Best Period-Piece Movies and TV Shows Last updated: August 1, 2025 From sweeping epics showing the rise and fall of empires, to character studies set against the backdrop of historical moments, these ...

A series that was inspired by a 1940 novel that has gone on to become one of the most popular books ever written is streaming ...

The main reason the HBO drama is the best period drama is the central plot. It is set in 1882, when Jacobson’s Marian travels to New York to live with her aunts and encounters the clash between the ...

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It is a true “period piece” about a moment in recent history, capturing the collective psychic shock that seemed to reverberate around the world during the early months of the pandemic. Conversations ...

'Aztec Batman' will bring a bold new reimagining of the caped crusader's mythos this September.

Aster confronts us with a thoroughly modern piece of existential dread that will send your brain racing and leave a heavy pit in your stomach.

Ari Aster’s new film Eddington is a lot of things. It’s a period piece set in May 2020, right as the COVID lockdown and mask mandates were being implemented. It’s a neo-noir revisionist ...

Gladys Russell's wedding dress in 'The Gilded Age' was inspired by Consuelo Vanderbilt, a real-life socialite of the era who ...