Season
The Other Boleyn Girl
This tale of passion and royal intrigue depicts the story of Mary Boleyn, King Henry VIII's mistress before he married her elder sister Anne.
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Dandelion Dead
The BAFTA-winning true story of a Welsh lawyer who finds himself in the middle of what would become one of Britain’s most infamous murder trials.
Show · 1 Season

Like the Dickens

Dickensian
You don't need to know Dickens' novels to fall in love with these stories. The world of Dickens has been realized and reimagined as his most iconic characters live side by side and take on new journeys of love, scandal, and intrigue.
Show · 1 Season
Oliver Twist (2007)
William Miller and Tom Hardy star in the classic Dickens tale. After growing up in a workhouse, Oliver sets out for London and meets a peculiar cast of characters.
Show · 1 Season
Bleak House
This imaginative adaptation of Dickens' Victorian drama stars Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock, who must hide a dark secret from lawyer Tulkinghorn amid an infamous court case.
Show · 1 Season
Little Dorrit
This moving series adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel chronicles the wavering fortunes and hardships of a young girl caring for her father in the debtor’s prison where she was born.
Show · 1 Season
Our Mutual Friend
Set against the contrasting backgrounds of new money and squalid poverty, two love stories unfold amid bitter tensions over money, class, and passion in this Dickens tale.
Show · 1 Season
A Christmas Carol
Since "A Christmas Carol" was first published in 1843, the name of Ebenezer Scrooge has been famous throughout the world. See Michael Hordern's stunning portrayal of the miserly misanthrope being shown the error of his ways in this iconic adaptation.
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Bleak House (1985)
As the arduous Jarndyce vs Jarndyce case staggers onward, more and more people become embroiled in a furious legal battle that can only lead to a bitter ending.
Show · 1 Season
David Copperfield
Dickens' classic is brought to life in this charming adaptation with a stellar cast including Maggie Smith, Emilia Fox, and Daniel Radcliffe in his very first professional role.
Show · 1 Season
Great Expectations (1999)
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in one of Dickens' greatest creations, and this adaptation is appropriately dark, sometimes savagely comic, and wholly unsentimental.
Show · 1 Season
David Copperfield (1986)
Charles Dickens’ cherished story chronicling the life of a kind-hearted orphan, from his childhood tribulations to his literary success.
Show · 1 Season
A Tale of Two Cities
Set during the French Revolution, this timeless Dickens tale of romance, sacrifice, and tyranny finds a noble hero torn between improving society and self-advancement.
Show · 1 Season
Great Expectations (1981)
In this adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ greatest works, an orphan with humble beginnings grows to become a gentleman, thanks to an anonymous benefactor.
Show · 1 Season
Hard Times
In an industrial town where markets overshadow the human spirit, a retired merchant forbids his children to engage in imaginative pursuits.
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Oliver Twist (1985)
One of Dickens’ best-known tales about an orphan boy who asked for more.
Show · 1 Season

The Catherine Cookson Collection

Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin
Living a life of luxury, Annabella Lagange is blissfully unaware that her father is a wastrel and a womanizer. Also unbeknownst to her is a life-shattering secret.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Wingless Bird
As Britain is on the brink of WWI, three very different families are linked by the strong-minded Agnes Conway in this story of perseverance and love across class divides.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Man Who Cried
Set during the turbulent times of the 1930's Depression and WWII, Abel Mason searches for happiness for himself and his young son.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Dwelling Place
A young girl must care for her 5 younger siblings following her parents’ death and is challenged when the aristocratic Fischel family takes an unwelcome interest.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Tide of Life
The lively and unconventional young Emily Kennedy learns valuable lessons about life and love in her relationships with three very different men.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Moth
In early 1900’s England, a carpenter leaves the shipyards for a job in his uncle's business, and life in the country is not as idyllic as he had imagined.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path
Romantically involved with two sisters, a farmer’s son seeking redemption goes off to fight in WWI and must face the enemy as well as his demons.
Show · 1 Season
The Fifteen Streets
In this romance starring Sean Bean and Owen Teale, a rugged laborer and the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder struggle to find love across class divides.
Movie
Catherine Cookson's The Gambling Man
Feeling trapped by the slums of South Shields, Rory Connor tries his hand at gambling to get what he wants out of life - but the luck of a gambler goes both ways.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph
"Raggie Aggie" Winkowski takes in the young Millie Forrester, abandoned in the cold streets by her mother.
Show · 1 Season
Catherine Cookson's The Girl
A dying woman delivers her daughter to the home of her former lover, Mr Thorton, and his wife is not pleased with the new arrangement.
Show · 1 Season

