Det er omkring århundredeskiftet og da Daniel Plainview får et tip om, at der er olie lige under ørkensandet i den californiske flække Little Boston, rejser han derud med sin lille søn for at søge lykken. Men en ung præst prøver at spænde ben for dem, og udfordrer far og søn i deres ambitioner. Små konflikter vokser sig større og mens magten tager over forsvinder alle menneskelige værdier som kærlighed, håb, sammenhold og drømme.
Efter mange års fravær vender adelsmanden Lawrence Talbot hjem til familiens victorianske landsted, da hans bror forsvinder sporløst. I landsbyen mener man, at en forbandelse hviler over de omkringliggende skove, hvor blodtørstige varulve siges at rumstere ved fuldmåne. Talbot begynder selv at tro på myten, efter han en nat bliver overfaldet og mærker de dyriske drifter tage over i sin egen krop.
Besætningen på handelsskibet Demeter forsøger at overleve havrejsen fra Carpathia til London, da de hver nat bliver forfulgt af en nådesløs tilstedeværelse ombord på skibet.
Den kontroversielle forfatter Wilde, levede en ganske almindelig kernetilværelse med børn og kone i sidste århundrede. Men hans besættelse af den noget yngre adelsknægt Lord Alfred Douglas, bliver begyndelsen til en tragedie.
I 1892 bliver hærkaptajnen Blocker meget mod sin vilje beordret til at eskortere den døende Cheyenne-høvding Yellow Hawk og hans familie tilbage til stammens reservat. På rejsen møder de to ærkefjender en ung enke, hvis familie er blevet myrdet. Nu må den umage trio gøre fælles sag for at overleve i det barske landskab blandt fjendtlige Comanche-indianere og brutale strejfere.
Omkring århundredeskiftet sendes den engelske ingeniør John Patterson til Afrika for at lede et brobygningsarbejde. Byggepladsen hjemsøges imidlertid af to glubske løver, der æder en hel del af de afrikanske arbejdsmænd. Patterson må derfor dræbe løverne hurtigst muligt og får hjælp hertil af storvildtjægeren Remington.
I kolonitidens Indien betaler de indiske bønder skat til de britiske koloniherrer. Et år bliver skatten fordoblet, samtidig med at tørken sætter ind, og de fattige bønder har ingen mulighed for at betale skatten og samtidig overleve. De indgår nu en handel med den britiske kommandant. Der skal spilles en cricketkamp mellem briter og indere. Vinder briterne tredobles skatten. Vinder inderne fritages hele provinsen for skat i tre år. Problemet er bare, at de indiske bønder aldrig har prøvet at spille cricket før.
Audrey Tautou giver her en fantastisk stærk skildring af den legendariske modeskaber Coco Chanel. Hun kom fra et fattigt børnehjem i en fransk landsby og indtog de bonede gulve i Paris. Med en sprudlende kreativitet gav hun den som både varietésangerinde, syerske, samfundsrebel og modeskaber. Benoît Poelvoorde og Alessandro Nivola spiller de rige, elegante mænd, der var besat af den mystiske Coco Chanel, hvis stil og visioner var inspireret af mode og lidenskab. Hun gav den moderne kvinde en ny, udfordrende tøjstil og et helt nyt liv.
Frøken Julie er overklassekvinden som en midsommernat i 1880 forfører sin fars tjener. Hun er hovmodig og ude efter at blive ydmyget, han er poleret, men rå. Det bliver en brutal og flirtende magtkamp mellem de to, som føres sammen af fælles afsky og tiltrækning.
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
An evil force is looming across the dark, thick-aired streets of industrial revolution London when a group of heroes dubbed Unicorn are accidentally reawakened in the bodies of teenagers instead of adult hosts they’ve embodied in the past.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American action adventure northwestern television series based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. It was initially broadcast in color on CBS across three seasons from September 29, 1955 to September 25, 1958. Richard Simmons stars as Sergeant William Preston, who patrols the Yukon Territory in search of renegades and outlaws, during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.
Transported to the Spanish colonial era, a young woman finds love, uncovers secrets, and faces a destiny beyond time.
The Flaxton Boys is a British historical children's television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, created by Sid Waddell. Four seasons—covering a specific period: 1854, during the Crimean War (series 1), 1890 (series 2), 1928 (series 3), and 1945, in the aftermath of WWII (series 4)—explore four generations of young men and their experiences at Flaxton Hall in Yorkshire.
The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
Circus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960. The series currently airs Saturday mornings on Antenna TV.
Shadow of the Noose is a 1989 BBC One legal drama miniseries starring Jonathan Hyde as real-life English barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall. The eight-episode serial depicts Marshall Hall's high-profile, controversial cases, earning him the nickname 'The Great Defender', while also exploring his personal struggles, particularly those related to his unhappy first marriage.
The affair that shook Victorian society to its core: he was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.
In 1895 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, amid preparations for a major trade fair, the murder of a wealthy nobleman occurs. Detective Aleksey Lykov investigates, uncovering a sinister plot that endangers his life as he pursues the truth.
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells is a six-part 2001 television miniseries conceived by Nick Willing and broadcast on the Hallmark Channel. Each episode adapts — and sometimes quite radically alters — a short story written by Wells: The New Accelerator, The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper, The Crystal Egg, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Truth About Pyecraft and The Stolen Bacillus. Each is presented as if it were a 'real' incident that Wells had investigated with his girlfriend, Jane Robbins, and as if it had served as an inspiration for a short story. The flashbacks are to 1893 within the 1946 frame story, near the end of Wells's life, when he is interviewed by a secret military research institute interested in his past exploits.
