Title from container. "Original UK edition"--Container. Widescreen. Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Siobhan Finneran, Joanne Froggatt, Thomas Howes, Rob James-Collier, Allen Leech, Rose Leslie, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Matt Milne, Lesley Nicol, Amy Nuttall, Maggie Smith, Dan Stevens, Penelope Wilton. Originally broadcast on British television (2010-2013) and as segments of the "Masterpiece classic" series of "Masterpiece theatre."
Summary:
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above. SEASON 1: After a tragedy at sea claims the life of the presumed heir, Lord Grantham is faced with the possibility that his beloved Downton might someday belong to a distant cousin he's never met. The house has been home to the Crawley family for generations but it is also where their servants live, plan, and dream. The difference is they know so many of the family's secrets, while the family know so few of theirs. Pitting hundreds of years of British aristocracy against the tides of social upheaval and technical progress, under the looming shadow of World War I, will the fate of Downton and its inhabitants -- above and below the stairs -- be resolved? Or will this way of life be altered so dramatically that its master no longer matters? SEASON 2: The Great War rages across Europe, and Downton Abbey is not left untouched. Triumph and tragedy, romance and passion, scandal and betrayal are all in play. The intertwined lives of the Crawleys and their servants are complicated by the storms of war, and when these have finally cleared, will life as they know it have changed forever? SEASON 3: The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
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