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   Franklin

   Series · 2024 · also drama

   In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to F...

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   The Book of Negroes

   Series · 2015 · also drama

   Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia and treacherous jungles of Sierr...

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   Death by Lightning

   Series · 2025 · also drama

   The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.

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   Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

   Series · 2020 · also drama

   An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire.

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   White House Plumbers

   Series · 2023 · also drama

   The true story of how Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect.

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   Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes

   Series · 2025 · also drama

   London is rocked by terrorist attacks as armed police shoot dead an innocent man on his way to work.

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   TURN: Washington's Spies

   Series · 2014 · also drama

   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...

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   Julia

   Series · 2022 · also drama

   Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social ins...

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   New Worlds

   Series · 2014 · also drama

   New Worlds is a four-part 2014 British television drama serial created by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, a follow-up to their 2008 series The Devil's Whore, produced b...

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    The Crowded Room

    Series · 2023 · also drama

    In 1979 Manhattan, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime — and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.

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