A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an ideal place in the middle of the wilderness to investigate his sister's disappearance. What he ignores is that he's about to meet his greater love: the pretty and seductive daughter of the Hotel's owner. Between this young couple, of different social classes, a very passionate love will be born. A dangerous romance will be entwined with the mysteries and secrets hidden between the walls of the Grand Hotel. In The Grand Hotel no one is who we think it is, no one is free of hazards or suspicious. A complex web of lies, secrets and betrayal awaits...
Beginnend arts Max Liebermann, zoon van een vermogend Joodse zakenman, doet als student van Sigmund Freud onderzoek naar het nieuwe vak psychotherapie - tot grote afschuw van zijn hoogleraar. In een poging de criminele geest beter te begrijpen, krijgt hij toestemming in het spoor van inspecteur Oskar Rheinhardt mee te werken aan het onderzoek naar een reeks schokkende moorden rond de grand cafés en operahuizen in het Wenen van 1900.
The Forsyte Saga is het verhaal van de rijke en arrogante familie Forsyte, bij wie onder een dikke laag goud en goede manieren, ongeluk en dramatiek de boventoon voeren. Voorbeeld bij uitstek is het huwelijk tussen Soames Forsyte en de onbemiddelde Irene Heron. Hij is Victoriaans: arrogant, preuts en egoïstisch. Zij is mooi, modern en lijdt in stilte onder haar moeizame huwelijk. Zij stort zich in een affaire met de knappe architect Philip Bosinney, die om het leven komt als Irene er met hem vandoor wil gaan.
Frequent flooding and drowning were common occurrences in Tianjin (Tientsin) in the early 1900s. But when a local shipping magnate was found drowned to death chained to a statue on the bottom of riverbed, police department's underwater recovery team captain Guo De You was their primary suspect, since he was the only one in the city who could stay underwater long enough to complete the deed. The businessman son's Ding Mao tried to prove Guo's guilt, but his own forensic discovery and another bizarre drowning in the same vicinity challenged his initial impression. Together with spirit medium Gu Ying and news reporter Xiao Lan Lan, they peeled away the mystery and found the clues pointed to an incident occurred over 20 years ago when an evil cult was ravaging the city. Now, the cult was once again causing havoc. To stop their resurgence, the team must investigate the unexplained, mind-bending cases that plagued their city.
Pit Pony is a 1999 CBC television series which tells the story of small-town life in Glace Bay, on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1904. The plot line revolves around the lives of the families of the men and boys who work in the coal mines.
In 1906 London, 14-year-old Theodosia “Theo” Throckmorton gathers an eclectic team that includes her younger brother Henry, along with friends Will and Egyptian Princess, Safiya, to fight a powerful secret society bent on destroying the world with ancient Egyptian dark magic.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the changes in their own way through their concept of truth. However, all of them shared fundamental desire to live, love and find their own place in the new era.
Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred years ago.
When social upheaval sweeps Russia in the early 20th century, Czar Nicholas II resists change, sparking a revolution and ending a dynasty.
In 1899 staat de Republiek op ontploffen. Het lijk van een onbekende vrouw dat in de Seine wordt gevonden, brengt een ambitieuze jonge inspecteur tot een crimineel onderzoek dat een zwaar staatsgeheim aan het licht brengt.
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Het verhaal van JM Barrie en zijn relatie met de familie Llewelyn-Davies. Barrie schrijft PETER PAN voor de vijf jongens, en adopteert later George, Jack, Peter, Michael en Nicholas.
Children of Fire Mountain was a 13 part miniseries from New Zealand.
Sons and Lovers is a 1981 BBC television serial based on the D. H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers. It starred Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson and Lynn Dearth. It was adapted by Trevor Griffiths and directed by Stuart Burge. It aired in the US as part of the PBS's Masterpiece Theatre program in 1982.