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✔️ The Georgian & Regency Eras (1714–1837) films and TV shows
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The early Georgian period was more peaceful and stable than the Stuart era. The Georgians paid great attention to fashion, art, sport and music. The period was also known as the ‘Age of Reason’ or the ‘Enlightment’ based on reason and science. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to the upper middle class, the working class and the slave trade.

This collection is a selection of movies and TV dramas set 123 years before Queen Victoria ascended to the throne.


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Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf ( 2002 )
In 1764 something was stalking the mountains of central France. A 'beast' that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people.To this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, a wolf? a hyena? or something supernatural? The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now. Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorized France in the eighteenth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada).
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Movie: Liberté, égalité, choucroute ( 1985 )
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
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Movie: Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers ( 1984 )
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
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Movie: Lady Oscar ( 1979 )
The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.
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Movie: La Marseillaise ( 1938 )
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
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Movie: Marat/Sade ( 1967 )
In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.
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Movie: Dangerous Exile ( 1958 )
During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman.
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Movie: Royal Affairs in Versailles ( 1957 )
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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Movie: Reign of Terror ( 1949 )
Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.
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Movie: The Elusive Pimpernel ( 1919 )
A fop is forced to confess to spying to save his wife from the guillotine.
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Movie: Madame DuBarry ( 1919 )
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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Movie: Madame du Barry ( 1954 )
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France. Nor could she anticipate her quick fall and tragic death. The teenage girl was still a mere milliner's assistant when her beauty attracted the attention of Count Jean du Barry, a degenerate noble man who, after making her his mistress, undertook to make her Paris's most successful courtesan. Later, he realized that he could even help her to become one of aging King Louis XV's mistresses. But to qualify as a royal mistress, Jeanne had to be a married noble woman. No problem: Jean, who was already married, provided another husband, his brother Guillaume. This is how Jeanne, who had become Countess du Barry with sleight of hand, could enjoy triumph at Versailles. Unfortunately for her, her reign, which had excited the jealousy of the other courtesans, lasted only while the King was alive. Following his death, she was immediately exiled from Versailles and two decades later was executed on the guillotine.
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Movie: Madame Guillotine ( 1916 )
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Movie: The Frog Prince ( 1991 )
When a moody royal Prince's party of court brats pulls a few pranks too many in the woods, a mean fairy lays a cruel spell. She turns one into a frog, who can only become human again by a loving kiss. This alters several lives through relationships, some of dynastic relevance.
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Movie: Jánosik ( 1936 )
The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
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Movie: Janosik ( 1974 )
Polish version of the legendary highwayman and folk hero, Juraj Janosik.
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Movie: Janosik: A True Story ( 2009 )
The script by Eva Borusevicova describes the true story of Janosik, the XVIII centuries outlaw, who was prowling through Slovak-Polish border. The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on a real XVIII century documents and on a romantic legend, operating with a very subjective, original lyricism: the hero is tragic and at the same time very contemporary: he could be an American boy, burned by communing with cruelty of the war comes back from Iraq to the city ghetto and becomes a leader of a gang.
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TV Show: Empires ( 2000 )
Within the long history of civilization are great eras of struggle, triumph, and loss. These periods are reflective of the best and worst of humanity: explosive creativity, ultimate depravity, the use and abuse of power, and war.
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TV Show: Napoléon ( 2002 )
For the first time ever, Napoleon the man and legend is depicted on screen in all of his facets: as a man of human needs and desires, strengths and weaknesses; as a soldier, politician and visionary who raised himself above his fellow mortals and transformed himself into a myth. "Napoleon" sweeps away the pathos of previous portrayals and presents its subject in all of his complexity and contradictions. It provokes questions and challenges common assumptions. It paints a portrait of Napoleon that respects the facts and depicts him as a man whose life can still move and inspire all of us today. This 4 part mini-series won the 2003 EMMY AWARD for outstanding costumes, along with 6 further nominations.
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Movie: Napoleon's Curse ( 2009 )
When Paul and Monet host a weekend get together at the old Broussard mansion, what begins as a fun time quickly turns deadly when an ancient family curse is awakened.
