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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.

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.

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.

Babylon Berlin(2017-)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 140 votes)

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gareon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Tenko(1981-1984)

NR
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

14 de abril, la República(2011-2019)

NR
| 1h 15min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

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Upstairs Downstairs(2010-2012)

1h per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.‬

The Indian Doctor(2010-2013)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

The Indian Doctor is a British television drama set in the summer of 1963. Produced by Rondo Media and Avatar Productions, it was first broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The most recent series began on 27 February 2012 and concluded on 2 March. It is a period comedy drama starring Sanjeev Bhaskar as an Indian doctor who finds work in a South Wales mining village.

Saga of Tanya the Evil(2017-)

4.2/5 (with 167 votes)

On the front lines of the war, Tanya Degurechaff, blond hair, blue eyes, and porcelain white skin, commands her squad with lisping voice. Actually, she is one of Japan's most elite salary men, reborn as a little girl into a world of magical warfare after angering a mysterious being who calls himself God.

Directed by Yutaka Uemura

A Young Doctor's Notebook(2012-2013)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 72 votes)

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.

The Kennedys(2011)

NR
| 45min per episode | Drama, Documentary
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

The Kennedys is an Emmy-winning Canadian-American television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedy family, including key triumphs and tragedies it has experienced. It stars Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, Barry Pepper and Tom Wilkinson among others, and is directed by Jon Cassar. The series premiered in the United States in April 2011 on ReelzChannel and on History Television in Canada.

Pan Am(2011-2012)

TV-PG
| 43min per episode | Drama
3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots are rock stars and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. They're trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances—all without rumpling their pristine uniforms or mussing their hair.

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Shadow Lines(2019-2021)

45min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.

The Sinking of the Laconia(2011)

1h 30min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

The Collection(2016)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.

The Promise(2011)

1h 29min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.

Directed by Peter Kosminsky - With Claire Foy

Ridley Road(2021)

57min per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.

With Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan, Agnes O'Casey, Tom Varey, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Danny Sykes, ...

The King of Warsaw(2020)

1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.

Directed by Jan P. Matuszyński - With Michał Żurawski, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Magdalena Boczarska, Borys Szyc, Adam Bobik, Andrzej Seweryn, ...

South Riding(2011)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire in 1934 after twenty years teaching in London and the Empire. After a fiery interview with a conservative interview panel, outspoken Sarah takes up her first headmistress-ship at Kiplington High School for Girls, determined to demonstrate to her new pupils that the future is theirs for the taking.

Directed by Diarmuid Lawrence

Inside the Mafia(2005)

TV-PG
| Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Infiltrate the legendary secrecy of one of the world's most powerful criminal organisations to expose the stark realities deep Inside the Mafia. With remarkable access to FBI and DEA agents and former mobsters, get intimate detail on the cutthroat deals, gangland assassinations and secret rituals within the infamous global mob.

The Hour(2011-2012)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama, Talk-Show
3.7/5 (with 35 votes)

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.

Labyrinth of Peace(2020)

48min per episode | Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland. This small neutral country, which has been all but spared by the war, becomes a hub for Nazi war criminals, Allied Secret Services and Holocaust survivors.

Clash of Futures(2018)

53min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.

Ekattor(2020-)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A love story amidst agitation and crime... Find out about the fight to survive, during the Bangladeshi freedom struggle.