Austen's Power

Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Two sisters learn what it takes to find love and happiness in a restrictive high society, where wealth and status trump all.
Show · 1 Season
Persuasion
Anne Elliot is pressured by her parents to turn away her true love due to his lack of status or wealth. Years later, he returns from sea, a successful naval officer, which salts the wound on Anne’s heart.
Movie
Northanger Abbey
A young woman with a taste for melodrama and romance is invited to stay with the affluent Tilney family, where she learns a sinister family secret.
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Emma
Romola Garai is Jane Austen’s fickle heroine, fatally convinced she is good at matchmaking, but unaware she is playing a dangerous game that might finally force her to grow up.
Show · 1 Season
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Two sisters with differing attitudes to life and love navigate their romantic lives in a society obsessed with wealth and status.
Show · 1 Season
Mansfield Park
In Jane Austen’s witty Regency romance, impoverished Fanny is sent to live with her more affluent uncle and struggles for acceptance by her shallow relatives.
Show · 1 Season
Pride and Prejudice (Remastered)
On its 25th anniversary, Jane Austen’s timeless love story is given the most lavish treatment yet in this new restoration available exclusively on BritBox.
Show · 1 Season
Pride and Prejudice (1980)
While Mrs. Bennet frantically tries to find husbands for her five daughters, willful and strong-minded Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.
Show · 1 Season
Emma (1972)
In Emma Woodhouse’s imprudent attempts to meddle in her friends’ love lives, she is counseled and criticized by her brother-in-law, whose attentions are motivated by more than just brotherly love.
Show · 1 Season

From Page to Screen

Cranford
Judi Dench stars in this story of a Northern, small-town hub of intrigue where everyone talks - and everyone is talked about.
Show · 2 Seasons
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel springs vibrantly to life in this lavish and slightly steamy adaptation, featuring Ruth Wilson (Luther) in her TV debut as the titular "poor, obscure, plain and little" heroine.
Show · 1 Season
Mansfield Park
In Jane Austen’s witty Regency romance, impoverished Fanny is sent to live with her more affluent uncle and struggles for acceptance by her shallow relatives.
Show · 1 Season
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of love across class divides, where a girl of privilege experiences the hardships of the working class firsthand.
Show · 1 Season
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë’s unforgettable story of jealousy, revenge, and the destructive passion of lovers Heathcliff and Cathy.
Show · 1 Season
Daniel Deronda
In George Eliot’s love story, the spirited Gwendolen Harleth falls for a sensitive, intelligent young man, haunted by the secrets that surround his birth.
Show · 1 Season

