Eletään 1900-luvun alkua, ja Daniel Plainview poikansa kanssa etsii öljyä Kaliforniasta. Mutta nuori saarnaaja, Eli Sunday, pistää kapuloita heidän rattaisiinsa ja haastaa heidät henkiseen voimainmittelöön. Tästä taistelusta tulee pelottava, synkkä matka hulluuteen.
John Dillinger on vaikeasti napattava pankkirosvo, jonka FBI nimesi yhteiskunnan ykkösviholliseksi. Billie Frechette on ainoa nainen, joka on onnistunut viemään Dillingerin sydämen. FBI:n väsymättömän huippuagentin Melvin Purvisin ja Dillingerin kiihtyvä kissa ja hiiri leikki huipentuu legendaariseen ja räjähtävään välienselvittelyyn.
Eversti William Ludlow eroaa armeijasta vastalauseena hallituksen intiaanipolitiikalle. Hän muuttaa kolmen poikansa Alfredin, Samuelin ja Tristanin kanssa Montanan kesyttömään erämaahan. Kun nuori Samuel eräänä päivänä esittelee perheelleen tulevan vaimonsa Susannahin, tunteet leimahtavat. Mutta pian Euroopassa puhkeaa ensimmäinen maailmansota ja veljekset matkaavat taisteluihin, vastoin isänsä tahtoa.
Kiina vuonna 1900. Valtakunta joka yhä on keisaridynastian vallassa. Kansan tyytymättömyys on suuri ja vallankumous lähellä. Majuri Matt Lewisin saapuessa Pekingiin on kaupunki paniikin vallassa. Vallankumoukselliset ovat murhanneet satakunta lähetyssaarnaajaa ja he uhkaavat tappaa kaikki valkoihoiset. Kielletyn Kaupungin muurien takana viholliset pitävät jäljellä olevia länsimaalaisia pelon kourissa. Muutamia tuhansia siviilejä ja vain muutama sata sotilasta elää vailla ruokaa, ruutia ja lääkkeitä. Yhtäkkiä keisarinna Tzu-Hsi puuttuu valtapeliin ja siirtyy vallankumouksellisten puolelle – yhdessä armeijansa kanssa joka koostuu yli sadastatuhannesta sotilaasta. Kaikki toivo on nyt Major Lewiksen harteilla. Edessä on 55 päivää jota maailma ei koskaan unohda...
Revolverimies (The Shootist) on yhdysvaltalainen lännenelokuva vuodelta 1976. Se perustuu Glendon Swarthoutin edellisenä vuonna julkaisemaan romaaniin. Tarina kertoo ikääntyvästä, kuuluisasta revolverisankarista (John Wayne), joka on kuolemassa eturauhassyöpään ja joutuu kohtaamaan hahmoja menneisyydestään.
Huikeilla musiikkinumeroilla höystetty elokuva vuosisadan alun Pariisista. Köyhä brittinuorukainen rakastuu kaupungin kuuluisimpaan kurtisaaniin. Australia/USA 2001.
Brittielokuvan huippuihin kuuluva musta komedia miehestä (Dennis Price), joka päättää raivata tieltään hänen ja aatelisarvon välissä olevat kahdeksan sukulaista. Heitä kaikkia esittää Alec Guinness.
The Forsyte Saga is a British-American drama television serial based on John Galsworthy's novel series of the same name. Taking place from the 1870s to the 1920s, three generations of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family are explored.
In early 1900s London, a young Japanese woman enrolls in a famous art school, only to be surprised when rivalry with a gifted classmate becomes romance.
In 1900s Tianjin, a shipping magnate is found mysteriously drowned and chained underwater, and police dive captain Guo Deyou becomes the prime suspect. As the victim’s son, Ding Mao, investigates, more strange drownings occur, forcing him to team up with Guo, a spirit medium, and a journalist. Their search uncovers a dark secret tied to a deadly cult from decades ago, now resurfacing to wreak havoc. Together, they must uncover the truth and stop the rising threat.
In 1906 London, 14-year-old Theodosia “Theo” Throckmorton gathers an eclectic team that includes her younger brother Henry, along with friends Will and Egyptian Princess, Safiya, to fight a powerful secret society bent on destroying the world with ancient Egyptian dark magic.
Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.
Pit Pony is a 1999 CBC television series which tells the story of small-town life in Glace Bay, on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1904. The plot line revolves around the lives of the families of the men and boys who work in the coal mines.
Sisters Lillian and Grace open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. Caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, the duo strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the challenges of helping the children in their care.
The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
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.
When social upheaval sweeps Russia in the early 20th century, Czar Nicholas II resists change, sparking a revolution and ending a dynasty.
Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago.
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the changes in their own way through their concept of truth. However, all of them shared fundamental desire to live, love and find their own place in the new era.
In early 20th-century England, young orphan Christina Parsons is sent to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after an impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.
Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.
Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door. Based upon the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
