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British Period Dramas
Corsets, wartime villages, and drawing rooms on the edge of change — five beloved British period dramas, and where to stream each one in the US.
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Based on Jennifer Worth's memoirs, this warm, big-hearted drama follows nurse-midwives and nuns serving London's East End from the late 1950s onward. Few shows balance comfort and emotional weight so beautifully.
Aidan Turner stars as Captain Ross Poldark, who returns from war to 18th-century Cornwall to find his estate in ruins and his beloved about to marry his cousin — a sweeping saga of romance, class, and rebellion.
Jenna Coleman stars as the young Queen Victoria, crowned at eighteen and navigating the scandal, corruption, and political intrigue of the royal court, with Rufus Sewell and Tom Hughes as the men in her life.
On the WWII home front, the women of a rural English village band together through the Women's Institute to keep the nation's fabric intact, with Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis leading as headstrong rivals.
This lovingly mounted three-part adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic follows the March sisters from girlhood to adulthood while their father is away at war, with Maya Hawke, Emily Watson, and Angela Lansbury.
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