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La Petite Histoire de France(2015-)

3min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
4.3/5 (with 4 votes)

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Directed by David Salles, Jonathan Barré, Marie-Hélène Copti - With Alexandra Roth, Maxime Gasteuil, Paul Scarfoglio, Faustine Koziel, Anne Benoît, Alban Ivanov, ...

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.

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.

Old Bridge Secret(2011-2019)

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

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Vikings: Valhalla(2022-)

TV-MA
| 51min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 362 votes)

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

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.

Wagon Train(1957-1965)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Western, Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

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.

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.

The Apothecary Diaries(2023-)

23min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!

Oshin(1983)

15min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family, War & Politics
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.

Conta-me Como Foi(2007-)

50min per episode | Kids & Family, Drama
4.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

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Blade of the Immortal(2019-2020)

3.6/5 (with 50 votes)

Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by the nun Yobikuni as punishment for his ruthless deeds, he has grown weary of his ageless life. The only way to lift the curse is to slay 1,000 evil men. So Manji wanders Japan, shedding the blood of the wicked on his quest to finally die.

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.

Charité(2017-)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Drama, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 55 votes)

Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.

Charité(2017-)

45min per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 41 votes)

Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.

Emma: A Victorian Romance(2005-2007)

TV-Y7
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

In 19th-century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which people are born dictates the path their lives will follow. Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, never felt her place in life to be a burden. But then she met William, a member of the gentry and the eldest son of a wealthy family. His warm smile and earnest affection threaten to capture her heart... but can love truly conquer all?

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon(2020-2022)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 65 votes)

In feudal Japan, half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi’s brother, Sota, and his family. Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras has reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a demon slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa’s shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her older sister

Hell's Paradise(2023-)

4.0/5 (with 73 votes)

Gabimaru reigns as the strongest and most ruthless assassin in his village. But now finds himself on death row—with only one way out: retrieve the Elixir of Life from a sinister island. Longing for freedom, he accepts the challenge. But with fellow convicts vying for the same prize and demonic beasts lurking, how will Gabimaru survive this harrowing quest?

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.

Rurouni Kenshin(2023-)

TV-14
| 23min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to create a time of peace, and a thriving country free from oppression. The new age of Meiji has come, but peace has not yet been achieved. Swords are banned but people are still murdered in the streets. Orphans of war veterans are left with nowhere to go, while the government seems content to just line their pockets with money.

Boardwalk Empire(2010-2014)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 478 votes)

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

Golden Kamuy(2018-)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Western
3.8/5 (with 30 votes)

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.

Directed by Hitoshi Nanba

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.

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, ...

InuYasha(2000-2010)

4.3/5 (with 952 votes)

Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.

Dororo(2019)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 523 votes)

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.

Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi

The Case Study of Vanitas(2021-2022)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Mystery, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 94 votes)

In 19th-century Paris, young vampire Noé finds the Book of Vanitas in human hands. Calling himself Vanitas, this doctor wields its power and tempts Noé with a plan to “cure” all vampires. Allying with him may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?

Directed by Tomoyuki Itamura

Donkey Kong Country(1998-2000)

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

The King's Affection(2021)

TV-14
| 1h 10min per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 123 votes)

When the crown prince is killed, his twin sister assumes the throne while trying to keep her identity and affection for her first love a royal secret.

Directed by Song Hyeon-Wook, Lee Hyun-suk - With Park Eun-bin, Ro-woon, Nam Yoon-su, Choi Byung-chan, Bae Yoon-kyung, Jung Chae-yeon, ...
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