Bright Young Things: The Infamous Mitford Sisters
UK programs depicting the Mitford sisters and others in the Bohemian social circle known as the Bright Young Things
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- StarsAlan BatesAnna PopplewellJemima RooperIn 1930s Britain, three young aristocratic women find love as the world around them slowly descends into war.
- StarsJudi DenchMichael AldridgeMichael WilliamsTwo cousins come of age in the early twentieth century, but fate leads them down very different paths.
- StarsLily JamesEmily BeechamDominic WestSet in Europe before World War II, the story follows the adventures of charismatic, fearless Linda Radlett and her best friend/cousin Fanny Logan. Consumed by a desire for love and marriage, each seeks out the ideal husband.
- DirectorStephen FryStarsStephen Campbell MooreEmily MortimerDan AykroydAn adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
- StarsJonathan CakeJemma RedgraveHugh BonnevilleAn account of the colourful life of the infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley, concentrating on the period between the end of WW1 and his imprisonment at the beginning of WW2.
- DirectorEdward CotterillStarsRachael StirlingLaura ThompsonBenjamin TreuhaftThe Mitfords were six, witty, eccentric and beautiful sisters. For two, their personal lives strayed into the political: Diana the fascist and Jessica the communist. But they were also shaped by experiences more familiar to us all - the trials and joys of family, of love, of grief, and of sisterhood.
- DirectorRichard BondStarsRamon TikaramAdolf HitlerUnity MitfordThe story of Unity Mitford, the young and unsteady British aristocrat who fell for Hitler during the 1930s.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsLesley-Anne DownIngrid PittClare HigginsPeriod Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorJonathan GiliStarsVivian Forbes AdamMartyn BeckettLady Bowman1939 was the last year debutantes were presented at Buckingham Palace before World War II. This documentary interviews many of the women presented that year, upper class British nobility among them, and lets the women and their husbands (now in their later years) look back and tell their stories of that time and what happened to them during and after the war. A clear eyed look at life in Britain among the upper class with excellent archival footage from the era. Elisabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland; Kathleen Kennedy; Unity Mitford; Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, and other notables are included.
- DirectorJeremy DysonStarsRebecca FrontSharon HorganSamantha SpiroRebecca Front returns as the long-suffering psychiatrist holding therapy sessions with some of history's most iconic women.Nancy Mitford, Unity Mitford, Jessica Mitford