Complete collection of episodes from the television period drama and the 2019 film 'Downton Abbey the Movie' which follows on from events in the series which follows the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home. In the first series, set before World War I, the Grantham family, long-time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the Titanic. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley Hugh Bonneville, the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest daughter off in order to obtain an heir. Meanwhile, the family's determination to cling to class and rank is mirrored in a number of growing rivalries between the servants which threaten to undermine the smooth running of the house. In the second series, with the outbreak of World War I, Matthew Dan Stevens and Thomas Rob James-Collier are off fighting at the Somme, while both Lord Grantham and William Thomas Howes feel frustrated at being