Best 19Th Century TV Shows

2017 • Rating 8.7 • drama, family

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.

Genre: Drama, Family

Style: Psychological

Audience: Date Night, Family, Teens

Plot: Based On Novel Or Book, Canada, Friendship, Unrequited Love, Coming Of Age, Orphan, Period Drama, 19Th Century, Found Family, Period Piece

Time: Year 2017, 2010S, 2017-03-19

Place: Canada, English, Portuguese

Cast: Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, Lucas Jade Zumann, Joanna Douglas

2023 • Rating 7.4 • drama, crime, war & politics

In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.

Genre: Drama, Crime, War & Politics

Style: Gritty, Mind Bending, Surreal, Suspenseful

Audience: Adult, Date Night

Plot: Italy, Biography, Turin, Based On True Story, Courtroom, Turin Italy, Legal Battle, Woman Lawyer, 19Th Century, Legal Drama

Time: Year 2023, 2020S, 2023-02-15

Place: Italy, Italian

Cast: Matilda De Angelis, Sara Lazzaro, Eduardo Scarpetta, Pier Luigi Pasino, Nika Perrone, Sinead Thornhill