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  • Band of Brothers (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2001
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    TV Miniseries (2001). 10 Episodes. This is the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting to the end of ...
  • Chernobyl (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2019
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    TV miniseries (2019). 5 Episodes. In April 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the USSR becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.
  • The Best of Youth (TV Miniseries)
    Italy - 2003
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    "La Meglio Gioventù" tells the story of an Italian family from the late sixties to the present day. It focuses on two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. They share the same ...
  • The Corner (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2000
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    TV Miniseries (2000). 6 Episodes. HBO miniseries about a poor family from Baltimore who has to deal with conflicts related to drugs. The screenwriters, David Simon and ...
  • Brideshead Revisited (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 1981
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    TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ...
  • Show Me a Hero (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2015
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    TV Miniseries (2015). 6 Episodes. This six-part miniseries explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ...
  • Generation War (TV Miniseries)
    Germany - 2013
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    TV Miniseries (2013). 3 Episodes. It tells the story of five German friends, aged around 20, on their different paths through Nazi Germany and World War II. Level-headed, ...
  • Pride and Prejudice (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 1995
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    An adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, set in the 19th century, about the prejudice and the class differences which would keep lovers apart.
  • Olive Kitteridge (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2014
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    TV Miniseries (2014). 4 Episodes. The story focuses on middle-school math teacher Olive Kitteridge (Frances McDormand) and her relationships with her husband Henry which ...
  • John Adams (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2008
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    7 Episodes. Based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, 'John Adams' taps into the uncertainty and intensity surrounding the birth of the American ...
  • Generation Kill (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2008
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    TV Mini-Series (2008). 7 Episodes. From the creator of 'The Wire' comes 'Generation Kill', based on the award-winning book by Evan Wright. This seven-part miniseries is ...
  • North & South (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2004
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    TV Miniseries (2004). 4 Episodes. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe), a ...
  • The Pacific (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2010
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    A 10-part mini-series from the creators of "Band of Brothers" set in the midst of World War II, following three US Marines in the Pacific, during America's battle with ...
  • Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2011
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    TV Miniseries (2011). 6 Episodes. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a Starz television mini-series and prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, scheduled to premiere January ...
  • Mildred Pierce (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2011
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    TV Miniseries (2011). 5 Episodes. Divorced single mom Mildred Pierce decides to open a restaurant business, which tears at the already-strained relationship with her her ...
  • Holocaust (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 1978
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    "Holocaust" follows each member of the Jewish Family Weiss throughout Hitler's reign in Germany. One by one, the family members suffer the horrible fate of extermination ...
  • The Pillars of the Earth (TV Miniseries)
    Canada - 2010
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    TV Miniseries (2010). 8 Episodes. The Pillars of the Earth is a sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty. This sensuous, spirited and ...
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Miniseries)
    France - 1998
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    A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the ...
  • Dekalog: The Ten Commandments (TV Miniseries)
    Poland - 1989
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    TV Mini-Series (1989-1990). 10 Episodes. Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose ...
  • Angels in America (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2003
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    6 episodes. It follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear its ugly head. ...
  • Dead Set (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2008
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    During a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
  • Jesus of Nazareth (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 1977
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    Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The ...
  • FLCL (TV Miniseries)
    Japan - 2000
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    TV series (2000-2001). 6 episodes. A 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, ...
  • The Sinner (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2017
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    A crime thriller about young mother Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel) who, when overcome by an inexplicable fit of rage, commits a startling act of violence and to her horror ...
  • Black Mirror: The National Anthem (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2011
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    A twisted parable for the Twitter age, Black Mirror taps into the collective unease about our modern world. The first episode is a political thriller in which fictional ...
  • Black Mirror: The Entire History of You (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2011
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    Set in an alternative reality where everyone has access to a system which records everything they do, see or hear. You need never forget a face, a holiday or a night out ...
  • Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2011
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    A satire on entertainment shows and our insatiable thirst for distraction set in a sarcastic version of a future reality. In this world, everyone must cycle on Bike ...
  • Black Mirror: Be Right Back (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2013
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    Hayley Atwell plays Martha, whose boyfriend Ash (Domhnall Gleeson) is a "social media addict." They decide to move to a cottage in the middle of nowhere, but then Ash is ...
  • Black Mirror: White Bear (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2013
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    On the face of it, this sounds like your garden-variety post-apocalyptic scenario, but there's probably more to it than meets the eye. Toni (Being Human's Lenora ...
  • Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2013
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    Meet Waldo... a CGI blue bear from a children's educational TV show who in reality is an anarchic character on a satirical late-night topical comedy show. Behind the ...
