All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Matthew Macfadyen, ranked

The year is 866, and the Great Heathen Army’s arrival in Britain is about to redefine the relationship between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. An earl of that name lived and ruled Bebbanburg and Northumbria during the reign of Æthelred II, though about a century after the setting of The Last Kingdom.

Since her birth in 1805, twenty-one years prior, Amy Dorrit has lived in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt, caring for her father, William, who now enjoys a position of privileged seniority as the Father of the Marshalsea. To help her family, Amy works as a seamstress for Mrs. Clennam, a cranky, cold and forbidding semi-invalid living in a crumbling home with servants, the sinister Jeremiah Flintwinch and his bumbling wife, Affery.

The Pillars of the Earth is set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart. Against the backdrop, love-stories entwine: Tom, the master builder, Aliena, the noblewoman, the sadistic Lord William, Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack, the artist in stone work and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse.

The life of a novelist unfolds across different decades and locations, ranging from 1920s Paris to 1950s New York and 1980s London. During this journey, encounters with notable figures such as Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor— the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson—shape the course of the novelist’s experiences.

After the Watergate scandal of 1972 and his subsequent resignation in 1974, 400 million people worldwide tune-in to watch Nixon leave the White House. Nixon’s literary agent, Irving Lazar, believes the interviews would be an opportunity for Nixon to salvage his reputation and profit financially.

In 2001, at the height of the public obsession with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, The morning after Ingram bumbled his way to a million pounds, broadcaster ITV and production company Celador realized something had been amiss: a series of coughs by the Ingrams’ alleged accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, may have led Ingram to the answers.

In 2001, at the height of the public obsession with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, The morning after Ingram bumbled his way to a million pounds, broadcaster ITV and production company Celador realized something had been amiss: a series of coughs by the Ingrams’ alleged accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, may have led Ingram to the answers.

Howards End examines the changing landscape of social and class divisions in turn-of-the-century England through the prism of three families: the intellectual and idealistic Schlegels, the wealthy Wilcoxes from the world of business and the working-class Basts.

The series delves into a sequence of peculiar events surrounding the phenomena identified as ‘The Enfield Poltergeist,’ which unfolded at a council house between August 1977 and 1979.

Set in 1943, when the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. But they face an impossible challenge – to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre. It falls to two brilliant intelligence officers to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war.

In the year 1199, Robin Longstride serves as a common archer in the army of King Richard the Lionheart. After chasing Godfrey away, Robin decides to take advantage of the situation by having his men impersonate the dead English knights to return to England. Before they depart to sail across the Channel, Robin promises one of the dying knights, Sir Robert Loxley, to return his sword to his father in Nottingham.

In the Russian Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed Dolly, banishes her unfaithful husband Prince Stephan Stiva Oblonsky. Stiva’s sister, Anna Karenina, a socialite living in Saint Petersburg with her older husband Count Alexei Karenin, and son Seryozha, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive her husband.