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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... |
