Movies and TvShows featuring "historical-setting" theme.

Set in 1930s London, Upstairs Downstairs follows the lives of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their domestic workers. The series delves into the complexities of class differences, family relationships, romance, scandal, and racial issues during the interwar period in England.

In 1348, as the Black Death spreads across England, a young monk is sent on a mission to investigate rumors of a remote village unaffected by the plague. He soon discovers that the village has made a pact with a necromancer, who is using the plague to carry out acts of witchcraft. Faced with both the brutality of the plague and the terror of the supernatural, the monk must confront his own faith and beliefs to survive.

What the Future Holds is a drama TV show set in 1960s Barcelona, Spain during the Francoist regime. It follows the life of an informant involved with the communist party who leads a double life while navigating love, friendship, ambition, and betrayal.

A Field in England is a surreal and psychedelic historical drama set in 17th-century England during the English Civil War. The film follows a group of deserters who find themselves trapped in a mysterious field while searching for a hidden treasure. As they journey through the field, they encounter hallucinations, chaos, and an occultism that tests their friendship. With elements of folk-horror and satire-comedy, A Field in England explores themes of insanity, spirituality, and the dark side of human nature.

An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.

Adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. In mid-19th century Yorkshire, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her. Ill-treated by Thornton's bitter and vindictive wife Anne, who views Hannah only as evidence of her husband's infidelity, she is married off to the village butcher, whose waspish mother torments her further. But through her patience, intelligence and strength, she wins her freedom and the man she loves.

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

The film, taking place in 1950, presents the story of Father Leopold and the monks of his order struggling to once again revive Christianity in a country trying to scrape itself together after the war. Initially, the communist powers do not hinder their work, and the Church was even able to regain possession of holy objects hidden during the war. This "peaceful" state does not last long. Father Leopold is arrested on trumped up charges, and in order to break him, he is subjected to cruel torture. His former student, Lieutenant Keller, who turned his back on religion and now believes in the socialist system, is appointed - upon the command of Major Fyodorov - to extract a confession of guilt. But the Father's perseverance and resistance changes everything.

Astounding stories by women born in the USSR, pioneers and survivors, that reveal their heroic experiences from the time of the Revolution in 1917 to the present day through personal testimonies and intimate conversations with remarkable women and unseen archive footage. It opens a door to their inner thoughts, feelings, fears and hopes. Their experience foreshadowed that of women of today and yet their fate is also the story of their century.

During the American Civil War, two individuals from different backgrounds find love amidst the chaos and turmoil of the war. Their relationship is tested by the challenges of the time, but their love perseveres.