List of Costume Drama Fandoms
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A costume drama or period drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture the ambience of a particular era.
A lot of costume drama fandoms are television and film adaptations of novels.
Note: What constitutes inclusion on this list may vary among fans.
- Age of Sail fandoms
- Black Sails
- Horatio Hornblower (the series with Ioan Gruffud)
- Master and Commander
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Sharpe
- Alexander (2004 film)
- Deadwood
- Downton Abbey
- The English Patient
- Fandoms based on novels or on the television and film adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen
- Gosford Park
- The Hour
- Jane Eyre (various adaptations)
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990s television adaptation) - a TV series based on the short stories and novels of P.G. Wodehouse
- Ladyhawke (medieval fantasy film)
- Merlin (TV series)
- Les Misérables (2012 musical adaptation)
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- North and South (2004 adaptation)
- Robin Hood adaptations
- Rome
- The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
- Sherlock Holmes adaptations
- Troy (film)
- The Tudors
Other fandoms with nifty costumes:
- Blackadder - a British sitcom; each season is set in a different historical period
- Doctor Who - science fiction, but a lot of episodes take place in Earth's past
- Torchwood - contemporary, but the main character dresses in period costume