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TV Show: Frontier ( 2016 )
Set against the stunning, raw backdrop of 1700s Canada, Frontier is revolving around warring factions vying for control of the fur trade in a ruthless game of wealth and power. Irish stowaway Michael Smyth has barely stepped foot into the New World when he becomes embroiled in a dangerous battle between the fearless and violent Declan Harp and the formidable Lord Benton of the Hudson's Bay Company. A dramatic story of revenge and riches, betrayal and brutality, and survival of the fittest in the James Bay fur trade, everyone is gunning to be the last man standing – from the combustible Scottish Brown Brothers, to crafty ale house owner Grace Emberly, to treacherous Captain Chesterfield, to millionaire Samuel Grant. All are willing to do whatever it takes to hold the keys to the New World.
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TV Show: Black Sails ( 2014 )
1715. The Golden Age of Piracy. New Providence Island is a lawless territory, controlled by history's most notorious pirate captains. The most feared is Captain Flint.As the British Navy returns to redeem their land and exterminate Flint and his crew, another side of him emerges. Captain Flint aligns himself with Eleanor Guthrie, daughter of the local kingpin, to hunt the ultimate prize and ensure their survival.Many opponents stand in their way: rival captains, jealous of Flint's power; Eleanor's ambitious and intrusive father; and a young sailor recently recruited onto Flint's crew, John Silver, who constantly undermines his captain's agenda.
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TV Show: City of Vice ( 2008 )
Vivid, gritty and stylish drama set in vice-ridden Georgian London. A stellar cast headed by Ian McDiarmid and Iain Glen brings to life the story behind the birth of the modern police force.
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TV Show: Captain Pugwash ( 1957 )
Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action (the first series was performed and broadcast live), also called Captain Pugwash, first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974–75, and a traditional animation series, The Adventures of Captain Pugwash, first aired in 1998The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the Black Pig, ably assisted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate. His mortal enemy is Cut-Throat Jake, captain of the Flying Dustman.
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TV Show: Elisa di Rivombrosa ( 2003 )
The dreamlike love, the one that challenges any obstacle, is the pivot on which the story of Elisa Scalzi rests. A girl born poor but with a great nobility, whose beauty warms Countess Fabrizio Ristori's heart. Elisa moves between the envy of slavery and the avarice of the noble family, as a modern heroine becomes the protagonist of a plot to damage the King.
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TV Show: La Figlia di Elisa - Ritorno a Rivombrosa ( 2007 )
Twenty years later June 1797. Twenty years have passed and many things have changed at Rivombrosa and in Europe. Napoleon's Army has swept into Italy and Piedmont, with its promise of freedom, equality and brotherhood. But, as often happens, military occupation also delivers poverty, insecurity and oppression. At Rivombrosa and the surrounding villages, a legend is born, a group of masked outlaws wages guerrilla warfare against the French, hurting the occupiers in manpower and treasure. Nobles and farmers alike whisper the name of the their leader in fear. Though summer casts its golden hues on Rivombrosa, the prevailing mood couldn't be darker. And into this chiaroscuro our story begins...
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TV Show: Гоголь ( 2019 )
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Movie: Gogol. Viy ( 2018 )
A Russian fantasy sequel to "Gogol: The Beginning (2017). Again, Nikolai Gogol, the leading character from the 2017 film, a young man who suffered unpredictable violent epileptic seizures, but during such seizures he would visualize something mysteriously happen in the dark world. This time, a serial killer has already murdered eleven women around a village, rumors spread by the villagers claiming the killer is a dark horseman. Gogol is ordered to investigate the murder cases, instead of going nowhere to solve it, he's beginning to suffer macabre visions more and more during his investigation, then he suddenly learns the next victim would be his girlfriend, Liza. But he doubts his ability won't stop what's gonna happen. Then he accidentally meet a witch hunter, Khoma Brut, with him they stay in an old church and asking the witch, Ulyana, to call up the evil spirit Viy to help fencing off the coming murder.
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Movie: Silent Night: A Song for the World ( 2020 )
This documentary tells the story of the creation and cultural impact of the world's most famous Christmas carol, composed in 1818 in Salzburg, Austria, and since then translated into about 140 languages. In fact, the song Silent Night caused a Christmas ceasefire in World War I. Over the last 100 years the song has been translated into 140 languages including Bing Crosby's version which is the third best-selling single of all time.
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Movie: Wild Faith ( 2018 )
The film and developing TV series portrays life in 1800's Michigan, focusing on a Civil War vet trying to make peace with his losses and start a new life despite the world resisting change around him.
