80 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 1900s
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Enola Holmes
England The 1890s The 1880s The 1900sMystery runs in the family. — While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
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The Professor and the Madman
England The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870s The 1880sThe incredible true story that defined our world. — Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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Apostle
Wales The 1900sYour god can't help you. — In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
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The Lost City of Z
England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for? — A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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Victoria & Abdul
Scotland England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇳 India The 1900s The 1880sHistory's most unlikely friendship. — Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Queen of the Desert
England 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history — A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Suffragette
England The 1910s The 1900sMothers. Daughters. Rebels. — Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
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Sunset Song
Scotland The 1900sAn epic story of love, loss and the land that inspired it all. — The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
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The Go-Between
England The 1900sAn elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
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Saving Mr. Banks
California England Queensland The 1960s The 1900sWhere her book ended, their story began. — Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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Teenage
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe birth of youth culture — Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie
England The 1900s The 1890s The Middle AgesEver since the world was born, two forces have been locked in perpetual battle. Their struggle is so Manichean, so ferocious, so Herculean that it makes the clash between good and evil look like a game of checkers! This ancestral duel is so ancient and so merciless that it can only be, Oggy against the Cockroaches!
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Il sogno del maratoneta
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sThe feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.
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The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
England The 1900s The 1880sThe 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera. — A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera was celebrated with a grand performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Dean Spanley
England The 1900sSet in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
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The Prestige
Colorado England The 1890s The 1900sAre You Watching Closely? — A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
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Finding Neverland
England The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sWhere will your imagination take you? — During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her three children—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan'.
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Fakers
England The 1900s The 2000sFAKERS is a sharp, fast moving tale of blackmail and forgery set in the upper echelons of the international art society. Set in present day London and 1911 Italy.
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Peter Pan
England The 1900sAll children grow up except one. — In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
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Stiff Upper Lips
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇳 India The 1900sStiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
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The Treasure Seekers
England The 1900sFive motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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Howards End
England The 1900sA saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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Chaplin
California England 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sEveryone has a wild side. Even a legend. — An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
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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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A Room with a View
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sWhen Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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