Fully restored including a 30 minute retrospective documentary. This BAFTA and Emmy award-winning BBC series ranks as one of the greatest ever television adaptations. Returning to the original negatives the classic drama has now been painstakingly restored frame-by-frame. Colours are now rich and vivid and 5.1 audio has been created from the original sound tracks.

The arrival of the wealthy Mr Darcy in the neighbourhood causes great excitement within the Bennet family. One of her five daughters, Mrs Bennet feels, is sure to capture the heart of the wealthy young aristocrat…

Amid a host of delightful characters, and against a background of grand stately homes and beautiful countryside, this famous romance runs its rocky course.

“Jane Austen's classic novel of 1813, Pride and Prejudice, still wins the hearts of countless schoolgirls with its romantic story of Elizabeth Bennet and her Mr. Darcy.Now, the 1996 BBC miniseries is winning over adults, with its faithful adaptation, gorgeous scenery, and superb acting.”Jenny Brown

Awards

• 1996 Won BAFTA TV Award Best Actress, Jennifer Ehle
• 1996 Nominated BAFTA TV Award Best Drama Serial, Best Actor Colin Firth, Best Actor Benjamin Whitrow, Best Costume Design, Best Make Up/Hair
• 1996 Won Banff Rockie Award Best Mini-Series
• 1996 Won Broadcasting Press Guild Award – Best Drama Series/Serial, Best Actor Colin Firth
• 1996 Won Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design
• 1996 Won TCA (Television Critics) Award – Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials
• 1996 Won – Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award TV – Dramatised Serial

Review
By filmcritic.com
"Most film adaptations of classic books are inferior to the books they are based on. This is partly because the written word allows more nuance than the camera, but also because great books don't always have enough plotting or action to make great movies, and film adaptations often overcompensate by rewriting the book in a quest to make it more cinematic…So it's an achievement when a famous book makes it to the big screen, or the small screen, intact – and kudos must go to the A&E/BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice for flawlessly recreating the classic Jane Austen novel. This production is as faithful to the book as Cliff notes (though at five hours long, it's not much of a time-saver – you might as well read the book). The filmmakers fill in the off-camera scenes of the book so seamlessly that Austen might have written them herself.

The cast includes some BBC veterans and they are all excellent in this production, especially David Bamber as the oily Mr. Collins and Benjamin Whitrow as the ineffectual but loving Mr. Bennet. Firth is an obvious choice to play the awkward, haughty Darcy – the book doesn't give him much to do, except stand in the corner at parties and brood about sleeping with Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehle), but he does that pretty well. Firth may actually be the best screen Darcy ever (including Lawrence Olivier, who starred in a 1940 version of Prejudice).

…Warning: Pride and Prejudice is not for men (which is why I got my wife to contribute heavily to this review). There is no action in it, and the plot centers on marrying off daughters to British dandies. But guys, your S.O. will love it. Pride and Prejudice is where classic lit and chick lit meet – it's probably the only high-school English novel that teenage girls read for pleasure, and it deserves its popularity for being a readable classic which sympathetically presents a well-loved character. Likewise, this production deserves the accolades it received for its faithful translation of Austen's book to the screen." David Bezanson