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Plot Summary:
Explore different periods of human history through a variety of sketches.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
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The Roman Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
Why when people in leading positions get into conflict, there only "ordinary people" get hurt? Two personal bodyguards of governor of a small Roman province asks themselves just that. In movie we will witness the funny stories, which are talking about how history is not changing and that the lifestyle in ancient times was no different than ours. Even if there are barbarian threats, people in leading positions will try not to do anything to protect their people.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 87 min
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Cunk on Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Philomena Cunk is on a festive mission to track down the true meaning of Christmas, and find out exactly what it wants. It's an insightful documentary which takes her on a journey from pagan winter festivals and the nativity story, via 'Sir Charles Dickings', all the way up to today's obsession with Santa. Along the way Philomena will be grilling a variety of experts, trying to expose the truth about Christmas, such as why people still put up with 'brussels sprouts'.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, spoof, parody
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The Jews Are Coming (2014)
Plot Summary:
Satire sketches, examining the history of the Jewish people since biblical times.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Israel
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: witty, clever, humorous, controversial, dark comedy, offbeat, not serious, biting, suspense
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Cunk on Britain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Landmark mockumentary-maker Philomena Cunk traces the history of Britain and Earth.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, cult classic, parody
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Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik (2019)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Anthony Jeselnik interviews fellow comedians about their careers, influences and other topical issues.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Nick Kroll: Little Big Boy (2022)
Plot Summary:
Nick Kroll shares his comedian origin story, his first heartbreak, his strange hypnosis experience and the trash-talking celebrity voice in his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: fun
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Bitter Coffee (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series begins with history teacher Nima Zande-Karimi (Siamak Ansari) realizing that his extensive research on Persian and world history is of little use to financing his day-to-day life. He is about to leave Tehran for good to go back to his hometown by the name of Darab, when he comes across young university student Roya Atabaki (Sahar Jafari-Jozani) who is researching for her final year dissertation, which is regarding the period 1198–1203, that is said to be a period of turmoil for Iran's ruling elite. Such turmoil that, very few books are available on that period for Roya's research. It is then that Nima receives an anonymous telephone call, which leads him to Niavaran Palace (currently a museum), where he is told to have a coffee and wait. The coffee (which is bitter) is ready and he duly drinks it, his sight becomes hazy, and when he manages to refocus he is in the year 1201 (1822 AD), and the story develops therein.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Iran
Duration:
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The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer is an American sitcom that aired on UPN in 1998. Before it was even debuted, the series set off a storm of controversy because of a perceived light-hearted take on the issue of American slavery.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Let Them Eat Cake (1999)
Plot Summary:
Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999. Starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, it is one of the few programmes in which French and Saunders have appeared which they did not create themselves.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, weird, period drama, alternative comedy
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Special Collector's Edition (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Special Collector's Edition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: christmas special, slapstick comedy, slapstick, silent, silent film
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Mrs. Davis (2023)
Plot Summary:
Sister Simone partners with her ex-boyfriend on a globe-spanning journey to destroy Mrs. Davis, a powerful artificial intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags:
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The Legendary Life of Queen Lau (2022)
Plot Summary:
Everyone thought that fate played an unbelievable joke - the foul-mouthed woman from the village who can beat a brawny man with her bare hands has become queen! She will be the one to help her "weak chicken" husband in a story full of laughter and warmth. Liu Jin Feng was abandoned by her own father. Growing up in a small alley, she and her mother only had each other to depend on. The entire court laughed when she married into the imperial family. Even her husband, the King , was suspicious of her and repeatedly tried to test her loyalties. Duke Qi has been manipulating government affairs, the young king has always had lofty ideals for the future of his kingdom. Jin Feng's chubby appearance is unlike the fair and slender maidens in the inner court. With her around, life in the palace has become less boring and more chaotic. As the newly weds get to know each other, the most "mismatched" king and queen become the most perfect couple.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: China
Duration:
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Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Plot Summary:
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty, political, surreal, surprise ending, spoof, realistic
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History Bites (1998)
Plot Summary:
History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen and mock news, sports and entertainment programming was created around it. Each episode included several segments of Green offering historical background of the episode's chosen era and otherwise showed frequent shifts from one comedy sketch to another representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time. Reruns of History Bites are currently being shown on History Television and The Comedy Network.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, sketch comedy, fake documentary
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Upstart Crow (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, entertaining, period piece, satirical
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The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013)
Plot Summary:
Comic Relief takes over the Great British Bake Off tent. Different celebrity faces battle it out with their baking skills to claim one of the coveted Comic Relief Star Baker titles.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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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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Drunk History (2013)
Plot Summary:
Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, realistic, parody, absurd, funny, mumblecore, sketch comedy, educational, mockumentary
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Ashi Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hayakawa Yui is a young girl whose biggest quality is to be a fast runner. She accidentally travels through time up to the Sengoku Era and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 38 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Plebs (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, absurd, funny, sitcom, hilarious, realistic
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Kroll Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kroll Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by and starring comedian Nick Kroll. Kroll, John Levenstein, and Jonathan Krisel serve as the show's executive producers. The series premiered on January 16, 2013, on the American cable television network Comedy Central.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, parody, feel good, light, captivating, skit, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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History of the World: Part I (1981)
Plot Summary:
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, humorous, cult classic, witty, sketch comedy, slapstick comedy, experimental
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MacGruber (2021)
Plot Summary:
After rotting in prison for over a decade, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the entire world in the crosshairs, MacGruber must reassemble his old team in order to defeat the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Victorian comedy adventure in the style of Charles Dickens following shop owner Jedrington Secret-Past. Jedrington teams up with a seemingly charming new business partner, Harmswell Grimstone. As the Secret-Past family's fortunes rise, it looks like they are built on crumbling foundations indeed, especially when it is revealed that Conceptiva too has a secret that turns out to be even darker than Jedrington's own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, not serious, hilarious, offbeat, period drama, campy
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Up the Women (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need to set up their own movement and The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle becomes the hilariously ineffectual Banbury Intricate Craft Circle politely request women's Suffrage. Gwen is the only member who actually enjoys the craft element of the meetings, while Helen thinks that craft is a little unnecessary, but she's not interested in women's rights: "What on earth do women need a vote for? My husband votes for who I tell him to vote for. What could be a better system than that?".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, semi serious, historical drama, realistic, period piece
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Another Period (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set at the turn of the century, “Another Period” follows the misadventures of the Bellacourts, Newport, RI’s first family, who have absolutely nothing to offer to the world, but who have so much money it doesn’t matter. The series focuses on sisters “Lillian” and “Beatrice”, who care only about how they look, what parties they attend and becoming famous, which is a lot harder in 1902.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical, spoof, mockumentary, hilarious, sitcom
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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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The Mindy Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, sincere, feel good, absurd, realistic, light, medical drama, hilarious
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The Fifth of Hell (2002)
Plot Summary:
O Quinto dos Infernos was a 2002 mini Brazilian historical comedy television series. It was written by Carlos Lombardi, and directed by Wolf Maya and 48 episodes were produced. The protagonist was Marcos Pasquim.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: erotic, parody, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Norsemen (2016)
Plot Summary:
Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry, social change and innovations that upend their culture and way of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, stylized, atmospheric, captivating, epic, historical drama, fun