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The Evacuees

  • Category: Period Drama

Alan Parker's wartime classic. Two Jewish schoolboys are evacuated to Blackpool during World War II and struggle to warm to their surrogate mum.

The Evacuees is not currently available on demand.

  • Tenko

    Description: The lives of British women in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp; Category: Period Drama; 32 episodes available.

  • Lucan

    Description: Drama based on the true story of infamous aristocrat John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Agatha and the Truth of Murder

    Description: A woman makes an appeal to Agatha Christie for help in solving the murder of a nurse.; Category: Crime Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover

    Description: A beautiful young aristocrat embarks on a forbidden affair with a servant.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Cranford: Return To Cranford

    Description: Funny and touching drama about the lives of the people of Cranford.; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.

  • Upstairs Downstairs

    Description: At 165 Eaton Place, the fates of the servants and the family are intimately linked.; Category: Period Drama; 9 episodes available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Tide of Life

    Description: Stunning feature-length period drama following housekeeper Emily Kennedy.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown

    Description: Widow Riah Millican flouts convention by allowing her children to be educated.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets

    Description: Feature-length adaptation. A docker falls in love with a shipyard owner's daughter.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Black Candle

    Description: An enlightened mill owner faces problems when her sister marries badly.; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: The Man Who Cried

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 1 episode available.

  • Catherine Cookson: Dinner of Herbs

    Description: Feature-length TV versions adaptated from books written by the popular Tyneside novelist; Category: Period Drama; 2 episodes available.