Costumes

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Original vocal groups from the 1950s and early 1960s sing their hits.

This documentary series looks at the enduring appeal of the British costume drama genre, and features clips and interviews with both the stars and those who worked behind the camera.

Rize chronicles a dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.

When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.

Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.

A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.

Claire (Nymark), an unmarried pregnant teenager, finds an odd relation in Madame Mélikian (Ascaride), an older woman grieving over the death of her son.

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.

After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.

A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.

Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

Set in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has died. That leads to a total new set of circumstances in his life.

Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original score, it tells the fictional story of DJ Huey Calhoun, a good ole' local boy with a passion for R&B music and Felicia Farrell, an up-and-coming black singer that he meets one fateful night on Beale Street. Despite the objections of their loved ones (Huey's close-minded mama and Felicia's cautious brother, a club owner), they embark on a dangerous affair. As their careers rise, the relationship is challenged by personal ambition and the pressures of an outside world unable to accept their love.

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.

As a wedding dress is passed down through five couples, it weaves a magical spell playing a part in each of their love stories.

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.

Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge, and their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.

Two young men head west in search of fortune and adventure.

As she rises in the fashion world, a talented dress designer loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.

Percy Savage started fashion PR, introduced Saint-Laurent to Dior, created the Mary Quant explosion, invented fashion video and established London Fashion Week. A Savage Life in Fashion, a film narrated by Joanna Lumley, features the first-ever interview with Percy Savage.