The end of the year is fast approaching and it’s time to list the best historical movies movies and TV series we saw in the last twelve months. We decided not to consider only productions of 2008 but every movie and TV series we saw and commented here on the blog during this year. There are still so many past productions to explore that we thought the more the merry. In no particular order here are our 10 favourites, which are your favourites??
- Cranford
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Sense & Sensibility
- Jodhaa Akbar
- Sweeney Todd
- Persuasion (2007) / Persuasion (1995) (ex-aequo, we just couldn’t decide
) - Northanger Abbey
- Lost in Austen
- Jane Eyre
- The Prestige
And we already have an eye out for some of the movies and series being announced for 2009/10, among those we feel might be of interest are:
- Dorian Gray
- Public Enemies
- Nottingham
- King Lear
- Black Death
- Bronte
- Wuthering Heights
- Agora
- Pope Joan
- Sherlock Holmes
- Love and Virtue
With this we end 2008 and we want to wish you all a Happy New Year’s Eve. May 2009 bring you new amaizing series and the best historical movies ever!
Thank you for this blog in 2008, I enjoyed it a lot!
And I’m also looking forward to read a lot more here in 2009!
Happy New Year!
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Cranford was incredible – I completely agree!
Great list; thanks.