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Sharpe's Mission (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, special forces, british army, british soldier, scout, traitor, disfigured face, journalist ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: france
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Sharpe's Honour (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story: 1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought ...
Style: exciting, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, medieval, revolution, british soldier, struggle, freedom, revolutionary, special forces, revolutionary war, royal family, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time: 1810s, 19th century
Place: europe, france
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The White Princess (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, stylized, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: british royal family, monarchy, palace intrigue, medieval, royalty, princess, loveless marriage, nudity, arranged marriage, dishonesty, monarch, royal family ...
Time: 15th century, ancient times, medieval times, 16th century
Place: england, britain
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By the Sword Divided (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: By the Sword Divided is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series was a historical drama set during the mid 17th century, dealing with the impact of the English Civil War on the fictional Lacey family, made ...
Style: historical drama, baroque, period drama
Plot: medieval, peplum, time machine, british monarchy, puritan, civil war, parliament
Time: 17th century
Place: britain, england
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 8.1
 81K
The Tudors (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: stylized, captivating, serious, historical drama, soap opera ...
Audience: teens
Plot: intrigue, queen, tudors, power struggle, royal family, historical character, king, british history, british royal family, love triangle, royalty, heir ...
Time: 16th century, ancient times, middle ages, medieval times
Place: england, britain, ireland, europe
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 8.5
 1K
Danger UXB (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: world war two, terrorism, world war, military life, soldier, battles, danger, anti hero, fall in love, wartime life, war, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: london, england, europe
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Sharpe's Justice (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company of Yorkshire Yeomen. His duties include protecting mill owners from restless workers who are on ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, sorcery, revolution, chivalry, revenge, british soldier, homecoming, british army, fictional biography, half brother ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: yorkshire
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Sharpe's Gold (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story: Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, medieval, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, french revolution, british empire, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, special forces ...
Time: 19th century
Place: spain, europe
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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, winston churchill, exile, british history, british politics, prime minister, member of parliament, british soldier, political leader
Time: 1930s, 1920s
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 8.5
 827
Tenko (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, jungle, military prison, prisoners of war, women's prison, soldier, prison, war, pow, prisoner of war camp, death, torture ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: singapore
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The Cinder Path (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
TV show
Story: Tale of a farmer's son who gets involved with two sisters, then goes to fight in the trenches in WW1.
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, period piece, period drama
Plot: world war one, romantic relationship, sibling relationship, battles, couples, farm, hopes, war, military, redemption, witnessing a crime, dishonesty ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england
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 8.1
 33K
Strike Back (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorist, mission, soldier, top secret, swat team, heroes, one man army, cia agent, daring rescue, heroic mission, terrorism ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: pakistan, afghanistan, iraq, middle east, sudan ...
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The Passing Bells (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
TV show
Story: At the outbreak of war, two teenage boys defy their parents to sign up.
Style: historical drama, epic, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: world war one, military, wartime life, soldier, battles, life is a bitch, hopes, great war, friendship, danger, young soldier, battlefield ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: europe
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Ain't Misbehavin' (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: "Ain't Misbehavin'" is a delightful wartime comedy about two very different bandsmen (Eddie and Eric) and their misadventures with gangsters, romance, and black-marketing in Blitz-time London.
Plot: world war two, theater, pop music, deserter, private detective, air raid, musician, mother, royal air force, gangster, nightclub, nurse ...
Time: 1940s
Place: scotland, london
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House of Saddam (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 232 min.
TV show
Story: A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisers.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, clever, political ...
Plot: saddam hussein, dictatorship, politics, execution, megalomaniac, historical character, treason, political unrest, rivalry, family relations, psychopath, ruler ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 70s, 2000s ...
Place: middle east, iraq, baghdad iraq, iran
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 8.4
 27K
'Allo 'Allo! (1982)
Genre: Comedy, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. The story is set up in a small town café in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, parody, dark comedy, double entendre ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, german army, farce, cafe, french resistance, satire, world war, soldier, cooking show, girl, lgbt, partisan ...
Time: 1940s
Place: france, europe
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The First Churchills (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Winston Churchill's biography of his ancestors.
