The Past, Dramatised

A man is betrayed on his wedding day and spends fourteen years deciding who pays.

A woman wears a letter for her sins, while the father keeps his own secret.

Five aristocratic families attend high-society parties in Saint Petersburg while Napoleon marches a massive army toward their front doors.

Nineteen years for a loaf of bread; a lifetime spent running from the law.

A horse recounts his life of service, stable politics, and why humans should definitely avoid tight reins.

One king, a round table, and a collection of knights who mostly just hit each other.

A new soldier joins the army expecting glory. He gets mud, shells, and a sudden desire to run.

Two decades later, the gang reunites to save a king and dodge civil war.

An orphan survives a murderous uncle and a slave ship only to be framed for murder in the Scottish Highlands.

Two identical boys swap clothes, forcing a Prince into the slums and a pauper onto the English throne.

An aristocrat returns to Paris during the Terror, a vengeful knitter tracks his lineage, and a lookalike settles a debt.

Knights errant, runaway sparrow-hawks, and swords for bridges: the standard operating procedure for Arthur's table.

A mining engineer swaps his uniform for a tweed suit to stop a German intelligence plot.

A country boy arrives in Paris, insults three legends, and suddenly everyone is fighting for the Queen.

A scout, a Mohican chief, and a British major navigate a forest full of ambushes to save two kidnapped sisters.

A shipwrecked pirate charms a remote island community, ruins a local boy's social life, and triggers an identity crisis.

An archdeacon, a bellringer, and a poet obsess over a dancer while the cathedral watches a city outgrow its walls.

A farmer with Herculean strength falls for an outlaw’s captive daughter amidst an Exmoor landscape of highwaymen and political rebellion.

An epileptic prince returns from Switzerland to fix Russian society, but discovers society prefers its own destruction.

A Roman officer falls for a Christian hostage while Nero sings during a city-wide fire and feeds converts to lions.

A disguised King, a fiery cross, and an exiled lady collide in a mountain chase where honor outweighs every law.

An English soldier visits Scotland for a quiet holiday and accidentally joins a revolution to restore a king.

A fashionable dandy saves aristocrats from the guillotine; the French Republic is remarkably annoyed.

An Irish orphan wanders India as a Buddhist disciple while moonlighting for the British Secret Service during the Great Game.

A scheming bishop replaces the King of France with his identical twin, leaving the aging Musketeers to pick the wrong side.

A king wants to keep his throne, his nephew wants it back, and everyone is lying.

A giant king crosses a sea on foot while his sister’s wedding feast is ruined by a very angry brother.

A disinherited son, a disguised king, and a healer accused of witchcraft collide in the dust of a 12th-century tournament.

An aging musketeer finances a king's return while a young monarch finds thirteen million gold coins in his basement.

An ancestral curse requires blood to drink, but the Pyncheons settle for selling ginger-beer instead.

A bankrupt English king seeks a crown, an aging musketeer invests in a kidnapping, and Louis XIV learns to rule.

A naval officer trades his Jersey marriage for a French dukedom, only to find the revolution cares little for titles.

An astrologer predicts a child's doom, and the child obligingly goes missing for twenty years.

A girl loses her shoes, gains a pair, and teaches an entire village how to read.

A ward discovers his guardian is a murderer; now, he must choose a side.

An Icelandic lawyer tries to stop a blood feud with logic, but his neighbors prefer arson and axes.

A doctor is sold into slavery for treating rebels; he takes to the sea for payback.

A London citizen records a city’s disintegration as 1665’s plague empties the streets of the living.

A mountain holds a face, a man builds a house of marble, and time never stops turning.

A Jewish prince seeks vengeance against Rome, only to find a bigger revolution in Bethlehem.

Two Acadian lovers are separated by a mass deportation and spend a lifetime crossing a continent to find each other.

A marksman shoots an apple off his son's head. The governor files it under immediate regret.

A merchant's son goes to Scotland to fix his father’s ledger and meets a legendary outlaw with a sword.

Shadows of colonial New England, where reality is occasionally interrupted by ghosts, madness, and very stubborn men.

A lawyer-turned-actor taunts the aristocracy until the country literally explodes around him.

A miner returns to Nome to find his gold mine stolen by the very judge sent to protect it.

A collection of grim maritime encounters where treasure usually comes with a side of betrayal and a sharp dirk knife.

A century-old fortune, a shadowy Jesuit plot, and a cursed traveler collide as seven heirs race toward a multi-million-franc deadline.

A peasant girl saves the French crown, then tries to survive being a holy icon.

Two people drink a love potion, wreck their lives, and never once think of stopping.

A Fleet Street barber offers a very close shave while his neighbor sells the most popular, mysterious pies in London.

A man searches for his lost beloved in a dreamscape of ancient ruins, architecture, and obsession.

A soldier falls for a local heiress, but his secret mountain of debt is harder to hide than the romance.

A man inherits a hat, a curse, and a family property disaster that refuses to die.

An officer survives a Welsh social season and a Russian winter, only to lose a limb and his first love.

A girl likes a pilot, a pilot likes his plane, and a war changes the flight plan.

Paris is burning, the King is keeping a locksmith, and everyone is suddenly an aristocrat.

An Englishman wanders into a Mexican blood feud, and a very capable American brings extra ammunition.

A knight searches for his missing lady while Robin Hood trades ballad heroics for high-stakes partisan warfare in the 1260s.

A cavalry officer faces war, a secret engagement, and an unwelcome suitor named Lord Slubber de Gullion.

A Scottish exile finds a home in Quebec, but the Seven Years' War demands his allegiance.

A British agent and an American painter race through France while history falls apart around them.

A young laird risks the gallows to save a friend, only to be abducted by his own government.

Two identical women, one a princess and one a commoner, trade places to escape an unwanted marriage and an empty life.

A street singer lands the role of a lifetime, but the real drama happens off-stage.

Henry VIII needs a wife, Katharine Howard needs a miracle, and the past is uninvited.

A powerful Duke wants a woman for his collection. He forgets to consult her brother.

A spirited girl in Marblehead keeps secrets, dodges redcoats, and helps forge a new nation.

A noblewoman refuses her arranged marriage. Her spurned suitor brings a siege engine; she brings a fortress.

An exile returns to Renaissance Rome, finding that swords and politics make for very messy homecoming parties.

A young man enters the church to avoid love, but discovers the heart is poor at taking directions.

A farmer joins a rebellion but finds that dodging dragoons is less complicated than his love life.

A German spy drops into an English garden, not realizing the man he is watching is watching back.

A knight stalks the shadows of Rome while a woman with a lethal phial plays for keeps.

A Milanese tyrant steals a city and a wife, then learns that even his secretary has a breaking point.

An English traveler navigates a religious war, a girl in danger, and one very complicated family secret.

A vengeful jeweler plots to topple the Spanish regime by making its corruption so unbearable that the people finally explode.

Jane Seton is accused of witchcraft, while the King's Advocate treats the law like a blunt instrument.

A sea captain infiltrates Spanish occupied Flanders to steal the Duke of Alva's tax gold and his favorite daughter.

A merchant’s daughter navigates social ruin and the War of 1812 while her lover studies law under the disgraced Aaron Burr.

A young knight vows to pluck German feathers, sparking a bloody cycle of kidnapping, revenge, and border skirmishes.

A student returns to Manila with European ideals, only to find the friars have buried his father and his future.

A girl is hidden in a dark house by a shadow. It is going to get complicated.