At the Movies « Lights, Camera… History!

on November 22, 2008 at 7:58 pm | Reply Sunni

Hi Girls! I found your website while looking for more info on the next series of Lark Rise. I absolutely love historical films and have quite a collection. I would like to add to your list of movies and shows. I tried to edit it to remove any already mentioned in your list, so please forgive duplicates. Hopefully you will discover some new titles to explore. I have seen everything on my list and own 90% of them, so if you have questions about any just ask.

Here’s my list of historical movies/shows (I call it the Time Travel Collection):

84 Charing Cross Road
Affinity
All the King’s Men (1999 David Jason)
Anna & the King
Angels & Insects
Atonement
Baron Munchausen
Basil
Beau Brummell
Being Julia
Berkeley Square
Bertie & Elizabeth
Black Book
Bramwell Series 1-4
Brideshead Revisited
Bright Young Things
Broken Trail
Byron
Carrington
Catherine Cookson: Tilly Trotter
Catherine Cookson: Gambling Man
Catherine Cookson: Black Candle
Catherine Cookson: Tide of Life
Catherine Cookson: Man Who Cried
Catherine Cookson: Rag Nymph
Catherine Cookson: Cinder Path
Catherine Cookson: Wingless Bird
Catherine Cookson: The Girl
Catherine Cookson: A Dinner of Herbs
Catherine Cookson: The Moth
Catherine Cookson: Colour Blind
Catherine Cookson: Fifteen Streets
Catherine Cookson: Black Velvet Gown
Catherine Cookson: Glass Virgin
Catherine Cookson: Round Tower
Catherine Cookson: Dwelling Place
Catherine Cookson: The Secret
Cazalets
Chamomile Lawn
Cider House Rules
City of Vice
Clarissa
Cousin Bette
Crown Prince
Crucible
Daphne
David Copperfield
Deja Vu
Doctor Zhivago
Dr. Bell & Mr. Doyle
Duchess of Duke Street Series 1-2
End of the Affair
Ends of the Earth, The
Excalibur
Falling for a Dancer
Far & Away
Far From the Madding Crowd
Feast of July
Finding Neverland
Firelight
Forsyte Saga
Forsyte Saga Series 2
Frenchman’s Creek
Frida
Gentlemans Relish
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Goodnight Mr. Tom
Governess, The
Goya’s Ghosts
Great Gatsby
Hanging Gale
Harlots Progress, A
He Knew He Was Right
Head in the Clouds
Heart of Me, The
History of Mr. Polly
Hope & Glory
House of Eliott Series 1-3
Idiot, The (Russian)
Iron Jawed Angels
Illusionist
Island at War
Impressionists
Impromptu
Ivanhoe
Jeeves & Wooster
Ladies In Lavender
Lady Chatterly
Lark Rise to Candleford
Last Samurai
Last September
Legends of the Fall
Lilies
Little Dorrit
Lolita
Longitude
Love for Lydia
Love in a Cold Climate
Love on a Branch Line
Lover, The
Magdalene Sisters
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mary Bryant
Mary Reilly
Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
Mayor of Casterbridge
Mesmer
Middlemarch
Mill on the Floss
Miss Austen Regrets
Miss Marple
Miss Potter
Missionary
Moonstone
Moulin Rouge
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Soffel
My Boy Jack
My Brilliant Career
My Life So Far
Nicholas Nickleby
Nora
Notebook, The
Old Curiosity Shop
Out of Africa
Painted Veil
Pan’s Labyrinth
Perdition
Phantom of the Opera
Plunkett & Macleane
Portrait of a Marriage
Possession
Prestige, The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio
Queen’s Sister, The
Railway Children
Rebecca
Real Charlotte, The
Return of the Native
Rob Roy
Robin of Sherwood
Sally Lockheart Mystery 1&2
Scarlet Tunic
Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Silk
Sister My Sister
Shadowlands
Snow Falling on Cedars
Sophies Choice
Songcatcher
Sons & Lovers
St. Ives
Tea with Mussolini
These Foolish Things
Tipping the Velvet
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Tom Jones
Topsy Turvy
Tristram Shandy
Turn of the Screw
Twenty Thousand Streets
Vera Drake
Victoria & Albert
Way We Live Now, The
Wilde
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Woman in White, The
Wyvern Mystery
on November 22, 2008 at 9:29 pm | Reply Alex

Hi Sunni! Thank you so much for sharing your Time Travel Collection with us! We didn’t update our list for a long, long time… It’s time to spend some time re-working on it again, it seems.
on November 22, 2008 at 10:08 pm | Reply Ana

Hi Sunni! Thank you so much for sharing that list. I’m already writing down some of the titles to check them out.
on June 5, 2009 at 9:46 pm | Reply New World, New Blog

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