In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
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.
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.
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.
Sèrie de TV de 112 episodis (1965-1969). Califòrnia, 1870. Victoria Barkley administra el Ranxo Barkley, a la vall de Sant Joaquim, prop de Stockton, que sempre està en perill per l'abundància de lladres, quadrins, colles i acaparadors de terres.
Una epopeia familiar de gàngsters ambientada el 1919 a Birmingham, Anglaterra, i centrada en una banda que cosia fulles d'afaitar a les viseres de les seves gorres, i el seu ferotge cap Tommy Shelby, que vol escalar posicions.
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.
Al Berlín de la República de Weimar, un escenari socialment molt agitat entre la Primera i la Segona Guerra Mundial. Gereon Rath, un inspector de la policia de Colònia, es trasllada a Berlín per investigar una trama de pornografia cinematogràfica.
Amb l'ajuda d'una noia que fa de prostituta, Charlotte Ritter, haurà de resoldre altres casos, com ara l'assassinat d'una actriu de cinema o els baixos fons de la boxa. Paral·lelament, també hi apareixen els conflictes que hi ha entre trotskistes i estalinistes.
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.
És l'any 872 i molts dels regnes independents del que ara es coneix com a Anglaterra han sucumbit a la invasió dels danesos. El gran regne de Wessex s'ha quedat sol, sota el comandament del rei Alfred el Gran.
Amb aquest turbulent teló de fons viu Uhtred. Fill d'un noble saxó, és capturat pels danesos i criat com un d'ells. Obligat a triar entre els seus orígens i les persones que l'han educat, la seva lleialtat es veurà posada a prova. Què és realment? Saxó o danès?
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
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”.
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
The fight of Abdulhamid II to keep Ottoman Empire and caliphate alive.
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.
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
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.
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.
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.