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Plot Summary:
Experts dive deep into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, and use cutting-edge archaeological technology to reveal the hidden truths that could potentially answer questions that have befuddled Egyptologists for generations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating
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The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Documentary, Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: philosophical, thought provoking, mind bending, clever, captivating, realistic, talky, serious, inspirational, novela
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Ancient Gods of Egypt (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Gods of Egypt" was a huge box office success but the true Gods were more ancient and mysterious than fiction. Powerful and deadly, all knowing, and all seeing, they were the original Masters of the Universe. They originated many thousands of years ago in a land far away from Egypt. From the Gods of the underworld, Osiris and Anubis; to the Gods of light such as Amun-Ra and Horus; the lives and actions of the Gods of Ancient Egypt explain our very existence and our place in the universe. Prepare to experience the Real Gods of Egypt and the original Game of Thrones.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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America Unearthed (2012)
Plot Summary:
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter explores mysteries, artifacts and relics to reveal a history of the North American continent not taught in school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating
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The Chang'an Youth (2020)
Plot Summary:
On her way to get married, a series of events lead Shen Yi Yi to enter a school in disguise as a boy. This is a story that follows the exploits of the five sons of Shangyiguan. Shen Yi Yi is an ordinary cook from the market. In order to repay a debt, she agrees to substitute for her good friend in marriage and travels to Chang'An in her stead. Along the way, she ends up in disguise as a gentleman and meets Yang Zi'an, a young man carrying out orders from the King. She also meets the sweet second prince Li Xin Yuan, the high and mighty swordsman Dugu Muxue and the handsome flower boy Tang Jiu Hua. In their pursuit of education, the five who bear secrets of their own learn to trust each other and become friends, thus starting them on an exciting school life that brings them face to face with a mysterious case and corrupt officials.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti (2016)
Plot Summary:
Josh Gates sets off on a quest to find the Yeti, a legendary man-ape living in the high altitude of the Himalayas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, entertaining
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Expedition Bigfoot (2019)
Plot Summary:
An elite team of Sasquatch specialists journey into the unforgiving Oregon wilderness in search of Bigfoot. The three-week expedition, based on science and expertise, may finally pull the elusive beast out of the pages of legend and lore and into reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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500 Nations (1995)
Plot Summary:
500 Nations is a documentary which explores the history of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America, from pre-Colombian times, through the period of European contact and colonization, to the end of the 19th century and the subjugation of the Plains Indians of North America. 500 Nations relies on historical texts, eyewitnesses accounts, pictorial sources and computer graphic reconstructions to explore the magnificent civilizations which flourished prior to contact with Western civilization, and to tell the dramatic and tragic story of the Native American nations' desperate attempts to retain their way of life against overwhelming odds.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: informative, profound, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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Life of a Mistress (2018)
Plot Summary:
Polina Lebedeva, daughter of the childless prince Alexei Petrovich Golovin, is the most enviable bride of the Yamburg district. During the ball in honor of her birthday, Alexei Petrovich dies of a heart attack. This grief is only the beginning of hard trials, destined for the girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating
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Million Dollar American Princesses (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth McGovern (Downtown Abbey) takes an in-depth look at the young American heiresses whose real life stories inspired the acclaimed TV drama "Downton Abbey." This series takes you from the late 1800s, when daughters of America's new industrial millionaires marry into the money-strapped British aristocracy, to the 20th century, when a new kind of American Princess wields power not through wealth, but through character, style, and wit. Through the decades, these women bring dramatic change to the European aristocracy and eventually the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: History
