 | The Madness of King George
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.96 Rated PG-13 - 1994
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves, Rupert Everett, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Geoffrey Palmer, Adrian Scarborough
late 18th century England
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 | The Man From Snowy River
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $7.04 Not British, but still has a fun accent. Loved it!
Rated PG - 1982
Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart, Bruce Kerr, Jack Thompson, Sigrid Thornton
1880 Australia
Sequel: Return to Snowy River.
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 | Masterpiece Theatre: Mansfield Park
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $14.99 Not very good.
Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Unrated - 2007
Billie Piper, Blake Ritson, Jemma Redgrave
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 | Mansfield Park (1999)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.75 Ok.
Rated PG-13 - 1999
Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon, Victoria Hamilton
*Beware Content*
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 | Martin Chuzzlewit
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $6.72 Another Fantastic Dickens!
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Unrated - 1995
Paul Scofield, Ben Walden, Pauline Turner, Stephen Mapes, Tom Wilkinson, Philip Franks, Keith Allen, Julia Sawalha, Emma Chambers, Lynda Bellingham, Sue Wallace, Charlie Condou, Jimmy Gardner
19th century England
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $1.86 I liked this, but it was hard to know who to like in the end. With the exception of one perhaps.
Based on the novel by Thomas Hardy.
Unrated - 2003
Ciarán Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Jodhi May, James Purefoy, Polly Walker
mid-1800s
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 | Middlemarch
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $6.75 Multiple layers of engaging drama. Great story!
Based on the novel by George Eliot.
Unrated - 1994
Juliet Aubrey, Robert Hardy, Douglas Hodge, Peter Jeffrey, Trevyn McDowell
mid-1800s
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 | Agatha Christie's Marple: Series 1
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $35.00 If you've never read the books these movies are really quite enjoyable.
Based on the books by Agatha Christie.
Unrated - 2005
Geraldine McEwan, Christian Coulson, Keeley Hawes, Tara Fitzgerald, Robert Powell, Simon Callow, Ian Richardson, Jane Asher, Miriam Margolyes, Tim McInnerny, Herbert Lom, Jenny Agutter, Derek Jacobi, Janet McTeer, Stephen Tompkinson, James Fox, Celia Imrie
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 | Agatha Christie's Marple: Series 2
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $34.90 Unrated - 2006
Geraldine McEwan, James D'Arcy, Ken Russell, Frances de la Tour, Thelma Barlow, Timothy Dalton, Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Anthony Andrews, Patricia Hodge, Imogen Stubbs, Sophia Myles, Dawn French, Martin Kemp, Geraldine Chaplin, James Murray, Rita Tushingham, Mel Smith
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 | Agatha Christie's Marple Series 3
Buy new: $52.49 / Used from: $33.99 Unrated - 2007
Geraldine McEwan, Richard E. Grant, Amanda Burton, Eileen Atkins, Saffron Burrows, Greg Wise, Martine McCutcheon, Francesca Annis, Peter Davison, Jane Seymour, Juliet Stevenson
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 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Widescreen & Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $2.41 Adorable! Really really liked it. *Warning* Male rear nudity.
Based on the novel by Winifred Watson
Rated PG-13 - 2008
Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Shirley Henderson, Tim Potter, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Payne, Mark Strong
1938 England
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 | Miss Potter
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $6.65 Rated PG - 2006
Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson
early 20th century
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 | Moliere
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $7.75 Rated PG-13 - 2007
Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean-Claude Jay, Edouard Baer
17th century France
FYI, it's in French
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 | Moll Flanders
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.45 Rated PG-13 - 1995
Robin Wright Penn, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, Geraldine James
18th-century England
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 | Mrs. Henderson Presents (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.36 Rated R - 2005
Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Will Young, Kelly Reilly
WWII England
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 | The Murdoch Mysteries Movie Collection
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $20.25 Based on the novels by Maureen Jenning
Unrated - 2008?
Peter Outerbridge, Colm Meaney, Keeley Hawes, Flora Montgomery, William B. Davis
1890s
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 | Masterpiece Theatre: My Family and Other Animals
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.03 Very whimsical.
Based on the novel by
Unrated - 2005
1935 England - Greece
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 | Ned Kelly
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.78 Rated R - 2004
Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts, Joel Edgerton
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 | Nicholas Nickleby
Buy used from: $2.98 Loved it! The music is also really good.
Based on the book by Charles Dickens.
Rated PG - 2002
Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Anne Hathaway, Romola Garai, Nathan Lane, Alan Cumming, Edward Fox, Timothy Spall
19th century England
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 | Nicholas Nickleby
Buy used from: $54.98 Not as much fun as the big screen version, but probably closer to the book.
Unrated - 2002
John Dallimore, James D'Arcy, Sophia Myles, Diana Kent, Charles Dance, Lee Ingleby, Dominic West
*Beware Content*
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 | North & South
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $16.50 Breathtaking! Like Pride and Prejudice, only much more dramatic and not as witty.
Based on the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
Unrated - 2005
Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack, Brendan Coyle
19th century England
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 | Masterpiece Theatre: Northanger Abbey
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.99 Loved it! *Warning* You see two of the supporting characters the morning after they've slept together.
Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Unrated - 2008
JJ Field, Felicity Jones
early 19th century
This is a cut version - The original that aired on ITV has scenes that are missing from this PBS version
*Beware Content*
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 | Oliver Twist (2005)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.18 Pretty good.
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Rated PG-13 - 2005
Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice, Richard Durden, Jamie Foreman
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 | Oliver Twist (Masterpiece Theatre, 1999)
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $7.13 Um, this is a bit weird, simply because most of the beginning takes place BEFORE Oliver is born.
Unrated - 1999
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 | Onegin
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $9.31 Really didn't see what the big deal about this movie was. Although Fiennes is pretty hot...
Rated R - 2000
Ralph Fiennes, Toby Stephens, Liv Tyler, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan
19th century Russia
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl (2003 BBC Version)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $8.95 Unrated - 2003
Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris, Steven Mackintosh, Philip Glenister
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 | Our Mutual Friend
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $8.49 Fantastic! Not light hearted, but still good.
Based on the book by Charles Dickens.
Unrated - 1999
Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, Anna Friel, David Morrissey, Peter Vaughan, Steven Mackintosh, Timothy Spall,
1860s London
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