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Jamestown (2017)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
Style:
suspense, costume drama, disturbing, period piece, historical drama, captivating, melancholic, atmospheric, realistic, period drama ...
Plot:
colony, colonial america, settler, love affair, working class family, society, intrigue, love triangle, conspiracy, rivals, life, colonization, love story, british history, romantic triangle, ancient, strength, black, revolutionary war, british empire, community, alternate history, women, jousting, costume
Time:
17th century, ancient times, future, 1600s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, period drama, captivating and costume drama films and TV series with plots about costume, society, family relations, british history, love and romance, intrigue and ancient mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Jamestown: Banished (2015), Barkskins (2020), Gunpowder (2017), Saints & Strangers (2015), New Worlds (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is 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. ...
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serious, costume drama, historical drama, tense, realistic ...
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colony, life is a bitch, danger, community, prison, confined, penal colony, moral dilemma, control, governor, brutality, colonialism ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, england, oceania, britain, new south wales
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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England, 1603. Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland has taken the throne. With the country at war with catholic Spain, English catholics are persecuted and priests caught saying mass are punished with death. Several attempts have already ...
Style:
costume drama, saga, period piece, historical drama, factual ...
Audience:
adult
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, scotland
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Saints & Strangers is a story that goes beyond the familiar historical account of Thanksgiving and the founding of Plymouth Plantation, revealing the trials and tribulations of the settlers at Plymouth: 102 men, women and children who sailed on ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, educational ...
Plot:
colonial america, conquistador, medieval, new world, thanksgiving, sea voyage, indians, american indian, ambition, power struggle, political intrigue, religious conversion ...
Time:
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Place:
america
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100%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
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Story:
The 1680s bring a new king, Restoration and more tyranny. In Massachusetts, a robber's son falls for an anti-monarchist. In England, young lady falls for an outlaw.
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, costume drama, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
17th century
Place:
england, new england, massachusetts, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style:
captivating, family saga, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
countryside, estate, love affair, rich and poor, couple relations, love and romance, society, master and servant, poverty, social differences, family relations, english countryside ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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The chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in late 18th century Canada. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, harsh, exciting, historical drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
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Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 180 min.
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period piece, costume drama, suspense, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
period piece, realistic, serious, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
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Time:
19th century, 18th century, 1790s, georgian era
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50%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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historical drama, period piece, captivating, realistic, serious ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Duration: 50 min.
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Similarity:
100%
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period piece, costume drama, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
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Audience:
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Country: Australia
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serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, historical drama ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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costume drama, spiritual, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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captivating, historical drama, exciting, serious, realistic ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
historical drama, period piece, political thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
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chinese civil war, political intrigue, spy, chinese history, undercover agent, power struggle, espionage, communist party, economic crisis, life is a bitch, moral ambiguity, intrigue ...
Time:
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
TV show
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costume drama, period piece, historical drama, period drama
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