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Hell on Wheels will follow the story of Cullen Bohannan, a southern soldier who heads west to avenge the death of his wife, murdered by Union soldiers. In the wake of Reconstruction, he travels to the work site of the Transcontinental Railroad, tracking his wife's killers along the way.

Based on the manga series of the same name created by Hideaki Sorachi, this show is a Japanese animation that takes place in Edo, Japan (former name of present day Tokyo). In the early 17th century, Japan adopted strict isolation policies and severed almost all ties with foreign countries.

25 years after the events of the hit historical drama "Belgravia".

A thriller about survival and human dignity. It tells the stories of youth who lived during a time when sovereignty and human rights were taken away from them, and they had to put their lives on the line just to achieve the most basic happiness. Jang Tae Sang is a wealthy man of Bukchon. Rather than being interested in justice, the current reality of his life is most important to him. However, a threat appears when he encounters a woman who will completely change his life. The drama will follow that process in detail and raise the question of how to live like a human.

Zorro, a 2024 Spanish TV series produced by Secuoya Studios for Amazon Prime in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Latin America and the United States. The ten-episode series will be directed by Javier Quintas, Jorge Saavedra and José Luis Alegría with Miguel Bernardeau cast in the lead, along with Renata Notni. It will debut during the first half of 2024.

In this satirical comedy, a zany nobleman navigates through family feuds and clashes with peasants in his quest to become Poland's most famous figure.

Kevin Arnold recalls growing up during the 60's; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting.

The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the 19th century American West.

The Name of the Rose centers on William of Baskerville, the 14th century Franciscan monk who investigates a series of grisly murders in the high-end TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's bestseller The Name of The Rose.

Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens' novels in half-hour episodes, including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin's Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.

As master assassin Usui Yuen looks into a series of assassinations made on the grand samurai clan, the Satsuma, he encounters Kurima Raizo, member and survivor of one of the attacks. Together, they discover the true nature of these murders is bigger than over stolen resources. As they get closer to the truth, will they come out alive to exact revenge?

1961. In the middle of the Cold War, an English spy was sent to Berlin shortly before the Wall was built. Berlin was then a nest of double agents.

Elise, who is a wicked-hearted empress, is executed for her crimes and spends her second life as selfless doctor to atone for her previous karma. Upon dying again suddenly, Elise finds herself reincarnated yet again in her original life, only with a new outlook and all of her modern surgical skills intact.

Set in the early 1960s in New York City, the Playboy Bunnies who work at the Playboy Club show their views of the changing times.

Yesterday wilderness. Tomorrow civilisation. In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.

This show stars David Walliams and Jessica Raine as Agatha Christie's married couple Tommy and Tuppence. The show is a adventure series, set in 1950s Britain, as the country rises from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War. The couple soon find themselves stumbling into a world of murder, undercover agents and conspiracy.

In 1959, Maria Luiza is a rich and dutiful woman who has always depended on her father and husband. After being left alone in Rio, against her better judgment - and to the chagrin of her strict father - Maria Luiza decides to stay in the city and dedicate herself to turning her husband's property into a Bossa Nova club. In this passion-driven transformation in Maria Luiza, she will be inspired by liberal and feminist new friends: Adélia, Lígia and Thereza.

Animated adaptation of the popular chinese comic of the same name.

Set in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, this series is a Western whose heroes are women. With most of the men gone, and those who remain battling for control, the women struggle to survive, to find their independence, and to build a life in which to thrive and raise families.

It's 1923, and the mysterious blood source Ascra has unleashed a horde of vampires across Japan. In response, the government spawns Code Zero. With S-rank vampire Defrott and the rookie Kurusu, this kill squad is made for one reason: to hunt the undead!

Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret.

Adapted from Sarit Yishai-Levy's bestselling novel of the same name and set in the early-mid 20th century, the series will chart the passionate and tragic history of a family living through the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate and Israel's War of Independence.

The loves that tear apart and bring together generations of an upper-middle class British family from 1906-1921. Based on the novels by John Galsworthy.

Long before the FBI and the Secret Service, the Pinker­ton's National Detective Agency was the most feared law enforcement organization in the land. Experts of undercover operative and masters of disguise, no one ever saw them coming. Set in a young America still reeling from the Civil War, The Pinkertons is an action-adventure detective series that follows Allan Pinkerton, his son, William, and America's first female detective, Kate Warne, as they solve crimes throughout the "Wild West" of the 1860s.

The story of entrepreneur Don Cornelius, who developed the Soul Train show, which rose to prominence in the 1970s.