During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed...

The making of modern Australia through the eyes of competing media moguls Sir Frank Packer and a young Rupert Murdoch.

Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one...

Television adaptations of six books by well-known romantic novelists.

Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968...

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two...

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael...

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...

The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.

The story is about Thongprakai or Thongdee, a girl who went to live in Bangkok in search for a better life. She gets involved with several men, using...

A poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment...

British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic accident which turns himself invisible. Unfortunately,...

Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she...

The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside...

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...

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross...

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII...

Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in...

The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.

The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha...

The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.

An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a...

Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber, sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two...

Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew...