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Based on Sir Winston Churchill’s biography of his ancestors, the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, this classic BBC miniseries is a tender love story played out amid the intrigues of the 17th-century English court. At a time when most marriages were made for money and position, Sarah Jennings and John Churchill married for love. And their love lasted throughout their long lives ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Susan Hampshire, John Neville, James Villiers, John Westbrook, John Standing
Directed By: David Giles (III)

The miniseries that started in all! In 1969, an internationally acclaimed BBC show began airing on the fledgling public broadcasting network. The Forsyte Saga, in telling the remarkable story of a nouveau riche English family, introduced America to a new kind of TV. Millions of Americans devoted the next half-year of their lives to following the frank treatment of all sins, foibles and ...

Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth More, Susan Hampshire, John Welsh
Directed By: David Giles (III), James Cellan Jones

The miniseries that started in all! In 1969, a internationally-acclaimed BBC show began airing on the fledgling public broadcasting network. The Forsyte Saga, in telling the remarkable story of a nouveau riche English family, introduced America to a new kind of TV. Millions of Americans devoted the next half-year of their lives to following the frank treatment of all sins, foibles and peccadillos ...

Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth More, Susan Hampshire, John Welsh
Directed By: David Giles (III), James Cellan Jones

Alan Bates gives a fierce, uncompromising performance in The Mayor of Casterbridge, a skillful miniseries adapted from Thomas Hardy's classic novel. The arrogant Michael Henchard (Bates), in a foul drunken mood, sells his long-suffering wife Susan (Anne Stallybrass) and infant daughter Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor at a country fair. Henchard awakens the next morning stricken with ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Alan Bates, Janet Maw, Jack Galloway, Anne Stallybrass, Anna Massey
Directed By: David Giles (III)

The first two episodes of this BBC miniseries only hint at the delights to come. A lawsuit aimed at church reform in the town of Barchester forces a decent middle-aged clergyman (the august Donald Pleasence, best known in the U.S. for the Halloween movies) into a moral crisis and a conflict with his son-in-law, a pompous archdeacon (Nigel Hawthorne, The Madness of King George). ...

Starring: Donald Pleasence, David Gwillim, John Ringham, Joseph O'Conor, Clifford Parrish
Directed By: David Giles (III)

Starring: Oliver Rokison, David Horovitch, Polly Adams, Naomi Allisstone, Tiffany Griffiths
Directed By: David Giles (III)