Tag "Period Drama"

The Prestige

Set in London in the 1800s, two rival magicians read each others diary containing the secrets of their magic tricks and personal life. As we go back…

House of Guinness

The consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his cunning will…

The Help

In early-1960s Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter (Stone) is a Southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives–and their hometown–upside-down…

I, Claudius

Rome, 1st Century AD. Aging Emperor Claudius is writing the history of his family. He starts his recollections before he was born with the court of his…

Vinland Saga

A young man named Thorfinn finds himself in a quest for revenge against the man responsible for a traumatic tragedy in his early life. Firstly indulged in…

Peaky Blinders

Thomas Shelby and his brothers return to Birmingham after serving in the British Army during WWI. Shelby and his gang, the Peaky Blinders, control the city of…

Rome

In this British historical drama, the turbulent transition from Roman republic to autocratic empire, which changed world history through civil war and wars of conquest, is sketched…

Downton Abbey

Lord Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) sees his family heritage, especially the grand country home Downton Abbey, as his mission in life. The death of…

Blue Eye Samurai

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Mad Men

The professional and personal lives of those who work in advertising on Madison Avenue – self-coined "mad men" – in the 1960s are presented. The stories focus…