With Slean and Thane Scorann missing, Beowulf and Rate, Thane of the Varni, charge out into the forest in search of them. But with the Gathering fast approaching and Rheda's bid for leadership depending on the hope of ever-loyal Scorann's vote, Beowulf questions whether their disappearance might be more than a simple coincidence.

The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white. In this first episode of the five part series, Walter Hartright encounters a woman in the woods before arriving at Limmeridge. He falls in love with Laura Fairlie who is engaged to marry Sir Percival Glyde. Glyde's reputation is called into question by a mysterious letter.

In this episode, Nell Trent and her Grandfather depart their home in the middle of the night to avoid letting Daniel Quilp know of their location. Based upon the serial publication written by Charles Dickens for Master's Humphrey's Clock. This film adaptation stars Natalie Ogle, Trevor Peacock, and Sebastian Shaw.

Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. Kate and Mrs. Nickleby move out of their temporary lodgings with the kind portrait artist, Miss La Creevy. Kate begins her employment with Madame Mantalini and her crew of milliners. Young and pretty, Kate is assigned to work with Miss Knag in the shop, awkwardly helping rich, spoiled, women try...

Start to cheer and have no fear, because you'll hear the tale of the late King Lear. It may even bring a tear to your eye, as the Standard Deviants fly into the lies, spies, and family ties of one Shakespeare's most important tragedies. You'll learn the plot and whatnot, meet the king and other things, and greet the amazing feats of Lear and his buddies.

This series dramatizes Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children’s novel about an orphaned girl sent to live in her uncle's lonely house on the Yorkshire moors. In Episode Seven, Colin uses the power of magic and positive thinking to improve his strength, while pretending to still be an invalid. Archibald Craven dreams of his wife in the garden and Mrs. Sowerby sends him a letter requesting his return home. He arrives to find Colin, Mary, and Dickon...

Arriving in London, Tom Pinch accidentally meets Mrs. Jonas Chuzzlewit (nee Mercy Pecksniff) and is shocked to see that she has suffered at her husband’s hands. He sets up home in Islington with his sister Ruth and is promptly offered a librarian’s job at a most generous salary by a mysterious benefactor. In Wiltshire, Mary Graham receives news that young Martin’s property purchase in Eden has turned out to be a malarial swamp, but that he and...

The Burren is a wild and rugged land that is unlike anywhere else in Ireland. Lyndey Milan joins walking historian and naturalist Tony Kirby on a journey to learn of the tragic history of the famine roads, and taste the region's wild foods, before taking shelter in Cassidy's Pub to cook a restorative Irish goat stew. Then we'll sneak a peak into the kitchen of Finnish-born chef Mickael Viljanen, named Chef of the Year 2011 by Food & Wine magazine,...

In "Julius Caesar," Brutus upholds liberty against tyranny. But what is tyranny? Presenter Brian Cox examines how William Shakespeare's play challenges all political systems and all definitions of tyranny, challenging us to wonder how well we even know ourselves.

This film is a dramatization of George Eliot's novel of the same name. Set in Victorian London, Gwendolen Harleth is drawn to Daniel Deronda, a selfless and intelligent gentleman of unknown parentage, but her own desperate need for financial security may destroy her chance at happiness. In the third episode,the Grandcourt marriage occurs; acclaimed musician Herr Klesmer receives an invitation to hear Mirah sing; Daniel finds Mirah's brother Ezra;...