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- CreatorPeter MorganStarsClaire FoyOlivia ColmanImelda StauntonFollows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.
- StarsTom HanksNick SearcyLane SmithDramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program.
- StarsLeVar BurtonRobert ReedJohn AmosA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
- CreatorCraig MazinStarsJessie BuckleyJared HarrisStellan SkarsgårdIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
- CreatorErnest KinoyStarsDebbi MorganDorian HarewoodPaul KosloThe dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.
- StarsJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhRosemary HarrisThe saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
- StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon LivingstonThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.
- StarsMatheus NachtergaeleSelton MelloVirginia CavendishThe adventures of friends João Grilo, a poor man a liar, and Chicó, the most cowardly of men. Both struggle for daily bread in the Northeast of Brazil and crossing for several episodes fooling all of the small village of Taperoá, in the backlands of Paraiba. Adaptation of the work of Ariano Suassuna.
- StarsTimothy BottomsJane SeymourBruce BoxleitnerScreen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel which begins in the years after the American Civil War and, through the story of the Trask family, brings to light a struggle and conflict inherent in the human condition.
- StarsPaul GiamattiLaura LinneyJohn DossettThe life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.
- StarsNed BeattyBrian BlessedErnest BorgnineThe different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth. The residents of Pompeii include Diomed, a common upstart merchant whose self-made riches from trade allow him to consider running for political office against sitting city magistrate Quintus and an impoverished aristocratic marriage for his daughter Julia; the cultivated Greek Glaucus; the gladiator Lydon; the noble-born Antonius and his sister Ione, the evil Isis-priest Arbaces who is after (their) money and power; the persecution-fearing Christian slaves Petrus, his true love Chloe, and their secret leader Olinthus.
- CreatorBruno HellerWilliam J. MacDonaldJohn MiliusStarsKevin McKiddRay StevensonPolly WalkerA down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
- StarsAl PacinoMeryl StreepEmma ThompsonSeveral disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.
- StarsNelson XavierTânia AlvesRoberto BonfimDepicts the last six months of Lampião and his wife Maria Bonita's lives, focusing on his both sides: a man who was the bloodthirsty gang leader and enemy of the authorities, while simultaneously praised as a hero by the local population of Brazilian northeastern's arid countryside.
- StarsTony RamosBruna LombardiTarcísio MeiraA cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.
- StarsBetty FariaJosé WilkerStênio GarciaWhen the criminal Paulo Alberto is executed in the Baixada Fluminense, his lover Marluce keeps an old clock he stole in his last heist with a treasure hidden in its interior. The dirty detective Tito Lívio tries to retrieve the object and the honest Gilberto protects Marluce. Meanwhile, an innocent and simple man, Valdir, is wrongly accused of a heist and sent to prison. Together with Paulo Alberto's cousin, Jorge Fernando, who had had contact with a political prisoner, they found the criminal organization "Falange Vermelha", using the principles of union, confidence and brotherhood.
- StarsBetty FariaJosé de AbreuMalu MaderDepicts the moral values of Rio de Janeiro's middle class in the 1950s as Lurdinha and Marcos fall in love at first sight, but her parents don't approve of the boy because his parents are divorced. They are very conservative and try to keep the young couple apart at any cost. Unable to defend her love for Marcos, she keeps her love affair a secret.
- StarsJane BadlerMichael DurrellFaye GrantA seemingly peaceful alien race, arrives at earth and asks for help to ensure their own planets survival. However, the visitors agenda turns out be much darker.
- StarsMalu MaderJosé WilkerCláudia AbreuMiniseries about Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s, when a politically-engaged student falls in love with a left-wing journalist's daughter who doesn't care for politics. The romance follows 15 years of Brazilian history, from President João Goulart's deposition by military reactionary forces to the first signs of restoration of democracy in the 1980s.
- StarsNoomi RapaceMichael NyqvistLena EndreThe adventures of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander.
- CreatorScott FrankAllan ScottStarsAnya Taylor-JoyChloe PirrieBill CampOrphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.
- CreatorAndré BormanisMickey FisherKaren JanszenStarsJihaeAlberto AmmannSammi RotibiThe first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.
- StarsEdgar RamírezAlexander ScheerFadi Abi SamraThe story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
- StarsLaurence OlivierAverell HarrimanAnthony EdenA groundbreaking 26-part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II.
- StarsFrances McDormandRichard JenkinsAnn DowdA middle-school math teacher Olive and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years.
- StarsAlec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher PlummerThe dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
- StarsDerek JacobiGeoffrey WawroJames HollandA series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.
- CreatorLeslie GreifMichael TolkinStarsMiles TellerMatthew GoodeDan FoglerOscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's never-before-revealed experiences of making The Godfather (1972).
- StarsCallum TurnerAnthony BoyleAustin ButlerDuring World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.