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Downton Abbey - Season One
[ Universal Pictures / 4 DVD Box Set - released 22/Jun/2011 ] Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, 'Downton Abbey' tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and... |
Downton Abbey - Season Three
[ Universal Pictures / 3 DVD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2012 ] The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. As other... |
Downton Abbey - Season Four
[ Universal Pictures DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2012 ] It is nearly six months after the death of Matthew Crawley and Mary is adjusting to her new life and attempting to move on without the man she loved and raise her son, George. She has at least two new suitors: Anthony, Lord Gillingham - who has known... |
The Chaperone
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 7/Aug/2019 ] Louise Brooks is a rebellious 15-year-old schoolgirl who dreams of fame and fortune in the early 1920s. She soon gets her chance when she travels to New York to study with a leading dance troupe for the summer -- accompanied by a watchful... |
Death Comes to Pemberley
[ Roadshow / DVD - released 11/Dec/2014 ] A three part period drama BBC production based on the PD James novel of the same name, which is a sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with a son, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at... |
Maggie Smith & Hugh Bonneville
Christmas at Downton Abbey [ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 9/Feb/2012 ] Christmas 1919. Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas party, yet despite being the season of goodwill, tensions are rife and Bates's arrest has cast a shadow over the festivities. |
Downton Abbey - Season Six
[ Universal / 3 DVD - released 4/Dec/2015 ] We return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season of this internationally acclaimed hit drama series. As our time with the Crawleys beings to draw to a close and we see what will finally become of them all, the... |
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 18/Apr/2012 ] This 2011 production is a raw and passionate three-part adaptation of one of Dickens' finest novels starring Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson and Douglas Booth. A terrifying encounter with escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes; a summons from Miss... |
Hollow Crown Season 2: The War Of The Roses
[ Via Vision DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/May/2017 ] These three screen adaptations, Henry VI in two parts and Richard III, tell the story of The War of the Roses, an exceptionally turbulent period in British history. Shakespeare's plays are filmed in the visually breathtaking landscape and... |
Howard's End (TV Mini Series)
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 22/Aug/2018 ] Based on E.M. Forster's classic novel, the miniseries adaptation of "Howards End" is a portrayal of England at the turn of the 20th century told through the lens of three families: the intellectual Schlegels, the wealthy and prejudiced Wilcoxes and... |
Land Girls - Series One
[ ABC / 2 DVD - released 2/May/2012 ] As they adapt to their new surroundings, and knuckle down to some hard work and play, they realise very quickly that their lives will never be the same again. Against the backdrop of war-weary Forties Britain, Land Girls is set on the Hoxley estate,... |
Land Girls: Series Two
[ ABC / DVD - released 5/Dec/2012 ] Warm hearted and ultimately uplifting, Land Girls Series 2 continues to examine how a whole generation of women adapted to new found independence, free from the shackles or comforts of home life as they helped the war effort. The... |
Land Girls - Series 3
[ ABC / 2 DVD - released 4/Dec/2013 ] Land Girls Series 3 is once again set on the Hoxley estate and in the village of Helmstead, against the backdrop of war weary 1940s Britain. The highly popular drama is based at the run down Pasture Farm and the opulent Hoxley Manor, which is taken... |
Rebellion - Series One
[ Acorn Media DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 9/Nov/2016 ] A five part drama about the emergence of a new state during one of the most disruptive and terrifying periods in history. The drama begins with the outbreak of World War One. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, extremism... |
Versailles - Season 1
[ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment DVD / 3 DVD - released 9/Nov/2016 ] Haunted by the trauma of the Fronde as the nobles of his court begin to rebel against the monarchy, 28-year-old Louis XIV decides to make the nobility submit by imposing a definite move of the court from Paris to Versailles. Trapped by their king's... |
Versailles - Complete Series 3
[ Sony Pictures / 4 DVD - released 31/Oct/2018 ] In Versailles Season 3, nothing can thwart King Louis XIV's ambitions. He has settled the Affair of the Poisons and won the war against Holland. Now he aims to expand his empire and impose his power on all of Europe. But his dreams come with a cost. |
Versailles - Season 1 - 3 Discs
[ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Nov/2016 ] Haunted by the trauma of the Fronde as the nobles of his court begin to rebel against the monarchy, 28-year-old Louis XIV decides to make the nobility submit by imposing a definite move of the court from Paris to Versailles. Trapped by their king's... |
Poirot Series 6
[ Acorn / 4 DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] No detail is too small, no crook too clever to escape the keen eye and razor-sharp intellect of Agatha Christie's famous sleuth. |
Poirot Series 7 & 8
