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Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mary Steenburgen

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Liliana Ohno

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The homonymous opera is a glimpse into the life of Lili...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucia Lucas

During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amleto Novelli

The year is 1173. England and France are at war. The destiny of the two great powers has never been so intertwined. As King Henry's wife, Queen...

Genre: History

Cast: Valeri Alessandro

Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Pugh

The third and final specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yoshino Takamori

This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elliot Page

Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victoria Wood

Nezha gets into trouble and implicates his parents, who get punished by the heavens along with him. He bravely steps up and admits his fault, which...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Michelle Yeoh

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stéphane Bak

With cunning and courage the japanese warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu managed to unify Japan after 150 years of civil war.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Lee

Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shannon

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julie Hoult

As part of the BBC2 50th anniversary celebrations comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were commissioned to produce this spoof history of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Enfield

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to...

Genre: History

Cast: Micheline Presle

In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Confrontation between the superhumans and the evil forces of warlords during the Republic of China.

Genre: Action

Cast: Xing Yu

One will to create oceans. One will to summon the mulberry fields. One will to slaughter countless devils. One will to eradicate innumerable...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Su Shangqing

Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: David Tennant

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Based on the life of Empress Myeongseong (1851 - 1895), the first official wife of King Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon dynasty. She was killed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Jin-woo

The road to becoming an empress is paved with treachery. Ruyi is a consort who quickly learns to navigate the treacherous politics of the the royal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhou Xun

When a low-ranked fairy accidentally resurrects a powerful demon, their fates become cosmically entangled as the world is thrown into turmoil.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Shuxin

Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Tajima

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keith Michell

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yang Yang

Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the questionnaire survey conducted by NHK, it is shining in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephanie Cole

Sasuke Furuta is a vassal of the great warlord Nobunaga Oda and a man obsessed with tea ceremony and material desires in his pursuit of a fortuitous...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Koji Ohkura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tang Guoqiang

When the men go to war, the women also battle. This tale takes place in the XIX century, during a terrible civil war. Italy’s revolutionary...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Mariana Ximenes

A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Bathurst

Set in a fictional European country in 1924, a Japanese exchange student meets a mysterious, brilliant girl who only leaves the library to sleep. Her...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hidenobu Kiuchi

Before he died at Honnouji in 1582, the great warlord Oda Nobunaga stood before a statue of Buddha and thought to himself that he'd committed so many...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Jun Fukuyama

Kim Chunchu is the grandson of King Jinji, but when his grandfather is overthrown, Chunchu is denied the chance to become a successor to the throne...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Choi Soo-jong

A love story revolves around the 9th Princess of Western Liang as she journeys to the Central Plains to fulfill a marriage alliance with the Crown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peng Xiaoran

A tale of the rise of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, from a childhood as a slave to becoming a powerful king. He realized his dream of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Liu