Be transported back in time through these compelling period drama pieces.
Cornwall, 1783. Ross Poldark returns from the battlefield to find his father dead.
After a lifetime spent supporting her husband, Lady Slane is free to do as she pleases.
A stranger’s death leads Luke Fitzwilliam to Wychwood, where all is not as it seems.
Ten strangers are drawn away from their lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast.
Amelia and Arthur Havisham gather to hear the reading of their father's will.
Can experiments bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones, Lot No 249?
1933. Hercule Poirot receives letters threatening murder, but no-one will listen.
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign.
1561. Young Catholic widow Mary Stuart returns to Scotland from France determined to rule.
Lear divides his kingdom with tragic consequences. Chaos descends on family and state.
First part of the RSC's landmark production of The Wars of the Roses.
A list found in a dead woman’s shoe appears to contain names marked for imminent death.
James Delaney returns to London to claim a mysterious legacy left to him by his father.
Historical drama series chronicling the reigns of the Roman emperors.
Richard conspires to seize the throne of England, orchestrating a bloody rise to power.
In the 1920s, two cousins on the brink of adulthood dream of life beyond the countryside.
Russia is drawn into war with France, changing the lives of three young people forever.
Two landscape artists begin a romance while working at Versailles. With Kate Winslet.
Young Louis XIV seeks to stamp his authority on court and country but faces resistance.
First part of the adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel.
Having endured a miserable and brutal childhood, Oliver is sold to a local undertaker.
Young orphan Esther Summerson is brought to the High Court of Chancery.
Mark Gatiss's fantastic theatrical production of Dickens’s classic winter ghost story.
Emma Woodhouse becomes an incorrigible matchmaker, oblivious to the consequences.
