Anne of Green Gables is Canadian, not American just btw!

I literally screamed and clapped when you put P&P as number one! Can't believe it's considered controversial in this messed up world to stan such a perfect piece of art.

Nobody has known true sadness until they have sen Beth's death in Little Women - the 1994 version, of course

P&P 2005 is my “calming” movie. I watch it when i’m so stressed/anxious and i just want to escape reality and cozy up on the couch. I love it so much it’s ridiculous, i actually know most scenes by heart now! I 2994839392% agree with your choice!

"I don't know what is correct, and I don't care to learn" a big fat mood

Me: a brown girl who would NOT survive back in the day Also me: I AM Elizabeth Bennet

Have you seen North and South? it's amazing

Re: P&P kissing scene. That's just the standard American ending. I didn't know it was an alternate. We didn't get a choice. I thought it was a bit weird, but I guess I'm used to it now.

You must watch Gentleman Jack I was v offended that this wasn’t on the list (18th/19th century lesbians yes pls)

Brace yourself, this might shock you: in the American version of Pride and Prejudice the “Mrs. Darcy” kissing scene is just in the film. It’s not deleted or extra, it’s just in there. I can’t speak to whether or not I like it because it’s just always been there, part of the movie!

Definitely feel like Gentleman Jack should have been on this list! (Or at least an honourable mention) But I agree with most of these nonetheless! (AlsoMr Selfridge is so underappreciated thanks for mentioning it at the end 😌

my kind of content!! i couldn't agree more on how pride and prejudice 2005 is the perfect film, i remember watching the rain scene OVER AND OVER AGAIN as a teenager and i still feel GOOSEBUMPS

2005 P&P is my favorite thing ever- as in I keep a DVD at my house, at my boyfriend's house, and have a digital version on my phone/laptop so that if the need strikes, I can watch immediately. the opening scene with the birds chirping and the first few piano notes is just instant relief/comfort also, the young victoria with with emily blunt is amazing, and wickham from '05 P&P plays albert with a german accent. I have a not-so-great relationship with my mother too and it's so cathartic to see her literally become queen and be like peace out, mother

these rapid fire comedic gems in between brilliant period drama recommendations are definitely the reason I love your channel so so much!

Ummmm Anne of green gables is Canada’s only achievement let us have it!!!!

The 2006 BBC Ruth Wilson/Toby Stephens adaptation of Jane Eyre BELONGED ON THIS LIST AMD I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THAT.

The fact that your put the 2005 P&P actually solidifies that you have perfect taste and you are 100% right, and I trust your judgement because it is indeed the perfect film. With that in mind, I will be checking out the rest of your recs!

The bonnet fastening with attitude tickled me from the off. No controversy on newcomer The Favourite, it is genius. I haven't seen the second series of Victoria, I must. Can't wait for the next series of The Crown, I would like Olivia Coleman to be in every TV show and film, ever. I need to FINALLY watch Outlander.

Just dropping in to mention Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery

I TOTALLY agree with you for your #1 choice. The cinematography, the music...it’s just so beautiful!

Excellent ranking, 100% agree and for all the same reasons. FYI that bust at the Royal Albert Hall is actually of Henry Wood who founded the proms!

Anne with an E is set in Canada. I love the new series but the original mini series is amazing as well. Anne is super slice of life and charming ☺️

What no Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility?!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!. It's like the perfect feel good costume drama that's perfectly casted.

My favourite is and will always be Downton (I’ve watched it 8 times now) & I just think it’s marvellous. I do also love Versailles (it’s so bad but so good) and I am loving Gentleman Jack! (I’m writing my BA thesis on all three so that shall be good fun!)

BROOKLYN OH MY GOD! That movie just gives me chills every time. I absolutely love it.

I totally recommend BBC's North and South! It's got a gorgeous soundtrack, amazing skirts, and a cute Richard Armitage with a top hat.

Aww, I was excited when you mentioned Anne with an E because I'm from Atlantic Canada, do most people think it's set in America?

Totally agree with the film P&P, think the soundtrack has some sort of hypnotic effect! However my top is North and South, love the book and how much clever economics Gaskell managed to sneak in - add in Richard armitage and you can’t go wrong

The fact that pride and prejudice is in the frist place makes me so happy. Its my favorite movie ever.

2005, Pride & Prejudice is a treasure. It is beautiful to look at, gorgeous piano score, seamless transitions, and a great bite size taste of Austen when you don't have time for a full series. Totally agree!

I've recently watched both the BBC version of P&P and also the 2005 version, and then randomly, in the middle of those, watched North & South which... can I just say... HOLY GUACAMOLE. That show has quite possibly the most romantic ending of any film/tv show ever. Also, I really found all the labour rights stuff fascinating, and also jeeeeez Richard Armitage

If you haven't watched it already you should give gentleman jack a go!

