Season 1 · Episode 1
Michael Smyth lands in the New World on an HBC ship and is ordered by Lord Benton to venture into the frontier in search of fur trader Declan Harp, the man responsible for the murder of Benton’s soldiers at a remote outpost.
While Douglas and Malcolm Brown negotiate a loan with wealthy Samuel Grant, their brother Cedric Brown kidnaps a Lake Walker boy as trade leverage, setting off a deadly chain of events in the Bay. Michael chooses a side. Emberly takes a big risk that puts her in Benton's crosshairs. Harp makes a promise to the Lake Walkers.
After an unprovoked attack on their camp, Machk leads the Lake Walkers to retaliate against the Brown Brothers. Harp sets out to find the truth while tensions increase.
An unexpected arrival to Fort James puts Lord Benton and Chesterfield on edge. Emberly conspires to rid herself of a problem. Michael is shocked when he sees someone from his past in the Bay.
Captain Johnson closes in on Benton and the fort is reinforced with soldiers as Harp and Benton come face to face; Emberly makes a move to control Chesterfield.
Fort James explodes into chaos when Michael and Sokanon conspire to free Harp from Benton's grip.
A Shanghai socialite’s world collapses when her family falls to ruin, pushing her into the perilous world of espionage. Entangled with two men on opposite sides of war—a Communist spy and a fallen Kuomintang agent—she must navigate betrayal, danger, and divided loyalties as she transforms from a privileged bystander into a fervent revolutionary.
2018
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
2007
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
2015
It tells the story of the first generation of leaders of the Communist Party of China represented by Mao Ze Dong. When the country is in crisis, the first congress of the Communist Party of China was held to establish the Communist Party of China and lead the Communist Party to explore the great course of maturity. The story takes Mao Ze Dong’s “one major representative” as the perspective, starts from the main contradictions in Chinese society after 1919, and takes the party’s development context as the foundation. The arduous struggle opened up an unprecedented revolutionary road and finally won a great victory.
2021
A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.
Set in ancient Israel, The Dovekeepers is based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The events are recounted from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique backstories, but a common bond for survival. Additionally, these women, who work together daily as dovekeepers, are all concealing substantial secrets. This four-hour limited event series is based on Alice Hoffman's bestselling, critically acclaimed historical novel.
Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.
1999
The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is Mexico and faces both local demons and those who have sailed with him.
2019
The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.
1975
Xue Fangfei, the daughter of a well-off county magistrate lost everything after a major upheaval. Saved by Jiang Li, the daughter of the Secretariat Director, she took on the identity of Jiang Li and returned to the capital. With the help of Duke Xiao Heng and others, she overcame numerous hardships, tirelessly fought against injustice, rescued her father who had been wrongly imprisoned, assisted Xiao Heng in upholding justice, protecting the common people, and ultimately regained a beautiful life.
2024
Xie Tianxing, a chivalrous thief from a fallen noble family, unexpectedly finds himself thrust into a new life when he takes on a mission that leads to him assuming the identity of a wealthy merchant. As he navigates his sudden transformation, he discovers that beneath his newfound fortune, danger and deception lurk at every turn.
2025
A legendary story about a young man who overcomes many hardships to become a formidable force in the Shanghai Bund. Xiong Tian grew up in the streets. With nothing to his name, he works a thankless job just to make a living. Nonetheless, he is quick-witted, talented and exceptionally gifted in steam-powered machinery. By chance, he gets pulled into a complicated fight and works his way to become a champion.
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
2009
Xie Xiaoman, an ordinary yet determined woman, is forced into a contract marriage with Zhao Xiaoqian, a prince known for his laziness, and as palace intrigue and shared trials unfold, the two grow beyond their reputations to discover love, courage, and their true destinies together.
Banished is a British period drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on BBC Two from 5 March to 16 April 2015. It received mixed reviews, with most of the criticism for its perceived inaccuracies to the depicted events. Though set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
Lincoln (aka Sandburg's Lincoln) is an American six-part miniseries broadcast on NBC from September 6, 1974 to April 14, 1976.
1974