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- A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.
- Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
- North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
- Set in the 1960s, this British medical drama follows the staff and patients of St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital.
- A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.
- A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
- A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
- The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- "Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.
- Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
- Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
- The story of the invention of football and how it quickly rose to become the world's most popular game by crossing class divides.
- It tells the story of Lisa who witnesses a cataclysmic event on platform 7 of a railway station and in her memory finds a connection between her own life and the event she just witnessed.
- A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
- A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.
- In 1933, retired detective Hercule Poirot is targeted by a taunting killer who sends letters signed "ABC", which Poirot must decode in order to discover the identity of the murderer.
- After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
- 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.
- After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
- A two-part drama which portrays The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
- The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
- When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
- Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
- Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit.
- A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.
- A young woman moves in with her aunt and uncle and soon discovers unsavory happenings in her new home.
- Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.
- The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate after being told an heir's estate is plagued by a ghostly dog.
- A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss' Muslim mistress, whose dark past pulls him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.
- A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.
- Sienna is desperate to win a large cash prize in a secret underground game show, but dinosaurs begin to hunt her down for the entertainment of the rich and wealthy. Can she be the last to survive the horrific night to win the prize?
- In the late 1930s, Nella Last, a 49 year old housewife living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast, agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass Observation Project; a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes, Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident, she blossoms thanks to the dominant but kindly Mrs. Waite, and enjoys her independence as a useful war worker. The film also shows her relationship with her two sons, as well as the effect of the war on the community, and ends by explaining that Nella kept in touch with the Mass Observation project until her death in 1968.
- The true love between a couple in 1910, 1960 and 2012. Their love is so strong that even destiny wants to bring them together.
- 1968 BBC adaptation of the evergreen E. Nesbit story.
- Series looking at people and stories with a rural theme.
- Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother unhappily married to Geoff and struggling with her feelings for another woman - her 10-year-old son's vivacious teacher, Kathy Thompson.
- 99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
- During the first few months after the deadly First World War, a virulent, dreadful flu breaks out. Point of perspective from Doctor Niven, the CMO of Manchester, on how he carried out this sickness.
- Boring bank manager Peplow arrives by the early-morning train in the small Yorkshire Dales town of Great Minden on the day of their annual Feast (fair). He chances to meet Herbert Ruskin, who used to be in the same RAF squadron and had lost his legs in a wartime flying accident ten years earlier. A cripple, Ruskin now spends all his days looking out of his window, passing witty but cynical comments on everything the locals do. As the day wears on and the fairground music gets louder, it gradually emerges that Peplow, normally a staid and unemotional man, has come to Great Minden on a macabre mission... involving the use of his service revolver! And it is no coincidence that he has come on the day of the Feast.
- Romance lifts a sister from a lively family in working-class Newcastle during World War II.
- The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star-crossed lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
- Yorkshire, England 1952 Ruth Ackroyd leaves the monotony of her work at her father's textile mill on a Friday evening and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There, she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems.
- When his father's World War II war medal is posted to him, Henry decides to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. But is Henry prepared for the truth?
- Rob has left Leone to move in with Jackie and does not attend Elsie's funeral with the others. Grace is keen to scatter her mother's ashes on her beloved Yorkshire moors and Leone and Cath persuade Dave that they should accompany the couple and help them celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Rob also invites himself along--as does Jackie, to his embarrassment, while Dave agrees to deliver a family birthday present in Leeds on Marcus' behalf. When Dave prangs the van in the country, the women hitch a lift with a charming Canadian whom Grace attempts to fix up Leone when they reach their hotel, annoying Rob. The men arrive by hire-car but Maurice, in addition to having accidentally smoked cannabis thanks to Rob, has also lost most of the ashes and replaced them with gravel. Despite everything, the scattering goes ahead, Rob exposes Marcus as being less than scrupulous, and a marriage is saved.
- The Bronte siblings turn to writing after their mother's death. Their novels, published under male names, become famous worldwide. They struggle to balance fame and fortune with their privacy.
- A historian and professor Amanda Vickery explores why Jane Austen's books have been popular for nearly 200 years.
- George, convinced a ghost killed his family, hires Robert, a talented Medium frustrated by his job. As the dead return to tell of ghostly seduction, demonic rage, and brutal murder, Robert discovers a horror more real than any ghost story.
- A documentary on the lives of the Bronte family produced to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte's birth.