  • Black Mirror: White Christmas (TV)
    United Kingdom - 2014
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    Matt Trent (Jon Hamm) and Joe Potter (Rafe Spall) are stationed at a small, remote outpost in the middle of a snowy wilderness. On Christmas Day, Matt is preparing ...
  • The Shadow Line (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2011
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    TV Miniseries (2011). 7 Episodes. A man discovered shot to death in the back of a car is found to be Harvey Wratten, head of one of London's largest organized crime ...
  • Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2008
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    Aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) has his own video blog and is trying to join the prestigious Evil League of Evil, however, his dastardly deeds ...
  • The Lost Room (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 2006
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    TV Miniseries (6 episodes). The story follows a detective as he investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe. In the 1960s, an ...
  • Corleone (TV Miniseries)
    Italy - 2007
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    'Corleone' narrates the life of Totò Riina between 1943 and 1993. From a difficult adolescence to his rise to power within Cosa Nostra, passing via the many bloody episodes which saw his ascent.
  • I, Claudius (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 1976
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    This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed ...
  • Cranford (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2007
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    Based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, it is a five-part period drama set in the 1840s which follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of ...
  • Hellsing Ultimate (TV Miniseries)
    Japan - 2006
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    Miniseries (2006-2012). 10 OVAs. Integra Hellsing's uncle, Richard Hellsing, jealous of his niece becoming the head of the Hellsing organization, hunts her down, ...
  • Little Dorrit (TV Series)
    United Kingdom - 2008
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    An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'Little Dorrit'. It tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again.
  • The Missing (TV Series)
    United Kingdom - 2014
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    TV Series (2014). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. When Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their 5-year-old son Oliver, their family holiday turns into a nightmare when ...
  • Afro Samurai (TV Miniseries)
    Japan - 2007
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    After watching his father die in a duel against an unbeatable villian known only as 'Justice,' young Afro fixes his life on the study of swords and revenge. The tale of ...
  • Top of the Lake (TV Miniseries)
    Australia - 2013
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    TV Series (2013). When pregnant, 12-year-old Tui tries to kill herself in a freezing New Zealand lake, Detective Robin Griffin has plenty of questions for the girl. But ...
  • Parade's End (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2012
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    TV Miniseries (2012). 5 Episodies. Story is set against the backdrop of WWI and follows Christopher Tietjens, a top civil servant from a background of wealth and ...
  • Emma (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2009
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    Emma Woodhouse (Romola Garai) seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She ...
  • Jane Eyre (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2006
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    TV Miniseries (2006). 4 Episodes. After a wretched childhood, orphaned Jane Eyre yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at Thornfield Hall, where ...
  • Wolf Hall (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2015
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    TV Miniseries (2015). 6 Episodes. 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. ...
  • Millennium (TV Miniseries)
    Sweden - 2010
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    TV Miniseries (2010). 6 Episodes. Arising from the success of the film trilogy "Millennium", film adaptation of the original books by Stieg Larsson, one of the biggest ...
  • The Forsyte Saga (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2002
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    In Victorian England, Soames Forsyte, a man from a wealthy and arrogant family, meets a falls in love with Irene Herron, a poor woman. After taking her step-mother's ...
  • Our World War (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2014
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    TV Miniseries (2014). 3 Episodes. Tense combat drama series revealing experiences of British soldiers in World War One.
  • Any Human Heart (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2010
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    TV Miniseries. 4 episodes. A TV miniseries adaptation of William Boyd's novel. A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the ...
  • The Best Intentions (TV Miniseries)
    Sweden - 1991
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    It is based on the story of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin (whose fictional names are Henrik and Anna). Henrik, a humble theology student, meets Anna, a girl from a ...
  • Sense and Sensibility (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2008
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    TV Miniseries (2008). 3 Episodes. A tv adaptation of the classic Jane Austen tale of love and class conflict. Marianne Dashwood (Wakefield) has fallen deeply in love with ...
  • War and Peace (TV Miniseries)
    Russia - 2007
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    Leo Tolstoy's epic historical novel comes to life in this sumptuous remaking of this timeless tale of self-sacrifice and self-indulgence, set against the background of ...
  • World Without End (TV Miniseries)
    Canada - 2012
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    TV Miniseries. 8 Episodes. Sequel from Ken Follet's novel 'The Pillars of the Earth'. The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into ...
