NPL Books into Films: Period Drama
Annotation:In 1919, eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspire with gamblers to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
Annotation:As Fascist laws are enacted in Italy, an aloof upper-class Jewish family open their garden to other Jews, bringing a youth into the sphere of a girl he has loved from afar.
Annotation:A 111-year-old man claims to be the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn and to have crossed paths with a number of legendary figures during his life in the Old West.
Annotation:A shipwrecked English navigator becomes a key player in a dynastic struggle between two lords vying to be Shogun of Japan.
Annotation:Four women who are disenchanted with their lives respond to a newspaper ad to spend a month at a castle in Italy.
Annotation:A Texan brings a society bride home to his ranch where she is unprepared for the animosity of his sister and the mistreatment of the Mexican-American workers.
Annotation:When the Kingsbridge Cathedral burns down in 1125, the Prior and his community join forces to build the most beautiful cathedral in England.
Annotation:In the Australian Outback, a young woman rebels against convention and the desire of her relatives that she marry a wealthy man and follows her dreams instead.
Annotation:A horse with crooked legs becomes a champion with the help of his owner, trainer and jockey.
Annotation:After World War I, a Frenchwoman learns that her fiancé may have been one of five soldiers bound and left to die under enemy fire as punishment for mutilating themselves in order to be discharged.
Annotation:A Montana minister and his two very different sons are united by their love of fly-fishing.
Annotation:An English doctor in Hong Kong forces his unfaithful wife to accompany him to a cholera-infested region of mainland China.
Annotation:In an Italian villa at the end of World War II, a nurse tends to a nameless burn victim who is her last surviving patient.
Annotation:A girl convinces a U.S. Marshal to help her hunt down the outlaw who killed her father.
Annotation:During the Civil Rights era in Mississippi, two black maids agree to talk to a writer about how they are treated by their white employers.
Annotation:An orphan raised in a house of petty thieves agrees to become a maid to a lady in order to trick her out of her inheritance.
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Books that have been made into period drama films, along with the DVDs for comparison.
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