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Movie: One Nation, One King ( 2018 )
The intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblée Nationale.
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TV Show: The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain ( 2014 )
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain will present the revealing and surprising story of Britain in the reigns of George I and George II (1714-60) – the age of the ‘German Georges'. In 1714, Britain imported a new German royal family from Hanover, headed by Georg Ludwig (aka George I) - an uncharismatic, middle-aged man with a limited grasp of English. Lucy Worsley will reveal how this unlikely new dynasty secured the throne – and how they kept it. An intimate and close-up portrait of these German kings of Britain, the series will follow George I, his son George II, and their feuding family as they slowly established themselves in their adopted kingdom - despite ongoing threats from invading Jacobites and a lukewarm initial response from the British public.
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Movie: Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey ( 2016 )
Also called "Mozart in London". Lucy Worsley travels to Salzburg and London tracing the life of Wolfgang A. Mozart and especially the year he and his family stayed in London. Wolfgang was born 8pm Jan 27th in 1756. The family were devout Catholics. His father was a music teacher and his mother Anna Maria gave birth to 7 children but 5 had died in infancy. Mozart's sister was an exceptional piano player also. It was on London soil that Wolfgang would compose his first symphony. His father had to learn marketing in London to advertise the concerts, and Wolfgang did play to King George. But things would take a strange turn before they headed home.
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Movie: Bonaparte: The Egyptian Campaign ( 2016 )
In the spring of 1798, Napoleon set out with 38,000 men and 10,000 sailors to conquer Egypt.
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TV Show: Crossbones ( 2014 )
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of Santa Campana, 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 is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.
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TV Show: Shaka Zulu ( 1986 )
This 10-part 10 hour docu-drama depicts the life of Zulu warrior Shaka, an early 19th century soldier and King who through brilliant but ruthless tactics, united the smaller neighboring kingdoms in his Southeast African region, into a single Zulu nation. Interweaving historic fact with cultural practices, rituals, and mythologies, Shaka is revealed to be one of the greatest modern military figures on the African continent
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Movie: Shaka Zulu: The Citadel ( 2001 )
Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior is the true story of the legendary African warrior and his struggle to unite his people against the largest empire in the world.
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Movie: Sharpe's Mission ( 1996 )
Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
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Movie: Sharpe's Siege ( 1996 )
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
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Movie: Sharpe's Challenge ( 2007 )
Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an empire and the life of a general's daughter lie in one man's hands.
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Movie: Sharpe's Company ( 1994 )
Spain 1812. After Ciudad Rodrigo, Teresa tells Sharpe that they have a baby daughter. In Badajoz, the next siege target. Meanwhile, a new commander has taken over the South Essex, along with the murderous Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill, an old enemy of Sharpe's from India days. But a new commander means a captain trying to turn the Rifles into red-jackets, and Sharpe's only hope to command his company again is the Forlorn one.
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Movie: Sharpe's Peril ( 2008 )
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
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Movie: Tobacco Burn (Short 2014) ( 2014 )
Decades before the Civil War, the actions of a brutal overseer spark the fire of revolution on a Southern tobacco farm.
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TV Show: Shadow and Bone ( 2021 )
Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.
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TV Show: The Underground Railroad ( 2021 )
The Underground Railroad is an adaptation of the acclaimed Colson Whitehead novel of the same title. It chronicles young Cora's journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.
 
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Movie: Mr. Malcolm's List (Short 2019) ( 2019 )
A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 1800s England, unaware of his unattainable list of conditions for a future wife.
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Movie: Von Steuben's Continentals: The First American Army ( 2007 )
It's all live-action, in full-color, shot and created digitally, detailing the creation and drill of the Revolutionary War American soldier from the defeats as a militia rabble in 1776 to success after Valley Forge in 1779-1781. It details all of the movements in Baron Von Steuben's "Blue Book" drill manual, as well as detailing the various uniforms, equipment, weapons, camps, marching, soldier life in camp, food and battles of the Continental Soldier. This is a first-of-its kind documentary, using actors and reenactors in authentic uniforms and settings to tell the story of the men of this army. This is the first in a planned 35 DVD "American Soldier Series" detailing the lives times and world of the American fighting men (and women) through history.