  • Birdsong (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2012
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    TV Miniseries (2012). 2 Episodes. As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
  • Okupas (TV Miniseries)
    Argentina - 2000
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    TV miniseries (2000). 11 episodes. Four young man with different backgrounds merge in the same house and have to face new experiences living in a stolen house, being ...
  • The Thorn Birds (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 1983
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    Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as an ambitious Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart, whose life ...
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2008
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    TV Miniseries (2008). 4 Episodes. In the late 19th century, Tess Durbeyfield is sent off to visit a rich cousin, Alec D'Urberville, when her parents learn learn that they ...
  • La Regenta (TV Miniseries)
    Spain - 1995
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    La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, published in 1884 and 1885.
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Miniseries)
    United Kingdom - 2009
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    TV mini-series based on the diary of a teenage girl in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
  • The Kingdom I (TV Miniseries)
    Denmark - 1994
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    Adapted from a twelve-part television series, Lars von Trier's marathon hospital soap opera-cum-ghost story is set in a labyrinthine Copenhagen medical institution known ...
  • Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (TV Miniseries)
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1984
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    It follows Maria Simon (Marita Breuer), a woman living in the fictional village of Schabbach. The film covers the years 1919 to 1982, depicting how the events of German ...
  • Roots (TV Miniseries)
    United States - 1977
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    From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be ...
  • Los gozos y las sombras (TV Series)
    Spain - 1981
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    An adaptation of the homonymous novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. It tells the story of several families during the Second Spanish Republic.
  • Crematorium (TV Miniseries)
    Spain - 2011
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    TV Series (2011). 8 Episodes.
  • The Book of Negroes (TV Miniseries)
    Canada - 2015
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    TV Miniseries (2015). 6 Episodes. A universal story of loss, courage and triumph, The Book of Negroes recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable ...
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  • Band of Brothers (TV Miniseries)
  • Chernobyl (TV Miniseries)
  • The Best of Youth (TV Miniseries)
  • The Corner (TV Miniseries)
  • Brideshead Revisited (TV Miniseries)
  • Show Me a Hero (TV Miniseries)
  • Generation War (TV Miniseries)
  • Pride and Prejudice (TV Miniseries)
  • Olive Kitteridge (TV Miniseries)
  • John Adams (TV Miniseries)
  • Generation Kill (TV Miniseries)
  • North & South (TV Miniseries)
  • The Pacific (TV Miniseries)
  • Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV Miniseries)
  • Mildred Pierce (TV Miniseries)
  • Holocaust (TV Miniseries)
  • The Pillars of the Earth (TV Miniseries)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Miniseries)
  • Dekalog: The Ten Commandments (TV Miniseries)
  • Angels in America (TV Miniseries)
  • Dead Set (TV Miniseries)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (TV Miniseries)
  • FLCL (TV Miniseries)
  • The Sinner (TV Miniseries)
  • Black Mirror: The National Anthem (TV)
  • Black Mirror: The Entire History of You (TV)
  • Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits (TV)
  • Black Mirror: Be Right Back (TV)
  • Black Mirror: White Bear (TV)
  • Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment (TV)
  • Black Mirror: White Christmas (TV)
  • The Shadow Line (TV Miniseries)
  • Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (TV Miniseries)
  • The Lost Room (TV Miniseries)
  • Corleone (TV Miniseries)
  • I, Claudius (TV Miniseries)
  • Cranford (TV Miniseries)
  • Hellsing Ultimate (TV Miniseries)
  • Little Dorrit (TV Series)
  • The Missing (TV Series)
  • Afro Samurai (TV Miniseries)
  • Top of the Lake (TV Miniseries)
  • Parade's End (TV Miniseries)
  • Emma (TV Miniseries)
  • Jane Eyre (TV Miniseries)
  • Wolf Hall (TV Miniseries)
  • Millennium (TV Miniseries)
  • The Forsyte Saga (TV Miniseries)
  • Our World War (TV Miniseries)
  • Any Human Heart (TV Miniseries)
  • The Best Intentions (TV Miniseries)
  • Sense and Sensibility (TV Miniseries)
  • War and Peace (TV Miniseries)
  • World Without End (TV Miniseries)
  • Birdsong (TV Miniseries)
  • Okupas (TV Miniseries)
  • The Thorn Birds (TV Miniseries)
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles (TV Miniseries)
  • La Regenta (TV Miniseries)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Miniseries)
  • The Kingdom I (TV Miniseries)
  • Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (TV Miniseries)
  • Roots (TV Miniseries)
  • Los gozos y las sombras (TV Series)
  • Crematorium (TV Miniseries)
  • The Book of Negroes (TV Miniseries)
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