Top 10 Facts Downton Abbey Got Right 

You missed one: The portrayal of the Spanish Flu. Even though Cora was much older than Lavinia, she lived through the plague while Lavinia did not. The Spanish Flu did routinely take young adults who were perfectly healthy to their deathbeds in as little as 36 hours. The age group was disproportionately affected. The quickness of the onset of Lavinia’s symptoms and subsequent death were heartbreakingly accurate.

I had to write an essay on period dramas for film studies and chose Downton. I then proceeded on 'forcing' myself to watch the first 3 episodes so I can write the essay... A day later and I binged the first 3 series. Hooked. Probably the best period drama ever! (mad men comes a close second)

I watched this show 13 times. yes all 6 seasons! it's one of the best shows ever made

10. The Titanic 9. World War I 8. views on technology 7. fashion 6. royal scandals 5. downstairs romances 4. class struggles 3. women's rights 2. british marrying rich americans 1. the entail

As a lifelong fan of Victorian and Early 20th Century architecture, I have always wondered what the lives of the Owners and occupants of these magnificent Estates and Castles were really like. Then came 'Downton Abbey'... I cannot begin to offer up enough Thank You wishes! God Bless Madam Maggie Smith! - you ROCK the world of Downton Abbey!

You might add that American heiresses married for a title - it was a two way deal. also, not ALL properties were entailed. Many didn't do it. The older ones were, but newer aristocrats whose fortunes and titles were based on the onset of the Industrial revolution and agriculture, didn't entail.

My favourite period drama!! And thank goodness they said 'Lord Grantham' and not 'Lord Robert'. It's amazing how many videos get it wrong 😂

Anyone else catch the quick clip from the Titanic movie durring #2?

ALL PRAISE Maggie Smith.

They had a historical advisor working with the show, that helped. lol

There are more stories. Romance between Lady Rose and the black singer Jack Ross, Barrow’s homosexuality, the decline of British aristocracy after WW1, and the approach of jazz.

Yesterday, I just finished rewatching 6 seasons, 52 episodes and 1 film of Downton Abbey. I miss the whole cast already. Easily one of my top 5 tv series of all time

Easily one of my all time favorite shows, I love Downton Abbey!

The producers also got the kitchen, food and meal services korrect.. and the medicine and state of hygiene and fear of disease

Omg.I didn't realize this was the heir that gave up the throne for Wallis Simpson. Outside of putting the first world war in 9 episodes,DA was always historically accurate and one member of the family or staff was always affected,eg. Mrs. Patmore's nephew Archie.I was so glad Robert solved that so delicately for her.

💖 Great show! I only wish they would have done more seasons.

My favorite of all period dramas! Partly because of close depiction of truth in acting, costumes, stories, etc! It even is an amazing show! Super excited for the movie! I hope they finish it soon! 😍😍😍

If you were ever to make a part 2, it would be a good idea to also mention Thomas being homosexual and the struggle he has to go through because of that!

As a HUGE Downton Abbey fan and history buff, this list is spot on!

Love Downton Abbey! Thank you for sharing and your picks/comments!

Favourite show❤️❤️

Top 10 Downton Abbey Episodes please! I know they don’t have names but it could be a great list!

FANTASTIC Job Ms.Mojo. 😁

Idk if anyone noticed this but the Turkish character "Kemal Pamuk" is given the surname "Pamuk". However, surnames weren't used in Turkey till mid-thirties. Yes, Pamuk is a real Turkish surname but no Turk would be using surnames in 1912.

This show is the best tbh

I miss this show so so much

I loved that show... very historical correct as you have pointed out... except... one funny error I found multiple times.. people were smoking filtered cigs... hahahaha... that was a post WWII invention....very minor... I'm sure smoking Lucky's was a worse option.

I was hooked the first season both this show andMad Men. I thought thank you shows for adults.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!

“Wait what? It still exists?”

Liked before watching Ms. Mojo loves Gossip Girl and Downton Abbey doesn't she?

I have 2 screen shots of a TV aerial and a security movement detector from DA.

The best show ever👌🏻

I wonder how Robert would have dealt with the 1936 abdication

What music was used for this video? It sounds nice.

Mary was always my favorite Crawley! She’s so savage

We're now on series 6 with just the finale left.We have to see the film afterwards!Brilliant!!!!

My friends love this show❤️❤️

I loved the episode when Mr. C almost got whacked by the hitmen ordered by the dowager countess in season 1.

Branson is just

Women's voting rights. Hrm-hm! At 7:46 Ms Mojo presumes to tell us about voting rights "in the Commonwealth" based upon those in Canada. Let's put it straight! Women in New Zealand had voting rights in 1893. Women in Australia could vote for Federal Parliament in 1902. By 1912, the UK was well behind. They certainly did not lead the way in countries of the British Empire.

Hello msmojo

This show is great

there was a tv show about how servants stopped being such a good job a girl who broke her leg was a maid, she stood with her leg on a stool to do her job, then was sacked for being LAZY

Quite the series. I was so sad to see it end. The two follow-up movies were most enjoyable.

Best PBS series ever written...could have watched it forever! I do own the complete series plus the movie. It's definitely the kind of worthwhile entertainment people need to be watching...not the junk that's out there with the "fake name" entertainment.

I mean they strived to make this show historically accurate with the wardrobe etc.

You forgot about poor Ethel when you were talking about illegitimate children. Her life was ruined.