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Movie: Les Miserables ( 1952 )
A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.
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Movie: Manon Lescaut ( 2013 )
There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who's preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta. With a fine future as a teacher of rhetoric ahead of him, he meets a young commoner, Manon Lescaut, a candle maker's daughter. It's love at first sight.
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Movie: Le Versailles secret de Marie-Antoinette ( 2018 )
The Queen's Hamlet is a palace disguised as a peasant's cottage hidden in the Versailles gardens. A romantic hideaway, Marie-Antoinette conceived it as a reminder of her carefree youth in Vienna. The Revolution left it for a ruin. Now, two centuries later its renovation finally begins.
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Movie: Alexander Hamilton ( 1931 )
With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was over paying the soldiers who had fought in the War, Hamilton also dedicated his energies towards a national bank so that the United States would be able to trade with other countries. He fought eight long years for his Assumption Bill while considering the new Residence Bill. While he is engaged in running a clean treasury, his arch rival, Senator Roberts, takes every opportunity to slander and cast Alexander as a dishonorable man.
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Movie: Buckskin ( 2021 )
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost young boy.
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Movie: So Goes My Love ( 1946 )
Jane Budden, a country girl goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Hiram Maxim, a struggling inventor. After their marriage, his inventions become successful. Their happiness is complete when they have two children, and Maxim's portrait is given a place in the National Hall of Science.
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Movie: Yankee Buccaneer ( 1953 )
Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.
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Movie: A Royal Scandal ( 1945 )
In 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.
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Movie: Mohawk ( 2018 )
Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
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Movie: Peterloo ( 2018 )
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
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TV Show: Fena: Pirate Princess ( 2021 )
Fena: Pirate Princess tells the tale of a young orphan girl, Fena Houtman. Fena has been raised on an Island where there is no hope of becoming anything more than chattel, to be used and discarded by soldiers of the British Empire. But Fena is more than just another powerless orphan. When her mysterious past comes knocking, Fena will break the chains of her oppressors. Her goal: forge a new identity, free of bondage, and search for a place where she can truly belong and find out the true mysteries behind a keyword "Eden." It is the story of a lifetime adventure she and her crew of misfits and unlikely allies will have, in pursuit of her goals!
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Movie: Interlude in Prague ( 2017 )
The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.
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TV Show: La cocinera de Castamar ( 2021 )
Spain, 1720. Clara Belmonte is a young woman from a well-off family who, after the death of her father, one of the most prestigious doctors of Madrid, will see herself sunk into absolute poverty. Fallen from grace despite her exquisite education, thanks to her prodigious cooking she manages to get a job at the duchy of Castamar, disrupting, with her arrival, the apathetic world of don Diego, the duke. However, the agoraphobia she is suffering since the death of her father will not be the only obstacle that Clara will face when she arrives to the property of the duke. He, since he lost his wife in an accident, lives isolated in his great mansion, surrounded by the servants. And although at the beginning Clara is not well received by the staff of the house, she will soon stand out thanks to her exquisite education and her cooking abilities, which will even surprise the duke himself.
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Movie: Cliffs of Freedom ( 2019 )
In 1821, during the first year of the Greek War for Independence and the rebellion against the Ottoman Empire, the twenty-year-old Greek woman, Anna-Christina, falls for the conflicted Turkish officer, Colonel Tariq, who is having second thoughts about his compatriots' brutal approach to governing. However, Tariq and Anna's fledgeling romance is bound to bring suffering not only to her family but also her community. As a result, bent on retaliating, Christina summons up the courage to take part in the Revolution, and, unintentionally, she becomes a local symbol of the ever-growing Greek resistance movement, inspiring her fellow brothers and sisters-in-arms to take action. But, sooner or later, Christina will have to face her long-buried feelings for the man who still cares for her; a pivotal moment that will lead to tragic results.
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Movie: Measuring the World ( 2012 )
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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Movie: Burke and Hare ( 2011 )
A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
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TV Show: The Awakening Land ( 1978 )
Frontierswoman Sayward Luckett's struggles in Ohio during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century. A new look at how the West was won.  Adapted from the trilogy of novels by Conrad Richter, "The Awakening Land" spans 27 years of frontier settlement. It begins in 1790, when the dirt-poor Lucketts leave Pennsylvania in search of game in the Ohio Territory. The head of the clan, Worth Luckett (Tony Mockus), is a good provider but also a wanderer, so it's not long before his oldest daughter Sayward (Elizabeth Montgomery) is looking after her three sisters.
