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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Stephen Dillane, ranked
Having lived on the edge in London, Rona endeavors to reconcile with her tumultuous past. Seeking solace, she returns to the untamed beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, her childhood home, in the hope of finding healing.
The series chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
London teenager Alex Rider is recruited by the Department of Special Operations, a subdivision of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to infiltrate a controversial corrective academy for the wayward offspring of the ultra-rich.
Set mainly in 1913, the film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win the U.S. Open. Amateur golf in that era was a sport only for the wealthy, and Ouimet came from an immigrant family that was part of the working class. In the 1913 US Open, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.
In London in 1872, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon, is found not guilty by reason of insanity for killing an innocent stranger, George Merrett, and is sent to Broadmoor. Some Oxford University Press oversight committee members are contemptuous, but Freddie Furnivall describes their current abject defeat, saying that the extraordinary Murray may be what they need.
In Denmark, Prince Hamlet finds himself involved in a conspiracy of powerful interests within the royal palace. Cruel uncle Claudius kills his brother and takes the power of the kingdom. After an encounter with the restless ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet feigns madness and plots to take vengeance.
This is a retelling of the infamous murder of Barbara Daly Baekeland, which occurred in an upscale London apartment on November 17, 1972. The violent act generated a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most unforgettable American tragedies.