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, witty, factual
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Seven Deadly Sins (2008)
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The series traces the history of the seven deadly sins, how they became part of religious doctrine, and looks at historical figures who have been the worst perpetrators of each. Each of the seven sins is explored, from their origins and nature, their opposing virtue, and their corresponding punishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, serious, realistic
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Saimdang, Memoir of Colors (2017)
Plot Summary:
A reinterpretation of Saimdang from the Joseon times. She was a genius artist and passionate lover. Lee Young-ae takes on two roles; a college professor who specializes in Korea Art History and Saimdang.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, captivating, disturbing
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Toussaint Louverture (2012)
Plot Summary:
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: History
Country: France
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, historical drama
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Secrets in the Ice (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious frozen lakes filled with bones, mummified bodies hanging from inside a glacier, and a 30,000-year-old virus frozen in ice brought back to life in a laboratory. In an all new Science Channel series, SECRETS IN THE ICE, experts and scientists are exposing dark secrets, forgotten treasures and lost relics from some of the coldest places on Earth. Using state of the art archaeological technologies and cutting-edge CGI animation, SECRETS IN THE ICE spotlights the mysteries that have been locked away in icy tombs all over the world for centuries. At the base of a massive glacier in Southern Greenland, Danish archeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient stone hut. Was this site the home to a Viking seer practicing black magic? In Siberia, archeologists have excavated a mummy with fantastical tattoos against the many warnings of locals. Have they uncovered buried treasure, or unleashed an ancient curse?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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Filinta (2014)
Plot Summary:
"Carbine" The first Ottoman crime show of television history, -Filinta- is a show that presents notions of rights, justice, camaraderie, fellowship and love. Mustafa is a very smart, skillful, handsome young man. He serves as a policeman with his best friend Ali, who is also an orphan like Mustafa. Kadı Gıyaseddin is a -kadı- (judge) who belongs to a well-established family, and was trained in Damascus, Bukhara, Cairo and Konya from an early age. He is of an easy-going and coolheaded temperament. He shows us his refined wisdom in every scene. He also has trained sultans sons at the palace. He is a former mentor of the Sultan. Our story begins with a conspiracy against Mustafa and Ali.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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How We Got Here (2015)
Plot Summary:
A series examining entrepreneurship and technological advances in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, clever
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Song of Phoenix (2017)
Plot Summary:
There are some relationships that are doomed from the start. During the Warring States period, Qu Yuan is born into a prominent family and grows up to be a prodigy scholar. But Qu Yuan bucks convention when he falls in love with Mo Chou Nu, a slave. Society forbids such class-breaking relationships, so the lovers decide to elope so that they can be together. Despite their efforts to lead a quiet life, Qu Yuan and Chou Nu become entangled in the political struggles of the power elites within the palace. Can their relationship survive the many obstacles?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives (2016)
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Henry VIII is the most infamous monarch in English history. Famously he married six times over his 36 year reign. The six queens were formidable individuals. Some were ambitious, some brave, some ruthless - and between them they shaped the man who began as a Renaissance prince, became a monster and ended a regretful old man. In turn they shaped England itself. Presented jointly Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones, this is 4-Part series is an original and enlightening look at the real people at the centre of the action during one of the most turbulent, passionate and violent periods in English history.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, realistic, historical drama
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Tutankhamun (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Howard Carter’s epic quest to discover the lost tomb of the Boy-King Tutankhamun. Down on his heels archaeologist Howard Carter stumbles upon evidence of an undiscovered tomb of one of Egypt’s forgotten Pharaohs, Tutankhamun. Only one man, Lord Carnarvon, believes Carter and puts up the money he needs. Together, this unlikely pair can overcome all odds. It seems as if nothing can come between them – until Carter falls in love with Carnarvon’s daughter, Evelyn….