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Movie: Jamaica Inn ( 1985 )
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
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Movie: The Last Mistress ( 2008 )
At 30, boyish penniless aristocrat Ryno de Marigny has separated from Villini, a passionate Spaniard and his mistress of 10 years. He's now in love with Hermangarde, a young, wealthy, and titled virgin. Days before the wedding, the bride's grandmother sits Ryno down and insists on knowing if his affair is over. He relates a story of passion, which we see in flashbacks, swearing he loves only Hermangarde. After the wedding, the couple moves to a castle by the sea. And Villini? Can passion survive disgust and self-loathing?
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Movie: Prince Among Slaves ( 2008 )
In 1788 the slave ship Africa, set sail from West Africa and headed for America with its berth laden with a profitable but highly perishable cargo-hundreds of men, women and children bound ...
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Movie: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ( 2011 )
A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.
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Movie: The Work and the Glory ( 2005 )
Recently moved to upstate New York from the comfort of their Vermont homestead, the Benjamin Steed family makes their way into the established social structure of Palmyra. In their attempt to settle peacefully into the new community, they discover that the help they have hired to clear their land is at the center of a religious controversy - a controversy that threatens to tear the family apart. As two of the Steed brothers contend for the favor of a wealthy merchant's daughter, they find themselves on opposite sides of the religious question. Although the family struggles to smooth the contention, they soon face deeper issues of family loyalty and the pursuit of truth.
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Movie: The Work and the Glory II: American Zion ( 2005 )
In November of 1833, the state of Missouri turned a blind eye as hundreds of its peaceful inhabitants were hunted down and driven from their homes in the dead of night. Against this impending strife, a young man with a divine vision leads a people against the aggression of an anti-hero with a vulnerable past. With more than two million copies sold, the second volume o...Read all
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Movie: The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided ( 2006 )
Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's...Read all
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TV Show: Our Flag Means Death ( 2022 )
Our Flag Means Death is loosely based on the true adventures of Stede Bonnet, a pampered aristocrat who abandoned his life of privilege to become a pirate.
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TV Show: The Confessions of Frannie Langton ( 2022 )
Set against the opulence of Georgian London, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, narrates Frannie's journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham.In a misguided and monstrous gesture Frannie is gifted to Benham by the man who owns her, John Langton, and she is employed as a maid in the household much to her chagrin. Events take a fateful turn as the Benhams are found murdered in their beds, with Frannie lying next to Marguerite. Frannie is accused of murder; a murder she has no recollection of, other than she couldn't possibly have killed her mistress because she was devoted to her. Dragged away to prison, Frannie attempts to piece together the events of that night.  She is deep into a laudanum addiction and unable to recall what happened.Will Frannie recall the haunting events of that night?  All she knows is she loved Marguerite passionately and cannot believe she would have hurt her. But if not Frannie, who did commit the double murder? Others have motive, but only Frannie is accused and she will hang if found guilty. What hope does she have of clearing her name?
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TV Show: The Gallows Pole - This Valley Will Rise ( 2023 )
The Gallows Pole - This Valley Will Rise fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18th century Yorkshire, the compelling drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley, as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
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Movie: Mr. Malcolm's List ( 2022 )
A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th century England.
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Movie: Persuasion ( 2022 )
Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?
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Movie: Marie-Antoinette ( 2006 )
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TV Show: Marie Antoinette ( 2022 )
The show will tell the story of the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
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TV Show: Dangerous Liaisons ( 2022 )
Dangerous Liaisons follows the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals and ex-lovers who use seduction to control and exploit others. It explores the world of the French aristocracy shortly before the French revolution. The series will tell the origin story of the early years of both characters when they meet as passionate young lovers in the slums of 18th century Paris.