Yes Victoria and Poldark are mine and my mums favourites also Sanditon and Bridgeton ❤

Also Emma Thompson & Kate Winslet in the 1995 Sense and Sensibility, and Gwyneth Paltrow & Jeremy Northam in the 1996 Emma!!!

Pride 👏 and 👏 Prejudice 👏 2005 👏 (the alternative ending also scarred me 😭). I also loved The Duchess, but it's so sad 💔

ALSO if you're not watching Harlots, you should be. It's about 18th century sex workers and has pretty much an entirely female creative team so it's never male gaze-y and is one of the most nuanced portrayals of sex work I've seen on TV. Highly recommend.

As a chemistry student who loves dressing in all black, has pale skin, dark hair and some moles I definitely would get accused of witchcraft if I travelled back in time but damn it, I love a good (and sometimes a bad) costume drama.

No gentlemen jack?! If you haven’t seen it, I’d hIGHLY recommend it!!!!!!!!

This is the list I've been waiting my whole life for. I've watched 5 out of 10 of these already. Now I know what I going to be watching for the next month.

I’m so glad you love the P&P 2005!! Its so beautiful and I’ve seen it a million times.

My top two are Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson and the BBC miniseries of Emma with Romola Garai! Brooklyn is also beautiful and v close to my heart as a Northern Irish girl, and I actually honestly really love the Keira Knightley remake of Anna Karenina.

Ok so this list was already going so well, and then I saw number one and i screamed, I can't tell you how many times I have watched Pride&Prejudice, yes yes yes tot this video!

Anne with an E is so so beautiful and sweet! I am also a huge fan of Black Sails and it has directly resulted in me having a more than slight pirate aesthetic to my wardrobe

I am totally here for this content. Please, more Period piece movie videos from you! As for the list I was surprised by some of the movies but also I just want to hear your thoughts on ALLLLL the movies ✌🏼

You may have found your calling - I certainly can’t resist your lists and witty repartee!

My all time favourite costume drama TV-series is Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)

I literally love this video, I need all historical drama videos. Pride and prejudice (2005) is my love!

I rewatched Brooklyn yesterday! It's soooo goood!!!

this is such an entertaining video omg i love ur voice and ur slang

Omg Lex I love you. Your thoughts on Pride & Prejudice are my thoughts exactly like, word for word.

I actually love that last scene in P&P! But I agree, I love the 2005 Keira Knightley one so much.

OMG THAT SCENE WITH THE DOG IN WAR & PEACE I CAN't

i feel v passionately that north and south and gentleman jack are two of the greatest period dramas of our time

The Keira Knightly Anna Karenina is honestly pretty amazing too. That soundtrack? And it’s so fucking weirdly ‘staged’... I likes it.

Thank you, I added "The Favourite" (2018), "Marie Antoinette" (2006), Poldark Season 1-5, The.Crown Season 1-2, and "Pride and Prejudice" (2005), to my collection, now lets just see if I can find the attention span, energy or time to watch them.

While the 2005 version of P&P was beautifully shot and has a gorgeous soundtrack, I much prefer Keira Knightley in The Duchess and Atonement. (We don't speak of Anna Karenina, she was utterly miscast is that one.) And nobody in this whole world will ever top young Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, I am sorry, it cannot be done. The BBC P&P mini series is perfection to me. I love the realism and accuracy of their outfits, I love every single casting choice, I love how much they respected the book while still taking a few artistic liberties and inserting some eye candy scenes, I just love the feel of it all. Me and my mum rewatch it every year, I think we both know it by heart at this point. I've known it since I was little, so my bias is evident, but it's my happy place so... a raise of hands, anyone who feels the same? My top 10 or top 20 varies every year, but this one will always stay at no.1.

I've just started Outlander! It's so good :D Grand ol' list. I agree with all of it, except I would've had Wuthering Heights with Charlotte Riley and Tom Hardy in it as my number 1

Leeeeex. This is my video. I am here for this. But also watch ‘the book of negroes’ and ‘palm trees in the snow’. Great films!!

I’m so with you on your choice for number 1. I think it’s a generational thing... I was like weeks old when the BBC one came out so didn’t see it until much later when Netflix became a thing, but obviously the 2005 version I saw in the cinema and it sparked a lifelong love ❤️

I beg you to do a second one of these... please

Lex, you’re amazing 😊💖

Lex, I really REALLY think you'd love Black Sails. Maybe consider giving it a watch? It's got so much of what you're after - trust me.

