The Story of the Costume Drama

PBS’s five-episode series goes behind the scenes of some of PBS’s most popular and ornate television epics, including Brideshead Revisited, I Claudius, Pride and Prejudice, The Jewel in the Crown, Doctor Zhivago, Elizabeth I, Upstairs, Downstairs, and many more. Keeley Hawes narrates. Ali Alderson and Kerry Allison direct. 2008. Acorn Media (acornonline.com). —Nancy Ford