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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...
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Black Sails
Series · 2014 · also dramaThe 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 pir...
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Boardwalk Empire
Series · 2010 · also dramaAtlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "N...
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Jamestown
Series · 2017 · also dramaThe 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 ne...
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Harlots
Series · 2017 · also dramaBrothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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Frontier
Series · 2016 · also dramaIn 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson's Bay Company.
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The Day of the Jackal
Series · 2024 · also dramaAn unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a...
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Roots
Series · 2016 · also dramaAn adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.
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The Good Lord Bird
Series · 2020 · also dramaHenry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet T...
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Peaky Blinders
Series · 2013 · also dramaA gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who mea...
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Boat Story
Series · 2023 · also dramaTwo hard-up strangers stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they become entangled with police, masked hitm...
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