Style: historical drama, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: politics, royalty, love, british monarchy, time machine, historical event, historical figure, british politics, biopic, family relations, soldier, state affairs ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 17th century
Place: britain, england
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The Devil's Whore (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 189 min.
TV show
Story: Set between the years 1642 and 1660, "The Devil's Whore" charts the progress of the English Civil War through the eyes of the a 17 year old girl, the fictional Angelica Fanshawe.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, epic, stylized ...
Plot: parliament, treason, civil war, revolution, battles, political unrest, rebellion, betrayal, state affairs, royalty, sexual tension, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 17th century, medieval times
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV ...
Style: spooky, sitcom, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: supermarionation, puppet, spy, alien, invasion, aviation, magic, mars, race against time, terrorism, heroes, good versus evil ...
Time: future
Place: england, europe
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The Sinking of the Laconia (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany
TV show
Story: Two-part drama based on the true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
Style: touching, suspenseful, serious, realistic, nautical
Plot: submarine, world war two, rescue, military, pow, ship, sinking ship, danger, ocean, bomber, boat, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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 7.5
 11K
Parade's End (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 287 min.
TV show
Story: In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in ...
Style: serious, realistic, clever, period piece, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war one, high society, crumbling marriage, love triangle, adultery, unfaithful wife, couple relations, lovers, estate, couples, love and romance, marriage ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, Hungary
Duration: 471 min.
TV show
Story: The Pillars of the Earth is an eight-part 2010 TV miniseries, adapted from Ken Follett's novel of the same name.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, costume drama, historical drama, realistic ...
Plot: medieval, king, power struggle, state affairs, cathedral, throne, catholic church, heir, religions or cults, culture clash, world politics, storytelling ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, ancient times, 50s
Place: england, britain, europe
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The Last of the Mohicans (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 344 min.
TV show
Story: The classic story of Hawkeye.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, emotional ...
Plot: native american, scout, military, battles, forbidden love, soldier, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, love and romance, rivalry, heroes, war ...
Time: 18th century
Place: usa, new york, new york state
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The Boat (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, UK, Italy
Duration: 293 min.
TV show
Story: Life aboard a German U-Boat during World War II.
Style: bleak, gloomy, cult classic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: submarine, world war two, underwater, navy, sinking ship, battles, torpedo, military, military life, nazism, life is a bitch, survival ...
Time: year 1941, 20th century, 1940s
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 8.7
 184K
Rome (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 1193 min.
TV show
Story: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Style: epic, exciting, period piece, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, historical character, power struggle, emperor, antiquity, intrigue, warrior, roman soldier, female nudity, betrayal ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c., ancient times, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, greece, alexandria egypt ...
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 6.7
 568
The Protectors (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. ...
Style: detective
Plot: spy, espionage, teamwork, investigation, private detective, female detective, mission, private investigator, bullet
Time: 70s
Place: london, italy, paris france
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Hostile Waters (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story: Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, rescue, politics, state affairs, save the day, heroic mission, danger, military, government agency, race against time, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: soviet union, atlantic ocean
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The Camomile Lawn (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: Presents the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. Follows very closely the Mary Wesley novel. Begins with a funeral and uses the reminiscences of those gathered to fill in details in the lives of Richard and Helena and ...
Style: controversial, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, spanish civil war, family relations, family gatherings, unrequited love, cousin, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 80s, 1930s ...
Place: england, hawaii, europe, london, cornwall
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 8.3
 377
1914-1918 (1996)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Dame Judi Dench in the UK and Salome Jens in the United States. The series won two ...
Plot: world war one, great war, fictional history, intrigue, biopic, world war, bolshevik, czar, influenza, russian civil war, poison gas, russian revolution ...
Time: 1910s
Place: turkey, mexico, france, belgium, versailles
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 7.2
 695
Fireball XL5 (1962)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The show was produced in 1962 by husband and wife team Gerry and ...
Style: futuristic, weird
Audience: kids
Plot: supermarionation, robot, puppet, spaceship, spacecraft, outer space, captain, doctor, ship captain, alien race, alien, professor ...
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