Very good video in the most part. One error, however, was the reason for many of the old families to be in financial trouble. Between the First and Second Boer Wars and The Great War a large number of members of these aristocratic families perished. Remember that as a social class, Noblesse Oblige was very much a real and practiced ideal. The English Aristocracy lost a higher percentage of the men in the Boer Wars as well as both World Wars, often times without any opportunity for estate planning, and the death duties were ruinous. Some families lost 3 generations of heirs in sequence in the 4 years of the Great War alone. Those great Country Estates are also very expensive to operate. In today's money, Highclere Castle Estate costs somewhat in the region of £150,000 simply to maintain and operate. That amount is after tax. The blight was so bad it inspired Evelyn Waugh to write Brideshead Revisited to highlight the loss of the great estates.

The only person that knows the script of Downton Abbey far Better than I, might be Julian Fellows.

The movie was perfect!

The clothes!!!!!

I just got into this series because charlie cox in the first episode,I loved the whole series 💖 thanks to Charlie Cox 💝💖

Lady Sybil!!!!!!

One item I have always questioned is Thomas’ cigarettes, which always appear too long and with a modern white filter. I feel sure that cigarettes then were shorter and had - if any - a cork filter until the 50s or 60s.

"Grapefruit spoon, jam spoon.." "You damn fool, that's Lady Mary's Coke spoon!" Did people do coke in 1912?

THE ENTAIL MUST BE PRESERVED PEOPLE!!! Otherwise we wouldn’t have Downton Abbey stories.

The entire Downton Abbey story centred on the succession. The need for a male heir.

Wow

I love the first season the best. I watch it over and over. It’s amazing how that stupid entail is still in effect. How many historic homes might still be in families if women had run the finances?

They slipped a scene from Titanic in there?

;;p Wow I would have been more shocked if they missed any one of these facts in the series.

yess i Do agree with your picks, and that the Endtail still excist, the Dowager Countess of Grantham is always Right !!

I already know everything you mentioned here. Since Downton Abbey is a historical drama series, it has to be accurate otherwise it wouldn't be so successful and interesting to watch... ;) Ps. I love history. Sometimes the british politicians and aristocrats are very sexist and to old fashioned. I mean what would be wrong, if woman could inherit the title, the house and everything? Nothing would be wrong !! It's just the pigheadedness of the man and the politicians ! :(

I'm a middle child so my favorite was Edith.

Ironman 3 pays homage to Downton Abbey

There’s not much they got wrong IMO.

A minor addition. The german accent pf the royal family

I lost total Interest after 3rd season

Downton got everything right

The entail excludes women from an inheritance?

.........they should have been dirtier? Uh, no. Laundry and washerwomen and all that existed. People weren't wandering around in filth-encrusted clothing, bathing once a year. Good gods.

The Entail was a device in thev series that was used to create a storyline drama, in reality Lady Mary would be expected to marry within her class of a Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquess or Duke and she would then have moved into her husband's estate; thus having Mary be an hier to both Downton Abbey and that of her future husband's estate wolld have proved both over-whelming, impractical, and a robbery of her other siblings. Of course WW I killed off most of the aristrocrats of Great Britain and the changing influence of international world trade, especially agriculture, made these pocket estates uneconomic against imports from more generous landed countries!

So one of the facts they got right was the date of the Titanic? Not very demanding

The British parliament didn't pass the bill.....I guess it really was 1913.

I'll bet Robert & Mr. Carson thinks their poo doesn't stink.

Highly derivative of Upstairs , Downstairs and spectacularly inferior in every way to the 1970's drama .

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Sorry but Downton Abbey got some details wrong about the Titanic. It was never advertised as "unsinkable" before the sinking; that myth grew up afterwards. Someone reading of the tragedy when it happened would not have had the reaction Lord Grantham has in the clip shown in this video.

Which women's rights are still being debated in the West today?

Diminishing power of Europe.... ha, sure

If I was a Brit I would be so pissed that the entail exists today.

My parents would like this a lot. Me? I'd rather watch Curious George, thank you. (If you don't get the reference, my parents watch Downtown Abbey on PBS whenever it's on and that I prefer PBS Kids over PBS.)

Eh I don't mind entail law not being destroyed. Trying to introduce equality to a system that purports inequality seems illogical. In fact, the downton entail is only one of many. Typically, the rules of succession for each title is determined upon its creation. In Scotland, many old titles can in fact be inherited in the female line but only when that mechanism was specified when the title was created. In many cases, the estates aren't actually entailed upon the heir to the title but by convention would go to them anyway. A good example is the Scottish title, Earl of Loudoun. the family ran out of male heirs at multiple points so the title passed through the female line and is currently held by an Australian man. Some people say that inheritance shouldn't exist at all, so i don't really care if uber rich daughters don't get the estates and titles anyway. It's not anyone's right to inherit, but if it must go to someone, then why not preserve tradition... that's the only argument in favour of the entire peerage system and landed estates anyway

Because the people at Watchmojo have ever picked up a history book? This show wouldn’t be smart if someone threw a book at the producer’s head.

loved the video, hated the sleepy joe commercial. please keep politics out of your channel!

I would work in Downton in an instant. You have a job, food and a place to live. What's not to like?

Downton Abbey got a telephone in 1914. Ridiculous. On Little House on the Prairie TV series, poor farmer Almanzo and Laura had a telephone in their house in 1885 Minnesota

I would be nice if you could actually get the name right in the title - Downtown, not Downton :-( Also...a lot of BBC period dramas are well researched (usually).

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Far too liberal, I thought as a factual channel you must stay unbiased. Of course socialists and liberals are often rather hypocritical