29 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 1800s
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Emma.
England The 1800sLove knows best. — In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
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From Time to Time
England The 1940s The 1800sUnlock the secrets of the past... — A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
England The 1800sNever Forget. Never Forgive. — The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
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Amazing Grace
England The 1800s The 18th CenturyBehind the song you love is a story you will never forget. — The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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St. Ives
England The 1800sIn 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?
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Sharpe's Regiment
England The 1800sTold his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
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Sharpe's Eagle
England The 1800sSharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
🇦🇹 Austria California New Mexico England The 1870s The 1860s The 1800s The 1900s The 1980s The 1st Century BC The 14th Century The 13th Century The FutureHistory is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell. — Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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Jack the Ripper
England The 1880s The 1800sClose your eyes and whisper his name... — A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
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Champagnegalopp
England The 1800sA Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
New York England The 1800sLook into my eyes. — Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities.
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Carry On Jack
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 1800sThat crazy 'Carry On' team . . . on a tidal wave of hilarity ! — Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
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The Time Machine
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800sYou Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future! — A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
England The 1800sA British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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Tyrant of the Sea
England The 1800sIn 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
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The Secret Of St. Ives
England The 1800sA French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
England The 1800s The 1830s The 18th CenturyThe tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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Forever and a Day
England The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800s The 1840sThe Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast — In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
England 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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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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Lloyd's of London
England 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyNorfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Midshipman Easy
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturySet during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Invitation To The Waltz
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sAs the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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