It's one of those videos that I don't think I have any particular interest in since I'm still a bit traumatised by trying to force my way though Pride and Prejudice, thus making me completely resent anything that has to do with it and having every mention of an Austen novel make me want to set my self on fire. But despite all that, I am swooning over Lex and her love for these movies during this entire video so darn it, I think I'm back into costume dramas yet again because a charming lady on youtube convinced me it is my deepest wish.

Pride and Prejudice is without a doubt the movie I have watched the most times in my life of my own volition. Rainy day? Whack it on! Summer break? Whack it on! Crushing hard? Whack it on! Broken heart? Whack it on! Existential crisis? Whack it on! It's always appropriate.

Tipping the Velvet ... I'm not sure if it is actually as good as it seemed to me. But it was such a big discovery because I had never consumed any media where women love women before I found Tipping the Velvet.

NEED to know if you remember where you got your top from? this entire look is EVERYTHING

I'm not even mad about you saying Anne with an E is American bc I'm just so ecstatic you included it and it was number 3

Also, your comments on Marie Antoinette, when my favourite film (and book, to be totally honest) has always been The Virgin Suicides, made me feel called out but validated at the same time.

Yes I fecking hate poldark, but Demelza is the best! And the doctor is pretty good

Amazing Grace is another amazing costume drama! Also Sense and Sensibility BBC version

YES I love you for making Pride and Prejudice (2005) #1 on your list! I was waiting the whole time for you to say that because it totally is the perfect film. Controversial opinion: I don't mind the end scene where they are kissing, I think it's a cute slice of married life.

Everything you said is spot-on and I love everything! 😍🤓👩🏻‍💻👍🏽🥰

If you like Pride and Prejudice and The Duchess, you should definitely watch Atonement! It has Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan in it and is absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking. The book is brilliant as well.

Not sure why but I get this little frisson when you say "wank".

P&P 2005 is awesome! I love both the film and the BBC series very much (although the film really screwed with Lizzie's parent's relationship imo). For me the best costume drama is North & South with Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage. It is perfect and I love it and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Brooding Richard Armitage is without a doubt the best costume drama romantic lead in the history of all costume dramas. It is BEAUTIFULLY shot, so well acted and I loved it more than the book (which is worth a read, v.good).

Pride and prejudice is indeed the perfect film thank you for acknowledging

Anne lives in PEI!!! Small island province in Canada

"[Spoiler], with [Spoiler], is the perfect film." THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH. What are your thoughts on Atonement? James McAvoy + Keira Knightley = a resounding YES from me.

Completely agree with everything you said re Pride & Prejudice (2005). Apparently that alternate ending is the American version because American audiences couldn't deal with no kiss?! Weird x

YESSSS OUTLANDER!!!!

This is a great list and gave me recommendations and I'm excited to check them out In the spirit of that: Where the FUNCH is Gentleman Jack on this list

Anne with an E is set in Canada!!!!!! Girlllllllllll there’s a whole part of PEI tourism that revolves around red haired wigs! Speaking of works inspired by author Lucy Maud Montgomery - check out the Road to Avonlea TV series that Canadians grew up with in the 90s. Stunning. I’m seriously so shook right now, I can’t believe a British person didn’t pick up on the obvious Canadian-ness of Anne of Green Gables... like there are Union Jacks and references to the British Empire in the 19th c schoolrooms....

I was watching in horror while you've been getting closer to the end of the list without any Jane Austen baby in it. Let me tell you, number one was such a relief! And I agree - if you've been blessed with not knowing the American ending of the movie, DO NOT ruin it.

Parades End and the Bletchley Circle are great too! Pride and Prejudice with Keira is 100 times better than the BBC version don’t @ me. 🥴

OMG Yes! Same!!! Pride and Prejudice 2005 is THE BEST!!!!

I lloooovvveeee the favorite!!!

I love your accent! :)

My no. 1 is Larkrise to Candleford

Are you watching sanditon on itv at the moment? I’m really enjoying it.

I haven't seen The Favourite or Anne with an E yet, otherwise I agree with your pick 100%.

what about gentleman jack tho??

This ranking was perfect. The End.

‘The show should be called Demelza’ yyeeeeeessssss

Anne of Green Gables is like one of the most iconic Canadian works of literature and it hurt my heart a little to hear you say it was American.

Lex you are extremely pretty ❤️

Okay, I know Sanditon hasn't fully aired yet but I would love to know your opinion of it!

I had the exact same experience with Pride and Prejudice! BAH how could they ruin it like that! I bought the dvd when I was maybe 16 and also probably screamed in horror when that atrocity happened at the end.

Anne of Green gables is set in Canada.

WATCH GENTLEMAN JACK. Also The Borgias and Versailles.

Boy I did not expect to get so offended that you said Anne with an E is American lol. Anne of Green Gables is like 90% of our tourism on PEI