Downton Abbey: Season 1

Winner of six Emmys, Downton Abbey is a dramatic examination of the wealthy Crawley family and the servants that look after them, set in the UK during the uneasy years leading up to the First World War. Stars Dame Maggie Smith, who picked up a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for her role.

"The Downton Abbey estate stands a splendid example of confidence and mettle, its family enduring for generations and its staff a well-oiled machine of propriety. But change is afoot at Downton — change far surpassing the new electric lights and telephone. A crisis of inheritance threatens to displace the resident Crawley family, in spite of the best efforts of the noble and compassionate Earl, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville); his American heiress wife, Cora (Elizabeth McGovern); his comically implacable, opinionated mother, Violet (Smith); and his beautiful, eldest daughter, Mary, intent on charting her own course." (Official Synopsis)

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