Shows like Roots

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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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   Washington Black

   Series · 2025 · also drama and action & adventure

   11-year-old George Washington "Wash" Black embarks on a globe-trotting journey of identity after fleeing a Barbados sugar plantation aboard a flying machine in the compan...

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   Shōgun

   Series · 2024 · also drama

   In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite again...

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   Black Sails

   Series · 2014 · also drama and action & adventure

   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 pir...

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   Kindred

   Series · 2022 · also drama

   A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.

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   New Worlds

   Series · 2014 · also drama and action & adventure

   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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   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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   Obsession

   Series · 2023 · also drama

   A respected London surgeon's affair with his son's fiancée turns into an erotic infatuation that threatens to change their lives forever.

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   The Madness

   Series · 2024 · also drama and action & adventure

   After a media pundit stumbles upon a dead body deep in the Poconos woods, he finds himself framed for the murder of a notorious white supremacist.

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    Banshee: Origins

    Series · 2013 · also drama and action & adventure

    Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the ti...

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