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.
Ragnara Lotbroka, sava laikmeta lielākā varoņa, piedzīvojumi. Sērija stāsta par Ragnara brāļu vikingu grupas un viņa ģimenes sāgām, kad viņš kļūst par vikingu cilšu karali. Papildus tam, ka Ragnars ir bezbailīgs karotājs, viņš iemieso skandināvu tradīcijas, kas veltītas dieviem. Leģenda vēsta, ka viņš bija tiešs kara dieva un karotāju Odina pēcnācējs.
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.
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
Seriāls vēsta par gangsteru ģimeni 1919. gadā Birmingemā, tās mežonīgajos un trūcīgākajos rajonos. Karavīri atgriežas mājās pēc kara, revolucionāri sāk izvērst savas darbības, bet noziedznieku bandas cīnās par izdzīvošanu. Ieroči, kas atvesti no tranšejām, tiek likti lietā ielās. Komunisti plāno revolūciju, un valdība to gaida. Kamēr Čērčils mobilizē īpašās vienības spēkus, nelegālie bukmeikeri pelna naudas kalnus derībās un traumēti bijušie karavīri nodzeras krogos. Šelbiji ir ģimene, kura valda pār pilsētu. Tā ir liela ģimene, kura veido briesmīgāko no bandām – “Peaky Blinders”. Viņi pelna naudu ar nelikumīgām derībām, laupīšanām un “jumta” nodrošināšanu uzņēmumiem. Viņu boss Tomijs ir visnežēlīgākais no visiem brāļiem, bet viņš tiks pakļauts lielam pārbaudījumam. No Belfāstas tiek nosūtīts jauns policijas priekšnieks, lai iztīrītu pilsētu no noziedzības.
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.
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
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.
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
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”.
Marija, Skotijas karaliene, ir spiesta cīnīties gan par politisko varu, gan mīlas intrigām, kuras valda Francijas tiesu nodevīgajā pasaulē.
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.