/u/King-Owl-House's posts in /r/PeriodDramas
[MOVIE] Angelas Ashes (1999). An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America.
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[MOVIE] Swept from the Sea (1997). The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century.
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[SERIES] Love, Nina (2016) A glimpse of 80s literary London based on Nina Stibbe's letters to her sister.
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[SERIES] He Knew He Was Right (2004). Louis Trevelyan's refusal to trust his wife Emily destroys their marriage.
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[SERIES] The Barchester Chronicles (1982). When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cozy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
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[SERIES] The Jewel in the Crown (1984). The sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
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[MOVIE] Widow Clicquot (2023). The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.
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[MOVIE] Miss Evers' Boys (1997). The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black man were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
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[MOVIE] Gernika (2016). The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
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