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Movie: Jeanne du Barry ( 2023 )
The life of Jeanne Bécu who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
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Movie: The Highwayman ( 2022 )
Famed highway robber Dick Turpin finds himself on the run in the English countryside having accidentally kidnapped the Earl of Pembroke's feisty daughter, Elizabeth. As her fiance Winthroppe attempts to track them down, Elizabeth begins to fall for the dashing highwayman, leaving Turpin with no choice but to face off against Winthroppe in a fight for Elizabeth's heart...Read all
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Movie: Prey ( 2022 )
Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
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Movie: The Pale Blue Eye ( 2023 )
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
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TV Show: Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story ( 2023 )
Betrothed to the mysterious King of England against her will, Charlotte arrives in London only to realise she was not exactly what the royals were expecting. As she learns to navigate the palace, the 'ton, and her unpredictable husband, she grows into one of Europe's most unforgettable monarchs.
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Movie: Kos ( 2024 )
Movie begins in the spring of 1794. General Tadeusz 'Kos' Kosciuszko (Jacek Braciak) returns to Poland, who plans to start an uprising against the Russians, mobilizing the Polish nobility and peasants to do so. He is accompanied by a faithful friend and former slave, Domingo (Jason Mitchell). a ruthless Russian captain, Dunin (Robert Wieckiewicz), who wants to capture...Read all
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Movie: The Promised Land ( 2023 )
The story of Ludvig Kahlen who pursued his lifelong dream: To make the heath bring him wealth and honor.
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Movie: Chevalier ( 2023 )
Based on factual story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African enslaved and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.
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TV Show: Цербер ( 2023 )
1826, St. Petersburg. After the suppression of speeches on the Senate Square, the investigative commission begins searching for participants in the Decembrist uprising. Some of them are caught by the authorities because of informers. Suddenly, a series of brutal murders takes place in St. Petersburg: the victims are those who denounced the Decembrists. A piece of paper with lines from a poem by the young poet Alexander Pushkin invariably remains near the bodies of the murdered. A Moscow detective and a nobleman Alexander Boshnyak, released from arrest, are taking over the investigation of the case.
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Movie: Zondebokken ( 2023 )
On the eve of the French Revolution, two town officials confront the Buckriders - a criminal gang who appear to ride on flying goats with the Devil - but along the way they will face deceit, corruption, betrayal and finally each other.
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Movie: Imperatritsy ( 2023 )
After the death of Peter the Great, the era of palace coups begins - a time of intrigue and a struggle for power. Little Elizabeth already knows that the world is not a wish-granting factory. She is not destined to become the queen of France, because after the death of Peter I, Louis XV breaks all past agreements. And for the throne of the Russian Empire there is a re...Read all
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TV Show: I Leoni di Sicilia ( 2023 )
Brothers Paolo and Ignazio Florio leave Calabria for Palermo, where they open an apothecary. Paolo's son, Vincenzo, driven by ambition, transforms it into a business empire. As he works to establish the Florio family's name, his love for Giulia causes him to sacrifice his aspirations of nobility.
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TV Show: The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin ( 2024 )
In this irreverent retelling set in the 18th century, Turpin is the most famous but least likely of highway robbers, whose success is defined mostly by his charm, showmanship and great hair. Together with his gang of lovable rogues, Turpin rides the highs and lows of his new endeavors, including a brush with celebrity, all whilst trying to escape the clutches of the thief-taker.
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TV Show: Dick Turpin ( 1979 )
Dick Turpin is a British television drama series starring Richard O'Sullivan and Michael Deeks. It was created by Richard Carpenter, Paul Knight and Sydney Cole and written by Richard Carpenter, John Kane, Charles Crichton and Paul Wheeler, it was made by Gatetarn, Seacastle productions in-association with London Weekend Television between 1979 and 1982. 26 half hour episodes and one feature-length episode were filmed on location at Maidenhead in Berkshire, England.The series is loosely based on the adventures of the real 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin.
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TV Show: Franklin ( 2024 )
On a secret mission to France, Benjamin Franklin plays a sophisticated game of intrigue and seduction—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.
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Movie: Onegin ( 2024 )
Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other entertainment that the capital can offer a young man. But social life has long tired him, so he perceives the news of the illness of his uncle living in the village as an opportunity to escape from the disgusting world. However, having reached the estate, Onegin learns about the death ...Read all
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Movie: The Devil's Bath ( 2024 )
Austria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising.
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Movie: Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu ( 2024 )
In 1714, the wealthiest man in Europe, Wallachian Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, confront with Sultan Ahmed III. His journey become an initiation one, that concludes in an unexpected manner, shaping the spiritual identity of a nation.