Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All 18 episodes from the first two series of the BBC drama starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark After spending three years fighting in the American War of Independence Poldark must rebuild his life in the small Cornish copper mining town he calls home However when he finds his father dead his estate in ruins & his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth (Heida Reed) engaged to his cousin the life he once knew seems to no longer exist With the help of his new maid Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) Ross attempts to navigate the hostile poverty-stricken locals & the region&s wealthy & influential businessmen to reopen his family&s disused copper mine Wheal Leisure