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Reign(2013-2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 42min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 385 votes)

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

The Mysterious Cities of Gold(1982-2021)

3.8/5 (with 31 votes)

The adventures of a young Spanish boy named Esteban who joins a voyage to the New World in search of the lost Cities of Gold and his father.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII(1970)

1h 30min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 6 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Jodha & Akbar(2013-2015)

24min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Jodha Akbar is an epic drama about a sixteenth century story of the political marriage of convenience between a Mughal emperor Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar and a Rajput princess Jodha Bai. The show focuses on how their political marriage brings love between them to an extent that it changed the fate of India. This period drama also portrays the wars of that time along with the relations between the Mughals and the Rajputs. The drama also focuses on the functioning of the queens, the courts, courtesans, the ministers and their influence on the love story of Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar and Jodha Bai. The show also highlights on how Mughal emperor Jalal ud-din Muhammad acquires the title of Akbar from the people.

Directed by Santram Varma - With Rajat Tokas, Paridhi Sharma, Kunal Khosla

Magnificent Century(2011-2014)

1h 30min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 384 votes)

At the age of 26, when his reign began, Sultan Süleyman sought to build an empire more powerful than Alexander the Great and to render the Ottomans invincible. Throughout his 46-year reign, his fame as the greatest warrior and ruler of his age spreads both to the East and West. With his companion Pargalı İbrahim, Süleyman achieves great victories, and makes his name known in the Muslim World. Süleyman called İbrahim his brother, friend and advisor. The television series shows Süleyman's consolidation of his power: Pargalı İbrahim being grand minister of state, reinforcing the rule of law throughout the empire, meeting foreign diplomats, and preparing for military campaigns, all set against the backdrop of the tension between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Sir Francis Drake(1961-1962)

30min per episode | Action & Adventure
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.

Directed by Clive Donner - With Terence Morgan

Wolf Hall(2015)

1h per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 46 votes)

Following the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of Cromwell as he becomes Henry the VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

The Tudors(2007-2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 55min per episode | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 320 votes)

The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

Kingdom(2019-2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 51min per episode | Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 463 votes)

In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty which has been defeated by corruption and famine, a mysterious rumor of the king’s death spreads, as does a strange plague that renders the infected immune to death and hungry for flesh. The crown prince, fallen victim to a conspiracy, sets out on a journey to unveil the evil scheme and save his people.

The Spanish Princess(2019-2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 55min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 214 votes)

The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

Upstart Crow(2016-2018)

30min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Directed by Matt Lipsey - With David Mitchell

The Queen and the Conqueror(2020)

50min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Years after Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia betrayed her people and broke her heart, indigenous woman Catalina reenters his life to get revenge.

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Black-Adder II(1986)

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

In the Tudor court of Elizabeth I, Lord Edmund Blackadder strives to win Her Majesty's favour while attempting to avoid a grisly fate should he offend her.

Carlos, rey emperador(2015-2016)

1h 15min per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.

Directed by Oriol Ferrer Ferrer, Salvador García Ruiz, Jorge Torregrossa, Joan Noguera - With Álvaro Cervantes, Blanca Suárez, Marina Salas Rodríguez, Eric Balbàs, Laia Costa, Mònica López, ...

Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan(2021)

45min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics
3.6/5 (with 137 votes)

Dynamic reenactments and expert commentaries bring to life the tumultuous history and power struggles of a warring 16th-century feudal Japan.

Barkskins(2020)

50min per episode | Drama
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx.

The Plague(2018-2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 50min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 101 votes)

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.

Boundless(2022)

45min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 48 votes)

TheFirst Circumvallation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated byFerdinand Magellanand culminated byJuan Sebastián Elcano.

Hernán(2019)

48min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 82 votes)

The Spanish "Conquistador" Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is México and faces both local demons and those who've sailed with him.

With Óscar Jaenada, Michel Brown, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Víctor Clavijo, Ishbel Bautista, Mabel Cadena, ...

Elizabeth I(2017)

45min per episode | Documentary, Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Elizabeth I may be remembered as the greatest monarch to rule England, but during her lifetime she was beset by enemies and hers was a life of constant battling.

Rouge Brésil(2013)

1h 30min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Conquistadores: Adventum(2017)

55min per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Narrates faithfully the first 30 years of America's discovery and conquer, from Colon's departure from Spain in 1492 until Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first travel around the world in 1522.

Princ a chuďas(1971)

1h 9min per episode | Drama

A prince meets a young man to whom he bears a striking resemblance. The two exchange places and learn to be better people in the process.

Hürrem Sultan(2003)

1h per episode | Drama
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Richelieu(1977)

52min per episode
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Six part mini series about the life of Cardinal Richelieu.

Armada: 12 Days to Save England(2015)

1h per episode | Documentary, History

Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.

Mambo(2017-2018)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Julio Mambo (David Sainz) was an international famous song star child. When his voice changed, his famous banished.

Królowa Bona(1980)

55min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Janusz Majewski - With Aleksandra Śląska, Zdzisław Kozień, Jerzy Zelnik, Anna Dymna, Barbara Bursztynowicz, Zdzisław Wardejn, ...

The Third Reich: The Rise & Fall(2010)

1h 26min per episode | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

An intimate, authentic portrait of Hitler's Germany as recorded by the people who lived it. Never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and personal recollections culled from German's diaries, journals and letters provide a rare look inside the darker pages of world history.

Elizabeth(2000)

3h 20min per episode | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Elizabeth is a four-part British documentary about Queen Elizabeth I of England.

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