Timeless Romance

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of love across class divides, where a girl of privilege experiences the hardships of the working class firsthand.
Show · 1 Season
Doctor Zhivago
Physician and poet Yury Zhivago wrestles with his intense love for two women during the Russian Revolution. Keira Knightley & Sam Neill star in this stunning adaptation of the heartbreaking love story.
Show · 1 Season
As Time Goes By
Classic romantic sitcom starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
Show · 10 Seasons
A Revolutionary Romance
The wedding that had the entire world vying for an invite. Illustrated with rich archive and snippets from a select cast in the know, we reveal Harry and Meghan's wildly different backgrounds and the sheer luck that brought them together.
Movie
Daniel Deronda
In George Eliot’s love story, the spirited Gwendolen Harleth falls for a sensitive, intelligent young man, haunted by the secrets that surround his birth.
Show · 1 Season
Tipping the Velvet
Keeley Hawes (Stonehouse) and Rachael Stirling (Wild Bill) star in this tempestuous tale of love and life, where a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the decadent world of bohemian 1890s London.
Show · 1 Season
Our Mutual Friend
Set against the contrasting backgrounds of new money and squalid poverty, two love stories unfold amid bitter tensions over money, class, and passion in this Dickens tale.
Show · 1 Season
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Set in Regency London, this evocative story of courage and forbidden love follows a woman’s fight to tell her own story when she is accused of murder.
Show · 1 Season
Christopher and His Kind
Matt Smith and Toby Jones star in this stirring drama chronicling the formative years of novelist Christopher Isherwood and the forging of his identity amidst the chaos of 1930s Berlin.
Movie
Against the Law
When Peter Wildeblood fell in love with Edward McNally in 1952, homosexuality was a crime in Britain. Their love affair would have devastating consequences for each of them, leading to a watershed moment for British equality.
Movie
Cranford
Judi Dench stars in this story of a Northern, small-town hub of intrigue where everyone talks - and everyone is talked about.
Show · 2 Seasons
Downton Abbey
The phenomenon that changed the face of British TV forever. Set in the lavish 1900’s Yorkshire country estate, follow the lives and affairs of the elite Crawley family and their servants.
Show · 6 Seasons
Lark Rise to Candleford
Rich, funny and emotional, Lark Rise to Candleford follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, the small hamlet gently holding on to the past, and Candleford, the small market town bustling into the future.
Show · 4 Seasons
The White Princess
"The White Princess" charts one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the viewpoint of the women waging the battle for power.
Show · 1 Season
Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
One of the most beloved period dramas of all time is brought back to life in this sumptuous series starring Keeley Hawes and Claire Foy. Follow the secrets, lies, and scandals of Belgravia's masters and servants.
Show · 2 Seasons

The Great Victorian Era

Lark Rise to Candleford
Rich, funny and emotional, Lark Rise to Candleford follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, the small hamlet gently holding on to the past, and Candleford, the small market town bustling into the future.
Show · 4 Seasons
Sherlock Holmes
Jeremy Brett, in a peerless portrayal of the classic character, stars in this faithful adaptation. From a blackmailed monarch to an abandoned Christmas goose, Holmes uses his acute perception and powers of observation to solve riddles and catch criminals.
Show · 4 Seasons
Cranford
Judi Dench stars in this story of a Northern, small-town hub of intrigue where everyone talks - and everyone is talked about.
Show · 2 Seasons

All About Aristocracy

Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
One of the most beloved period dramas of all time is brought back to life in this sumptuous series starring Keeley Hawes and Claire Foy. Follow the secrets, lies, and scandals of Belgravia's masters and servants.
Show · 2 Seasons
Elizabeth R
A terrified princess, surrounded by treachery, transforms into the Virgin Queen. Glenda Jackson gives an iconic performance in this multi-Emmy winner.
Show · 1 Season
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
This lavish period drama brings Tudor England to life through Henry VIII's wives - from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr - while revealing England's most infamous king.
Show · 1 Season
Upstairs Downstairs (Original)
One of the most cherished and successful series of all time, this magnificent costume drama spans three decades in the lives of the Bellamy family and their below stairs servants, between the years of 1903 and 1930.
Show · 5 Seasons

All's Fair...

Sharpe
Sean Bean stars in these dramas set during the Napoleonic wars of 19th century Spain. Fast-moving, hard-hitting action adventures based on Bernard Cornwell's best-selling novels.
Show · 5 Seasons

Andrew Davies' Favorites

Pride and Prejudice (Remastered)
On its 25th anniversary, Jane Austen’s timeless love story is given the most lavish treatment yet in this new restoration available exclusively on BritBox.
Show · 1 Season
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Two sisters learn what it takes to find love and happiness in a restrictive high society, where wealth and status trump all.
Show · 1 Season
Little Dorrit
This moving series adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel chronicles the wavering fortunes and hardships of a young girl caring for her father in the debtor’s prison where she was born.
Show · 1 Season
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Two sisters with differing attitudes to life and love navigate their romantic lives in a society obsessed with wealth and status.
Show · 1 Season

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