Category: History

Great Expectations

7

Follows orphan Pip, who spent his childhood as a blacksmith’s apprentice and suddenly receives a windfall from an unknown benefactor that allows him to travel to London and enter high society.

History of the World: Part II

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History of the World, Part II is an American sketch comedy limited series. It features sketches parodying events from different periods of human history and legend.

Vikings: Valhalla

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Follow-up series to ‘Vikings’ set 100 years afterward and centering on the adventures of Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror.

1899

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Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.

The First Lady

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In the East Wing of the White House, many of history’s most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America’s charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.

Gaslit

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A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.

Vikings

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Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore – and raid – the distant shores across the ocean.

The Last Kingdom

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The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories. The books follow Uhtred of Bebbanburg from a boy taken from his birthright and raised by Vikings, later fighting for King Alfred the Great and his son Edward. Shield walls, blood, revenge and the forging of many Kingdoms into one nation, a dream of Alfred’s called...

Domina

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The life and rise of Livia Drusilla, the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.

Leonardo

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The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection.

Genius

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Pablo Picasso confronts the threat of fascism in Spain, and Young Pablo rejects traditional painting to search for his own voice.

It’s a Sin

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A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.