[ Acorn Media DVD / 4 DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] A truly outstanding selection of 4 movie length episodes in which the popular Hercule Poirot as portrayed exquisitely by David Suchet meets with the evil side of society. Criminal's toy with Poirot while he performs his ritual examination of the... |
Deadwood - The Complete Second Season
[ Paramount Home Entertainment / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2007 ] Welcome to Season Two of the gritty Western series, 'Deadwood' - A harsh and uncompromising tale of an American frontier town and the ruthless power struggle that exists in its lawless boundaries - featuring Ian McShane as the charismatic but... |
Downton Abbey - Season Two
[ Universal Pictures DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2011 ] Julian Fellowes' hit drama 'Downton Abbey' returns for a second series with all the regular cast including Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt and Dan Stevens. Returning to Downton Abbey in 1916, we... |
Downton Abbey - Season Three (Blu-Ray)
[ Universal Pictures Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 7/Dec/2012 ] The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. As other... |
Downton Abbey - A Moorland Holiday
[ Universal DVD / DVD - released 4/Feb/2015 ] It's the grouse season and Rose's father-‐in-‐law Lord Sinderby has rented Brancaster Castle in Northumberland and invited the Crawleys to a shooting party. While good sport is enjoyed, a butler with an axe to grind and a scandalous secret threaten... |
Downton Abbey Legacy: Complete Collection (28 DVDs)
[ Universal Pictures / DVD Box Set - released 27/Apr/2016 ] Downton Abbey - The Complete Collection (30 Disc Box Set) Sumptuous costume drama Downton Abbey, written and created by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park, The Young Victoria) boasts an all-star cast featuring Hugh Bonneville,... |
Downton Abbey - Season Six (Blu-Ray)
[ Universal Pictures Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 4/Dec/2015 ] We return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season of this internationally acclaimed hit drama series. As our time with the Crawleys beings to draw to a close and we see what will finally become of them all, the... |
Downton Abbey - Season Five
[ Carnival Film / Universal / 3 DVD - released 10/Dec/2014 ] Set in 1924, the fifth series sees the return of our much loved characters in the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey. As they face new challenges, the Crawley family and the servants who work for them remain inseparably interlinked. A new Labour... |
Downton Abbey - Season Four (Blu-Ray)
[ Universal Pictures Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Dec/2013 ] It is nearly six months after the death of Matthew Crawley and Mary is adjusting to her new life and attempting to move on without the man she loved and raise her son, George. She has at least two new suitors: Anthony, Lord Gillingham - who has known... |
Downton Abbey - The Finale (Blu-Ray)
[ Universal Pictures Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Jan/2016 ] We return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the final instalment of this internationally acclaimed hit drama series. The last ever episode offers all the highs and lows, joy and sorrow, that viewers across the globe have grown to love. |
Dr Thorne: Season 1
[ Universal / 2 DVD - released 31/Aug/2016 ] The new three-part drama from Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), starring Tom Hollander, Ian McShane & Rebecca Front. In the series, Dr. Thomas Thorne (Hollander) lives a quiet life with his niece Mary in the English village of Greshambury, which is... |
Garrow's Law - Series 1
[ Acorn DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Feb/2015 ] Based around real legal cases from 18th Century 'Old Bailey archives'. A time of turbulence, when the world was up for grabs, and belonged to those who used both hands. Lawyer, William Garrow, came to the courts of London's Old Bailey where... |
Garrow's Law - Series 2
[ Acorn DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Feb/2015 ] Pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow returns to the Old Bailey to champion the rights of prisoners against the State. But he is making powerful enemies who are determined to destroy him by any means. Garrow challenges a brutal trade... |
Indian Summers - Season 1
[ Eone / 2 DVD - released 7/Oct/2015 ] Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. But at the... |
Poirot Series 1
[ Acorn / 4 DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] No detail is too small, no crook too clever to escape the keen eye and razor-sharp intellect of Agatha Christie's famous sleuth. |
Poirot Series 2
[ Acorn / 4 DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] Welcome to the elegant art deco world of Hercule Poirot where nothing is as it seems. Once again, David Suchet as Poirot confounds his critics and effortlessly solves the most fiendish crimes and conundrums leaving his colleagues and cohorts lost in... |
Poirot Series 5
[ Acorn / 4 DVD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] The life of Hercule Poirot would not be comfortable for the ordinary man, but for Poirot the prospect of investigating a complex murder case can be obsessive. Welcome to his remarkable world of intrigue and mystery where in all his splendour he... |
The Village - Season 1
[ Eone / BBC / 2 DVD - released 3/Dec/2014 ] The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton. Bert has been portrayed as a boy by Bill Jones, as a teen by Alfie Stewart, as a young man by Tom Varey, and as an old man by David... |
