4 Films & TV Shows Set In Wales During The 19th Century
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Gwen
Wales The 1850sA mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
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August
Wales The 1890sIt's really how life can appear with desillusions, good and funny moments, peace, love and hate. — Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."
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Rebecca's Daughters
Wales The 1830s The 1840sThey're not quiet. They're not peaceful. They're not women. — Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
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The Last Days of Dolwyn
Wales The 1890sAn old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.