"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The genre of period films often conjures up scenes from the 1800s, with full gowns, rolling hills, and ...

Downton Abbey has all the virtues of a cinematic period piece of the kind that rose to critical and box office prominence in the ‘80s and ‘90s before somewhat falling out of fashion. Nostalgia for the ...

In the 1990s, a trend emerged in Hollywood that saw multiple studios attempt to build franchises out of period action thrillers, specifically set in the 1930s or 1940s, based on classic pulp comic ...