Powder your wigs and button your doublets, it’s Showdownton Abbey time. We’re celebrating period films: historical dramas, Victorian chamber comedies, Shakespearean romps, E.M. Forster quip-fests, handmaidens’ tales and cinematic journeys to Austenland. Think immersive, transportive films in which the art, costume and makeup departments really earned their keep. This far into the 21st century, what even is period, anymore? For the purposes of this Showdown, we’ll accept any film set on Earth during WWII or earlier (sorry, Carol).
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Didacus 54 films

Jimi R 10 films

kristine ♡ 2 films

Zane 10 films

Em 10 films

urdummheiten 10 films

Jacob Peterson 10 films

ozmodiar 10 films

festerwretch 10 films

Kurosawa 10 films

s1em 10 films

V. Vargas 10 films

Ivan 10 films

aobh 23 films

Albie Hay 89 films

Ben Harman 10 films

Macca1 10 films

Annikin 10 films

Charles O'Grady 16 films

StudioHibari 12 films

Hitchcock Barbie 10 films

Davormkd 10 films

funnybair 8 films

Lauren Stoolfire 10 films

Carleigh Smith 54 films

Melissa 90 films

Marcus Pagliarulo 10 films

anna 12 films

Sindre Haram 10 films

Anne Campbell 10 films

John Quinn 8 films

elvisisking 10 films

Scott Kelly 20 films

_ottavia_ 15 films

Eduardo Ramírez 53 films

Josh 9 films

Abdulatief Achour Almasri 32 films

kierstonwoodley 15 films

Nichtsbesondern 14 films

Saba Birkadze 6 films

Geoff T 15 films

Gabriel Jewett 5 films

captnspaulding 25 films

Andreas K 35 films

Nick FW 10 films

Julia <3 9 films

BmoreSmore 10 films

B S 10 films

Gabe murgatroyd 10 films

Ted C 7 films

eunan nwachukwu 224 films

Jo Brennan 18 films

Lucian 27 films

bas2804 16 films

Kelcey 10 films

Erik Vorhes 10 films

kelsey 16 films

Ruth Scouller 15 films

buzzedAldrin 12 films

scorpiofire 10 films

Chris Coke 25 films

lebc97 10 films

NotInChicago 9 films

John Roberts 10 films

Kyle 7 films

Daniel Holliday 5 films

Lovaloo 10 films

Angelo Cordeiro 10 films

Rod T 11 films

Barb Hoffman 10 films

beatlestw 40 films

Robert Shupe 10 films

Todd The Librarian 10 films

johnconn 15 films

kiki_witch 20 films

Clara 10 films

Romario De la Rosa 15 films

Rachel Mac 20 films

Stephen Hanson 10 films

Sam Holdren 14 films

Julia ✨ 11 films

patty hearst 15 films

Adam William 10 films

Gals 10 films

Ben, jamin. 10 films

franzi annasophie 43 films

Brett Hudson 10 films

Sophia Suazo 10 films

Logan Caldwell 20 films

Eduarda Sousa 15 films