Films and TV series in History genre

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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How We Got to Now

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.5

How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson is a six part documentary series that reveals the story behind the remarkable ideas that made modern life possible; the unsung heroes that brought them into the w...

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Can't Get You Out of My Head

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8.5

In six films, Adam Curtis traces the different forces across the world that have led to now. It covers a wide range—including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opi...

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Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government’s reliance on ordinary people.

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John Adams

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through...

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Jesus of Nazareth

Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.

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A Small Light

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2023 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and t...

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Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Penelope Keith explores our changing relationship with villages

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Lucky!

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 8.5

The extraordinary story of Bernie Ecclestone's meteoric rise from post-war car dealer to the creation and 50-year reign over the cutthroat world of Formula One.

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