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An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Hornblower
Series · 1998 · also drama and action & adventureSet during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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The Musketeers
Series · 2014 · also drama and action & adventureSet in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the tr...
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The Winds of War
Series · 1983 · also drama and war & politicsAgainst the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, lea...
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Foyle's War
Series · 2002 · also drama and war & politicsAs WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern Engla...
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The State Within
Series · 2006 · also drama and war & politicsThe State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 Novembe...
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Police Story
Series · 1973 · also drama and action & adventureDetective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operati...
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The Crimson Field
Series · 2014 · also drama and war & politicsIn a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenche...
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12 O'Clock High
Series · 1964 · also drama and war & politicsThis series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible...
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The Mists of Avalon
Series · 2001 · also drama and action & adventureThe Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli E...
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The Odyssey
Series · 1997 · also drama and action & adventureWarrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey,...
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