Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors -...

This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based...

How Green Was My Valley is a six-part television miniseries adapted by Elaine Morgan, based on Richard Llewellyn's eponymous 1939 novel. The serial...

After arranging a friend's marriage, the incorrigible Emma Woodhouse turns her attention to matching Mr. Elton, the local vicar, with Harriet Smith,...

When her husband dies, Mrs Adele Gereth quarrels with her carefree son Owen over the family estate and his desire to marry for love, not money.

The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of...

In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate...

A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and...

Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian...

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (often referred to simply as Murder Most English) is a seven-part British detective miniseries based on...

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the...

Georges Duroy cynically exploits women - and his position as a journalist - to gain power in 19th-century France.

Jude the Obscure is a British television serial directed by Hugh David and dramatised by Harry Green, based on Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel of the same...

Possibly lost adaptation of the 1853 Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name.

Chéri is a 1973 British drama television series produced and aired by the BBC. The five-episode miniseries is an adaptation of the acclaimed...

A four-part adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1900 novel, dramatised by Alun Richards. Starring Brian Deacon as the titular Lewisham, a young man with...

Adaptation of Aldous Huxley's novel, following the personal and spiritual progress of Anthony Beavis in the years between the world wars.

This four-part drama series from BBC2 told the story of Flemish peasant woman Madeleine Vanderlynden and her Spanish Farm situated in French Flanders...

A politically ambitious man rises to power in a German provincial town at the end of the nineteenth century.

Wives and Daughters is a classic 1971 BBC television mini-series adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's 1864 Victorian novel. Directed by Hugh David and...

Adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's novel about two young men and their families in 19th century Russia.

In 1951 Milly Purdoe, wife of a member of a British mission, arrives with her family to live for the first time in a country behind the Iron Curtain.

Dramatization of Gustave Flaubert's novel about the life and romances of Frédéric Moreau at the time of the 1848 French Revolution and...

The plot revolves around what happens after the brothers toss a coin to see who joins Prince Charlie and who remains to oversee the family estate....

In Rome in 1945, a woman struggles to support herself and her daughter.

A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and...

In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate...

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the...

After arranging a friend's marriage, the incorrigible Emma Woodhouse turns her attention to matching Mr. Elton, the local vicar, with Harriet Smith,...

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors -...

Possibly lost adaptation of the 1853 Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name.