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An epic charting one Derbyshire village across the entire 20th century, seen through the eyes of a single character from boyhood to old age. Beautifully acted and almost unbearably honest about rural hardship.
Based on the real archives of Quarry Bank Mill, this gritty drama follows 19th-century cotton mill apprentices as they begin to stand up against the injustices of the industrial revolution.
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Explore the Guide →A country girl arrives in England's first department store and finds herself swept up in ambition, romance, and the store owner's complicated past. A lavish, loose adaptation of Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames.
A fiercely idealistic new headmistress arrives in a struggling 1930s Yorkshire town and finds her ambitions colliding with a haunted local landowner. A beautifully performed adaptation of Winifred Holtby's novel.
A glamorous five-star London hotel tries to carry on through the Blitz, its staff and guests navigating class, secrets, and a world at war. Billed at the time as ‘Downton Abbey in a hotel.’
Volunteer nurses arrive at a WWI field hospital on the French coast, wholly unprepared for what awaits them. An intimate, moving look at the Great War rarely told from this angle.
A unit of Royal Military Police and their families navigate love, politics, and danger in 1960s British-controlled Aden. An underseen look at the twilight of the British Empire.
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