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, factual, exciting, atmospheric, historical drama, period drama, interesting
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Bonekickers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University. It made its début on 8 July 2008 and ran for one series. It was written by Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah. It was produced by Michele Buck and Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen Ltd and co-produced with Monastic Productions. Archaeologist and Bristol University academic Mark Horton acted as the series' archaeological consultant. Adrian Lester has described the programme as "CSI meets Indiana Jones [...] There's an element of the crime procedural show, there's science, conspiracy theories – and there's a big underlying mystery that goes through the whole six-episode series." Much of the series was filmed in the City of Bath, Somerset, with locations including the University of Bath campus. Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House, Chavenage House for episodes 5 & 6 and Sheldon Manor. On 21 November 2008 Broadcast magazine revealed the show would not be returning for a second series.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Sophia (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 15th Century Russia, the last Byzantium Princess, Sophia Palaiologina, moves from Rome to distant Moscow to marry Czar Ivan III. Destined to become the first influential female figure of the Russian Empire, Sophia overcomes court intrigue and betrayals, and helps Ivan consolidate the fragmented country, push Mongolian invaders out, and build the Kremlin, the most magnificent symbol of Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, epic
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Lenin: Revolution Chronicles (2017)
Plot Summary:
The events unfold in 1915-1917. Marxist theoretician and publicist Alexander Parvus, who fled to Germany from a Russian exile, during the First World War has been successfully negotiating with German Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow. As a result of negotiations, the German government allocates money to Parvus personally for organizing a revolution in the belligerent Russian empire. On the funds received Parvus finances and remotely stimulates protest actions of the popular masses in St. Petersburg, which leads to the abdication of the power of Emperor Nicholas II and the overthrow of the monarchy in the Russian Empire. Then Parvus organizes the return to Russia of the emigration of the leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, with a group of his associates. Parvus' actions are being resisted by the head of the Russian imperial counterintelligence, Prince Vasily Turkestanov, and counterintelligence officer Alexei Mezentsev.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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MosGaz. Delo N2: Palach (2015)
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Events take place on the outskirts of Moscow in 1965. In the center - the story of the exposure of a woman executioner who, during the war, at the behest of the Germans, shot prisoners, partisans, and civilians. This is actually a separate civil war of the fanatic with their people. During the war, she was barely 20 years old, and on her account there were already fifteen hundred murders. She shot her victims with a machine gun, hiding behind a toy bunny mask. Then she drank a bottle of moonshine and then appeared the next morning without a mask and lived an ordinary life, the same as everyone else ... Therefore, after the war, it was very difficult to figure out the killer. This case was assigned to the chief investigator. His suspicions fall on one or the other woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
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The White Slave (2016)
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"The White Slave" because Blood is the Same Color, is a production which narrates the story of Victoria, a woman who everyone knows as a marchioness who arrived in America to marry a prosperous merchant from the region. However, the truth is different, because years back in that same city, she was rescued from death and raised in secret by some slaves who became her family. She was taken from the arms of her loved ones and sent to Spain because according to the society of the time, a white woman could not live with slaves and was sent to a nunnery.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: History
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, touching, historical drama, telenovela
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Queens (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rivalry that existed between two great European monarchs: Mary Stuart of Scotland and Elizabeth I of England. They fought for supremacy in the political, religious and personal realms, under the attentive eyes of the most feared monarch in Europe, Philip II.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: historical drama, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Presidents at War (2019)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. This is the story of how their war experiences change them, how they emerge from conflict as leaders and how the crucible of war shapes the decisions they make when they reach the White House.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: History
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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Man, Moment, Machine (2005)
Plot Summary:
Man, Moment, Machine was a television series which aired on The History Channel and was hosted by Hunter Ellis. It documented an important event in history and went into detail about, as the title suggests, the man and his background, the machine and how it was made, and the outcome.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Biography, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining
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37 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of what happened in the few weeks immediately preceding World War I.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: political thriller, realistic, serious, captivating, period piece, period drama
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Tut (2015)
Plot Summary:
Explores the drama of power, political back-stabbing, war and murder and chronicles King Tut's rise to glory, his efforts to rule a chaotic empire and the enigma surrounding his death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, historical drama, tense, thought provoking, erotic, sexy, political
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1971)
Plot Summary:
La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI and distributed in the United States by CBS, which aired it from August 13, 1972 to September 10, 1972. Castellani wrote the screenplay. It was filmed entirely on location in Italy and France. The total runtime of the five episodes is nearly five hours.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Biography, History
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: educational, inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, enigmatic, mind bending
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Genius (2017)
Plot Summary:
Anthology series about famous geniuses with the first season charting how Albert Einstein unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe, and the second exploring the passionate nature and relentless creative drive of Pablo Picasso.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: anthology, historical drama, inspirational, enigmatic, captivating, psychological, educational, saga, costume drama, intellectual