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Plot Summary:
The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between native tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, exciting, harsh, historical drama, captivating, epic, dark, period piece, costume drama
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Jackpot (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dae-Gil and King Yeongjo enter a match. Dae-Gil bets his life and King Yeongjo bets the entire Kingdom of Joseon on the outcome. Dae-Gil is the best gambler in the Joseon era. He holds deep resentment inside, but is also cool on the exterior. King Yeongjo is a man who never lower his head without a convincing reason. Meanwhile, Dam-Seo exists solely to take revenge upon king.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Besieged (2015)
Plot Summary:
For three years, 500 Spaniards endured the attack of the indigenous natives in the south of Chile. Only 22 survived. This is the story of those brave men and women and their incredible journey to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, erotic, sensual
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Ming Dynasty in 1566 (2007)
Plot Summary:
A series based on the events in the reign of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Kangxi Dynasty (2001)
Plot Summary:
Kangxi Dynasty is a 2001 Chinese television series based on the novel Kangxi Da Di by Eryue He. The series is a prequel to the 1997 television series Yongzheng Dynasty, and was followed by Qianlong Dynasty in 2002.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, costume drama
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The American West (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the Executive Producer Robert Redford, THE AMERICAN WEST tells the story of the aftermath of the CIVIL WAR and how the United States transformed into the “land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Transporting into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws and law men, the story chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. The series features exclusive interviews with notable names from classic Western films, including Robert Redford, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Harmon, Ed Harris and more.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The Son (2017)
Plot Summary:
The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama, neo western, spaghetti western, period drama
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Mercy Street (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: historical drama, psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, gothic, dark, period piece, costume drama, medical drama
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Jamestown (2017)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, realistic, costume drama, disturbing, historical drama, period piece, captivating, melancholic, period drama
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Barkskins (2020)
Plot Summary:
A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: bleak, tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, visually appealing, costume drama, historical drama, factual, period drama
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Banished (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, historical drama, tense, realistic, captivating, costume drama, epic, period piece, period drama
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Thieves of the Wood (2018)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Belgium.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, realistic, historical drama
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Harlots (2017)
Plot Summary:
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, costume drama, captivating, period piece, thought provoking, historical drama, erotic, rough, dark
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Crossbones (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, historical drama, realistic, period drama
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Klondike (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel west during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they "must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters," including mill owner Belinda Mulrooney and aspiring writer Jack London.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 274 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, historical drama, atmospheric, stylized, exciting, period drama
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Billy the Kid (2022)
Plot Summary:
An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama, bilingual
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Aristocrats (1999)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: period piece, captivating, serious, historical drama, realistic, stylized, costume drama, romantic drama, historical romance, period drama
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Hell on Wheels (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hell on Wheels tells 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.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, historical drama, tense, realistic, stylized, dramatic
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Deadwood (2004)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, historical drama, clever, dramatic, period piece, rough, captivating
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The Last of the Mohicans (1971)
Plot Summary:
The classic story of Hawkeye.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 344 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama, masterpiece
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Into the West (2005)
Plot Summary:
Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as they struggle to find their place in a country confounded by turmoil and change.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min
Plot tags: epic, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, educational, historical drama, contemplative, period drama, wild
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Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dramatizes the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror. These men and women will blaze a path as they fight for survival in the ever changing and evolving world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: tense, heroic, historical drama, sad, costume drama, exciting, breathtaking, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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Dirilis: Ertugrul (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ertuğrul Bey and the Knights Templar in the 13th century Alba and step and step with the struggle against brutal Mongols depicts the process of establishing the Ottoman principality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, brutal, stylized, atmospheric, factual, islamic, historical drama, period drama
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Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016)
Plot Summary:
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, saga, costume drama
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TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: period piece, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, historical drama, tension, tense, political, costume drama
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Sons of Liberty (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of very different men fighting in the American Colonies for freedom, and how they will shape the future for the United States of America.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: captivating, historical drama, exciting, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, political, period drama
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Marco Polo (2014)
Plot Summary:
An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a trusted companion to the Khan in his violent quest to become the Emperor of the World.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, epic, atmospheric, serious, historical drama, costume drama, tense, erotic, sexy
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The Last Kingdom (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, epic, stylized, realistic, costume drama, historical drama, tense, brutal
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John Adams (2008)
Plot Summary:
The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, political, period piece, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, costume drama, epic, historical drama
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Black Sails (2014)
Plot Summary:
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, suspense, historical drama, costume drama, erotic, epic, realistic, serious, rough
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Vikings (2013)
Plot Summary:
Vikings follows 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.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 568000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, exciting, heroic, captivating, historical drama, breathtaking, epic, costume drama, mythical, period piece