23 Films & TV Shows Set In England During The 1810s
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Dolittle
England The 1810sHe's just not a people person. — After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
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Bridgerton: Season 1
England The 1810sWealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
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Peterloo
England The 1810sAn epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
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Black Venus
England 🇫🇷 France The 1810sThe true story of Saartjes Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
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Bright Star
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1810s The 1820sFirst love burns brightest. — In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
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Blackadder: Back & Forth
England The 1990s The 1810s The Middle AgesThe final episode in the saga of the Blackadder family, who have forever been at the very center of British history and society. — What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.
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Princess Caraboo
England The 1810sShe was everything they dreamed of... And nothing they expected. — Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?
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Beau Brummell
England The 1810sSoldier, poet, adventurer, rogue, gambler, lover ! — Lavishly told story of George Bryan Brummel, a commoner born in the era of Napoleon who uses wit, brilliance and sartorial flair to align himself with the future King George IV. Lush settings in authentic locations and Taylor in Regency …
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The Reluctant Widow
England The 1810sA young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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The First Gentleman
England The 1810sThe story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
England The 1810sBold Swooping Tremendous Adventure! — Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
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That Hamilton Woman
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe Year's Most Exciting Team of Screen Lovers! — The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Rothschilds
England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany The 1800s The 1810sNazi biography of the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
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Jamaica Inn
England The 1810sIn coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Quality Street
England The 1810sIn the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
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The Amateur Gentleman
England The 1810sA former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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Becky Sharp
England 🇧🇪 Belgium The 1810sYOU WILL SEE HER TRANSFORMED BY THE WONDEROUS NEW TECHNICOLOR — The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
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D’Ye Ken John Peel
England The 1810sMajor John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
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The House of Rothschild
England The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
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The Iron Duke
England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810sThe life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Divine Lady
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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The Amateur Gentleman
England The 1810sA PICTURE AS ONLY THE MOST LOVABLE OF ACTORS COULD GIVE TO THE SCREEN. — Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
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Beau Brummel
England 🇫🇷 France The 1810s The 18th Century...the Most Beautiful Romance in all History — George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
