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- Eli and Charlie Sisters, an infamous duo of gunslinging assassins, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally in 1850s Oregon.
- Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
- A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
- The Story of the Irish Famine of the 1840s.
- Thomas Dunson is a rancher at odds with his adopted son.
- A ghostly woman warns a beautiful Victorian heiress about a count, and a strange spell haunts a mansion and its inhabitants in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel.
- Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the next two years, the village is completely cut off. The women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband, so that life may continue to flourish in each of their wombs.
- The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.
- At times Heaven can open wide and release the souls wanting to find their way to where they once stood. Set in Ohio in 1851, this story reveals a family's secrets hidden for generations.
- Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
- Through a wealth of personal archive, the Prince Consort's influence in shaping Britain is revealed.
- In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted in the Austrian army. He chooses enlisting but this decision is weighing on his conscience.
- Princess Victoria Dock; 1851 home to Irish immigrants, unions, publicans, brothels and traders all making a living from the dock whilst charities try to save the fallen. Above all looms the figure of Mr Halton, master of the Dock.
- A Paris courtier is ridiculed because of his "unmanly profession."
- Patrick and McGivern seek a gold shipment stolen by a poetic bandit.
- Senator Dave Broderick and Justice David Terry are on opposite sides politically but also class background. After feeling publicly insulted Terry challenges Broderick to a duel but the senator has never held a gun.
- Chris Cobb is hired to ride to a gold mining area and collect all the gold. A bank assayer is meant to have ridden ahead to organize the load. However the man doing to organizing is not the right person.
- Oversimplified explains the Falklands War.
- The Doctor arrives in London on Christmas Eve in 1851 where he encounters the Cybermen and a man who claims he's a Time Lord called the Doctor.
- It's New Year's Day - and payday too but William is increasingly tormented by dreams in which he recalls how he was responsible for the death of young Harry and is unable to get into celebratory mood. This makes him fair game for the hectoring Andrew,leading to a fight in a frozen pond. Grace and George just about manage to keep their relationship a secret but Flora finds herself falling for butler Jarvis.
- 1949–1951TV Episode
- Gunny tries out the rifles of various eras that faced each other in battle to discover the advantages and disadvantages of each. With each pair Gunny explains the improvements that made the new rifles superior to previous weapons.
- The effect of great exhibitions on everyday life and design in the house, including still photos of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Excerpts from "Brief City," a 1952 documentary about The Festival of Britain, held in 1951, are shown. A study of French expressionist Bernard Buffet at work is seen as well.
- In the second half of the nineteenth century there was a tremendous demand for new housing in the United States particularly on the west coast. In the midst of this demand William Morris and Gustav Stickley in a rebellion against mass production developed the Craftsman Bungalow, a small, efficient, well-appointed, economic and popular design that was quickly adopted by mass producers.