Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, history, sport |
Country | United Kingdom |
Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | Italy, USA, United Kingdom, France, Spain |
A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 00:59 |
France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law again on his trail. Ruthless Inspector Javert pursues him thorough years, driven by a twisted sense of justice, while Valjean reforms himself, thrives and dedicates his life to good deeds. In 1832, while the revolution ravages the streets of Paris, Valjean and Javert cross their paths for the last time.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his sick daughter, Mrouj safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter Sawsan is missing Khafaji is forced into a desperate search to find her.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:00 |
The remarkable story of the chance meeting that transformed penniless, ostracised archaeologist Howard Carter into a household name following his discovery of the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Italy |
The extraordinary rise of Livia Drusilla, who overcame adversity to become the most powerful woman in the world. Follow Livia’s journey from a naïve young girl whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination, to Rome’s most powerful and influential Empress.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 00:54 |
The drama series depicts the life of Tokuzo Akiyama, head chef of the Imperial Household Ministry’s Imperial Cuisine Division during the Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa (1926-1989) eras. Based on a true story and book by Hisahide Sugimori, 'The Emperor’s Cook' follows the life of country boy, Akiyama, who arrives in Tokyo in pursuit of the culinary arts. Driven by a deep love for his wife and family, a great reverence for his teachers, strong reliance on friends and an abiding love for cooking, Akiyama eventually rises to become 'the Emperor’s cook'.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 03:00 |
Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.
Mark | imdb: 9.4 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:56 |
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:06 |
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective, military, history |
Country | Russia |
Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
New Worlds is a gripping 4 part mini series dealing with love, loss and the human price paid for the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today. We follow the fortunes of four young people - Beth, Hope, Abe and Ned - from across both sides of the Atlantic, caught up in these turbulent times. We see them struggle as they are torn between love and ideals in the harsh reality of the changing world. In England, the restored monarchy of Charles II has betrayed its promises and reverted to tyranny. Behind the decadence of the Court, a terror machine is repressing the freedoms won for the people with so much blood during the Civil War of England when Charles I was executed. In America, the tentacles of state terror reach the English colonists of New England who are struggling to throw off the shackles of the English Crown. At the same time the colonists are ruthlessly staking their claim to the territories occupied by the Native American Indians, and shedding much of the American Indian's blood in the process - in a chilling echo of the tyrannical behaviour that they sought to escape from when they crossed the Atlantic
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:35 |
Sherlock has a peculiar character flaw. She does not open her heart to strangers. She is Japanese, but was born in Britain. She now works as an investigation consultant for the police department. Wato Tachibana is an excellent surgeon and is guided by the principal of justice. Sherlock and Wato Tachibana get to know each other through a case and begin to rely on each other.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:05 |
A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, history |
Country | Italy, United Kingdom |
The story of Romulus and his twin brother Remus, in eighth century B.C. as seen through the eyes of three people marked by death, loneliness and violence.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany |
Duration | 00:54 |
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
Mark | imdb: 8.9 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
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
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:43 |
At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of Amsterdam's red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
'Unforgotten' follows modern police team DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan, who gradually unravel long-forgotten secrets which have a dramatic impact on their investigation and the four potential suspects. The slow revelation of the secrets will also affect the personal lives of both Sunny and Cassie.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | action, drama, crime, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:58 |
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.