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Vikings(2013-2020)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics, Documentary
4.0/5 (with 3,275 votes)

The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

Directed by Johan Renck, Ciaran Donnelly, Ken Girotti, Jeff Woolnough, Kari Skogland, Kelly Makin, ... - With Travis Fimmel, Katheryn Winnick, Clive Standen, Jessalyn Gilsig, George Blagden, Gabriel Byrne, ...

The Big Valley(1965-1969)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Western, Drama
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

With Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Lee Majors, Linda Evans, Peter Breck

Masters of Sex(2013-2016)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 167 votes)

William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Johnny Carson's couch. He is a brilliant scientist out of touch with his own feelings, and she is a single working mother ahead of her time. The series chronicles their unusual lives, romance, and unlikely pop culture trajectory.

With Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, Caitlin FitzGerald, Teddy Sears, Nicholas D'Agosto, Beau Bridges, ...

Genius(2017-)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Drama
3.9/5 (with 120 votes)

The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.

Directed by Kenneth Biller, Kevin Hooks, Greg Yaitanes, Ron Howard - With Antonio Banderas, Johnny Flynn, Geoffrey Rush, Seth Gabel, Clémence Poésy, T. R. Knight, ...

Peaky Blinders(2013-2022)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 4,625 votes)

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

Directed by David Caffrey - With Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Iddo Goldberg, Annabelle Wallis, ...
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The Last Kingdom(2015-2022)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
4.1/5 (with 787 votes)

A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

Directed by Nick Murphy, Jamie Donoughue, Peter Hoar, Erik Leijonborg, Andy De Emmony, Jan Matthys, ... - With Alexander Dreymon, David Dawson, Tobias Santelmann, Emily Cox, Rune Temte, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, ...
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Rome(2005-2007)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
4.1/5 (with 575 votes)

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Directed by Michael Apted, Tim Van Patten - With Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Max Pirkis, Ciarán Hinds, James Purefoy, ...

Hell on Wheels(2011-2016)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Western
3.8/5 (with 194 votes)

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Directed by David Von Ancken - With Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Dominique McElligott, Tom Noonan, Eddie Spears, Ben Esler, ...

Old Bridge Secret(2011-2019)

NR
| 55min per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

With Megan Montaner, Loreto Mauleón, Adriana Torrebejano, Raúl Peña, Almudena Cid, Álvaro Morte, ...

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena(2011)

TV-MA
| 51min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 16 votes)

In the time before the arrival of Spartacus, the House of Batiatus faces many challenges from competitors, and within its own household.

With John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Nick E. Tarabay, Dustin Clare, Jaime Murray, ...

Nos Tempos do Imperador(2021-2022)

1h per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1856, the emperor Dom Pedro II lived a marriage of appearances with Teresa Cristina, with whom he was forced to marry at a young age by his parents' political alliance, having two daughters with her: Isabel and Leopoldina. He truly loves Countess Luisa, a cultured and time-ahead woman who fights for the abolitionist cause and women's rights, married to Eugenio, the emperor's cousin. At the same time there are sisters Pilar and Dolores: the first went to a convent after her mother's death in childhood, growing up among books and dreaming of studying medicine - inspired by the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first doctor in the world -, while the second stayed at home to take care of her father, Colonel Eudoro, growing up repressed, illiterate and without vanity.

With Selton Mello

The Queen's Gambit(2020)

TV-MA
| Drama
4.3/5 (with 2,019 votes)

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Directed by Scott Frank - With Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Christiane Seidel, Rebecca Root, Chloe Pirrie, ...
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Medici: Masters of Florence(2016-2019)

TV-14
| 55min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 133 votes)

The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.

Directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan - With Richard Madden, Dustin Hoffman, Stuart Martin, Annabel Scholey, Guido Caprino, Alessandro Sperduti, ...
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Queen of Jhansi(2009-2021)

NR
| 24min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

With Kratika Sengar, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Amit Pachori, Ulka Gupta, Eva Grover, Hemant Choudhary, ...

Deadwood(2004-2006)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Western, Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 364 votes)

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

Directed by Ed Bianchi, Davis Guggenheim - With Timothy Olyphant, Jim Beaver, Peter Jason, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Alice Maud Krige, ...
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1883(2021-2022)

TV-MA
| Drama, Western
4.2/5 (with 237 votes)

Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.

With Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, LaMonica Garrett, Eric Nelsen, Noah Le Gros, ...

The Tudors(2007-2010)

TV-MA
| 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.

With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill, Callum Blue, Henry Czerny, Natalie Dormer, Maria Doyle Kennedy, ...

Reign(2013-2017)

TV-14
| 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.

With Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby Regbo, Caitlin Stasey, Anna Popplewell, ...

Roots(1977)

NR
| 1h 30min per episode | Drama, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.

Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman - With LeVar Burton, Leslie Uggams, Louis Gossett Jr., Olivia Cole, Vic Morrow, Lynne Moody, ...

The Borgias(2011-2013)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 206 votes)

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.

With Jeremy Irons, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Joanne Whalley, Lotte Verbeek, ...

Rio Del Mar(1999-2001)

30min per episode | Drama

Rio del Mar is a Philippine TV drama series produced by TAPE Inc. and broadcast on the GMA Network. Directed by Mel Chionglo, Jeffrey Jeturian and Gina Alajar, this series is about family, friendship, deception and betrayal. The series was the comeback of 1980s actress, Vivian Velez.

With Vivian Velez

1923(2022-)

TV-MA
| Drama, Western
4.1/5 (with 132 votes)

Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

Directed by Ben Richardson - With Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Sebastian Roché, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, Marley Shelton, ...

Frontier(2016-2018)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 131 votes)

The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.

Directed by Brad Peyton - With Jason Momoa, Alun Armstrong, Allan Hawco, Landon Liboiron, Greg Bryk, Shawn Doyle, ...
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Sharpe(1993-2008)

1h 30min per episode | War & Politics, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.

Victoria(2016-2019)

NR
| 45min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 119 votes)

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

With Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, Peter Bowles, Catherine Flemming, Daniela Holtz, Nell Hudson, ...

Norsemen(2016-2020)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 72 votes)

Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry, social change and innovations that upend their culture and way of life.

Directed by Jonas Torgersen, Jon Iver Helgaker - With Kåre Conradi, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Silje Torp Færavaag, Henrik Mestad, Kristine Riis, ...
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Isabel(2012-2014)

1h 10min per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 26 votes)

Charting the life of Isabella I of Castile, one of the most important women in Spain’s history, Isabel follows her passionate story from childhood to being crowned Queen. From her political struggles within King Henry IV's court to her wedding to Ferdinand of Aragon, the drama encapsulates the passions, emotions and sacrifices of a woman who refused to just be a figurehead and whose outlook was ahead of her time.

Directed by Jordi Frades - With Michelle Jenner, Rodolfo Sancho, Pablo Derqui, Bárbara Lennie, Ginés García Millán, Pedro Casablanc, ...

Payitaht Abdulhamid(2017-2021)

2h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
4.3/5 (with 10 votes)

The fight of Abdulhamid II to keep Ottoman Empire and caliphate alive.

With Bülent İnal

The George Carlin Show(1994-1995)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The George Carlin Show is an American sitcom that aired on the Fox network from January 1994 to July 1995. It was created jointly by veteran TV producer Sam Simon and the show's namesake, comedian George Carlin.

Directed by Jeff Melman, Rob Schiller

Donkey Kong Country(1998-2000)

TV-Y7
| 30min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Taking place on Kongo Bongo Island, the show focuses on Donkey Kong, the island's resident hero. Before the series' events, he was chosen as the island's future ruler by a magical artifact known as the Crystal Coconut, which is connected to a spirit known as Inka Dinka Doo. In the present, Donkey Kong must prove he deserves the role through his heroics and by simply guarding the coconut. Alongside various allies such as his best friend and sidekick Diddy Kong and his mentor Cranky Kong, he must protect the Crystal Coconut from various threats, most notably the villainous King K. Rool and his Kremling army who long to steal it in order to rule Kongo Bongo. Oftentimes, Donkey Kong has to juggle his guardian duties with his social life, his relationship with Candy Kong, and his love of gorging on bananas.

Directed by Mike Fallows
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