The Confessions of Frannie Langton | In 1826, a London society couple are found stabbed to death. Suspicion turns on their maid Frannie Langton. | Nigel Egerton | March 8, 2023, on BritBox |
Marie Antoinette | TV series produced in France & co-written by one of the screenwriters of The Favourite. | Marie Frémont | March 19, 2023, on PBS |
Great Expectations | A new adaption of the Dickens story with Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham. | Verity Hawkes | March 26, 2023, on FX & Hulu |
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies | A prequel to the musical set in the 1950s. | Samantha Hawkins & Angelina Kekich | April 6, 2023, on Paramount+ |
Chevalier | Movie about the son of an African slave who rose to great heights in Marie-Antoinette's court as a violinist and champion fencer. | Oliver Garcia | April 21, 2023 |
Tom Jones | A new TV adaption of the 1749 Henry Fielding novel. | Hazel Webb Crozier | April 30, 2023, on PBS |
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story | Bridgerton prequel about Queen Charlotte's arrival to England. | Lyn Paolo | May 4, 2023, on Netflix |
Oppenheimer | Movie about American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer & the atomic bomb. | Ellen Mirojnick | July 21, 2023 |
Last Voyage of the Demeter | Based on a chapter, from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, set aboard a ship from Carpathia to London. | Carlo Poggioli | August 11, 2023 |
Queenie | TV biopic of Stephanie St. Clair, the "Godmother of Harlem," who was the most profitable female 'numbers banker' in the 1920s and '30s. | | September 1, 2023, on BET |
A Haunting in Venice | Kenneth Branagh takes on another Poirot mystery, now in post-World War II Venice. | Sammy Sheldon | September 15, 2023 |
The Color Purple | Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel set in the early 1900s. | Francine Jamison-Tanchuck | December 20, 2023 |
My Lady Jane | Comedy series about Lady Jane Grey, based on a series of YA historical fiction novels. | Stephanie Collie | 2023 on Amazon |
Shōgun | Miniseries, based on James Clavell’s novel, about an English sailor in 17th-c. Japan. | Carlos Rosario | 2023 on FX |
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan | The story of one of the Three Musketeers. | Thierry Delettre | 2023 |
The Three Musketeers: Milady | Sequel to 'D'Artagnan,' being filmed back-to-back. | Thierry Delettre | 2023 |
The Ballad of Renegade Nell | Miniseries about a female bandit during the reign of Queen Anne of England. | Tom Pye | Disney+ |
Banking on Mr. Toad | Biopic of writer Kenneth Grahame and the birth of his iconic story 'The Wind in the Willows.' | Vin Burnham | |
The Bastard | Set in 1755 about Ludvig Kahlen who cultivated the wild heath of Jutland. | | |
Belgravia: The Next Chapter | Picking up the story in 1871 with young Lord Trenchard, unaware of his true parentage. | | MGM+ |
The Buccaneers | A new adaption of Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel. | Kate Carin | Apple TV |
Chief of War | From the indigenous point of view, this TV series tells the story of the unification and colonization of Hawaii in the 18th century. | | Apple TV |
The Custom of the Country | TV series based the Edith Wharton novel about a woman who rises to the top of New York high society in the early 20th century. | | Apple TV |
The Decameron | Series set in 1348 during the Black Death. | Gabriella Pescucci & Uliva Pizzetti | Netflix |
The Diary | "In the early 1930s, a young man leaves Shanghai to come to Europe and reunite with the love of his life." | | |
Firebrand | A film about Queen Catherine Parr and Henry VIII's marriage. | | |
The History of Sound | Two young men fall in love during World War I as they record the lives & music of their American countrymen. | | |
Jeanne du Barry | Biopic of the last official mistress of Louis XV. | Jürgen Doering | |
Lee | Kate Winslet stars as war correspondent & photographer Lee Miller during World War II. | Michael O'Connor | |
Longbourn | The lives of the servants of Longbourn House, home to the Bennet family of Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice.' | | |
The Man Who Saved Paris | The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940's is asked by the government to restore the city's image after the Nazi Occupation. | | |
Napoleon | A Napoleon Bonaparte biopic directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix. | Janty Yates | Apple TV |
The Nightingale | The lives of two sisters living in France are torn apart at the onset of World War II. Based on Kristin Hannah's novel. | | |
Nosferatu | "A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him." | Linda Muir | |
Outlander: Blood of My Blood | Prequel series focusing on Jamie Fraser's parents. | | Starz |
Roosevelt | A biopic about President Theodore Roosevelt starring Leonardo DiCaprio. | | |
Seacole | The story of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who sought to work with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. | Luminita Lungu | |