The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.
The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17, 1971.
An epic saga of the Habdza family of vineyard keepers set in western Slovakian countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. Director Andrej Lettrich's novel adaptation talks of plotting, forbidden love. family discord, and struggle for heritage and power. The story is engaging thanks to the impressive performances of popular actors, dramatic situations, and sensitive music. Red Wine is not so much inventive in terms of auteurship as it is a work of excellent craftsmanship. The resulting picture is a costume production neatly adapted to the character of Slovak rural life in the past.
Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach.
The story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930.
Ce feuilleton se déroule dans le Québec rural entre les Première et Seconde Guerre mondiale, soit le temps d'une paix.
Elle met en scène quatre familles canadiennes-françaises : les Saint-Cyr, les Fournier, les Desrosiers et les Lavoie.
À la tête de la famille Saint-Cyr, Rose-Anna, veuve et mère de sept enfants, dont trois seulement ont survécu. Les Fournier sont une famille bourgeoise canadienne (française) type, composée du père, Cyprien Fournier, de la mère, Marie-Thérèse Fournier et de leurs deux enfants Benoît et Alexandrine.Les Desrosiers, Siméon est le père, Marie-Rose est la mère et la fille Marie-Des-Neiges. La famille Lavoie : le père, un fervent promoteur des idées politiques des "Rouges", Joseph-Arthur Lavoie a deux garçons, Valérien et Yvon.
The Gangster Chronicles is an NBC American television crime drama mini series starring Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Jon Polito, Louis Giambalvo and narrated by E.G. Marshall.
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy.
Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.
Une famille anglaise aristocratique est représentée dans les années entre la Grande Guerre et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, souvent au domaine familial en ruine, le Brideshead Manor, essayant de faire face aux problèmes familiaux comme l'alcoolisme, l'homosexualité, la manie religieuse et le dysfonctionnement sexuel et de trouver le "bonheur".
Italian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s.
The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and 1987.
The series was a period drama created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland and starred Nerys Hughes as Megan Roberts, the titular district nurse fighting to improve living conditions for the people living in a poverty stricken mining town, Pencwm, in south Wales during the late 1920s. The School scenes were filmed at Pont-y-gof school in Ebbw Vale, shortly before the old school was demolished. The children and teachers at the school were involved in the first two series. The outdoor school and street scenes were filmed at a small village near Tredegar. Most of the houses used have now been demolished, however the street still remains.
In the third series, shown in 1987 and set in the early 1930s, Megan had moved on to the seaside town of Glanmor where she worked with a father/son pair of doctors - Emlyn Isaacs and James Isaacs.
Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads.
En 1925, après la découverte d'un manuscrit sur une légende, Desmond Jordan, décide de partir au Sahara pour la découvrir. Il va y trouver l'amour mais aussi un ancien ami de la Légion qui cherche la même chose mais uniquement pour s'enrichir.
Cross of Fire is a 1989 American television mini-series based on the horrific rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer by D.C. Stephenson, a highly successful leader of the Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan. It was originally shown in two parts. In syndication, it is shown as a television movie.
You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. The show was a comedy set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the popular drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
The series featured many actors who had also appeared in their earlier series, notably Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland and Su Pollard, all of whom had previously been in Perry and Croft's holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!. Also featured were Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles from Perry and Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Bill Pertwee and occasionally Frank Williams from Dad's Army. The memorable 1920s-style theme tune was sung by Bob Monkhouse.
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.