My period drama to-watch list

A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.

The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.

Anna Karenina is the young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires, Anna complicates her life.

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.

A daughter of the powerful Duke must show her courage and inventiveness to be with the man she loves.

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Doctor Zhivago falls for Lara despite being engaged. Their forbidden love blossoms amidst the upheaval of the Russian Revolution, impacting his career and family.

Set in Victorian times, Emily of New Moon is the brilliant tale of a free-spirited, orphaned girl whose vivid imagination, passion to write, and romantic nature clash with her strict adoptive family.

The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

Spanning decades, the saga contrasts obsessive Soames, clinging to wife Irene, and Jolyon, leaving for his kids' governess. Their diverging paths intertwine, bringing highs and lows to the upper-class Forsyte clan.

Garrow's Law is the true tale of William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend.

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

The story of Prince John, the autistic and epileptic youngest son of Queen Mary and King George V, who spent his whole life hidden away from public view and died at the age of 13 in 1919.

In the first part of this adaptation by Peter Barnes, Tom and Louisa are first introduced to the audience.

A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

In late 1800s England, Jude plans to go to the city and attend university but marries early and becomes a stonemason. When his wife leaves, he moves to the city, where he befriends his liberal cousin Sue.

The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...

The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?

Middlemarch is a story of provincial life on the brink of momentous change and a deeply moving saga about a group of people striving to give meaning and value to their lives during the Industrial Revolution.

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.