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Henry 'Little Onion' Shackleford, a newly freed teenager joins abolitionist John Brown on a holy crusade to end slavery. Onion encounters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and he finds himself as a part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
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TURN: Washington's Spies
Series · 2014 · also drama and war & politicsThe 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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Hell on Wheels
Series · 2011 · also drama and westernThe epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His...
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How the West Was Won
Series · 1977 · also drama and westernThe Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
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Deadwood
Series · 2004 · also drama and westernThe story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gol...
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Ransom Canyon
Series · 2025 · also drama and westernPassions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Series · 2024 · also drama and war & politicsThe powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp d...
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Shōgun
Series · 2024 · also drama and war & politicsIn 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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Warrior
Series · 2019 · also drama and westernA gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a mar...
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Deputy
Series · 2020 · also drama and westernWhen the Los Angeles County’s Sheriff dies, an arcane rule forged back in the Wild West thrusts the most unlikely man into the job: a fifth-generation lawman, more comfor...
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New Worlds
Series · 2014 · also drama and war & politicsNew 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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