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Inside British Country Homes in the Early 1900's
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Secrets of the Manor House looks beyond the fiction to the truth of how life was in these ancient British houses, and how mounting financial, political and social pressures were about to bring momentous changes to both the wealthy and their servants.
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Inside British country homes in the early 1900's.
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[United States] : - PBS Home Video
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Widescreen version
ISBN:
9781608836550, 160883655X
Language:
English
Performers:
Narrator: Samuel West.
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DVD, widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Pioneer Film and Television Productions Limited ; produced and directed by Susannah Ward
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1 videodisc (60 min.) :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in.
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Secrets of the Manor House looks beyond the fiction to the truth of how life was in these ancient British houses, and how mounting financial, political and social pressures were about to bring momentous changes to both the wealthy and their servants.
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Add a Commentinteresting doc about the era of the wealthy, land-owning aristocracy and their manor homes and the many servants that it took to run them, and how it all begins to fall apart.
With Downton fever about, this brief documentary really pulls together the best elements of the overall structure & history of this unique period. What I love is they visit Manderston, which was the location for Manor House series.
This fits right into the background of Downton Abbey.
PBS has a well deserved reputation for doing documentaries right, and that certainly holds up here. This concerns itself with the manor house lifestyle primarily in the Edwardian era. It examines the period through the social, political, and economic aspects, giving plenty of background on the aristocratic system in England and the life of the servants who kept such places running, stressing the rigid status that had to be adhered to. The documentary also explores the reasons for the decline of the manor society in the wake of monumental change. Highly informative and well worth having a look.