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Small Island

Small Island

Description: Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War II.
Genre: Television programme
First episode air date: December 6, 2009
Initial Release: 2006
Director: John Alexander
Narrated By: Hugh Quarshie
Nominations: British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, MORE

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Low Winter Sun

Low Winter Sun

Plot: The line between cops and criminals is sometimes blurry. When human nature intercedes and a man is forced to take matters into his own hands, there's not a badge big enough that will stop him. Detroit homicide detective Frank Agnew is used to helping others, but he can't help himself when a loved one...

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Plot: The Doctor, a mysterious 2,000-year-old time-travelling figure, and his companions journey across time and space in a ship known as TARDIS.

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The Game

The Game

Plot: While their men try to hone their gridiron talents on the field, the wives and girlfriends of pro football players sharpen their own skills behind the scenes when it comes to the power plays they have to use to get their guys the best agents, the best endorsements, the best merchandising deals -- even...

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Summer of Rockets

Summer of Rockets

Plot: `Summer of Rockets' is a drama series starring Keeley Hawes, Timothy Spall and Toby Stephens, which is set in Cold War Britain during the late 1950s. The series follows Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor, who is tasked with a secret mission by MI5. Samuel specialises in the development of hearing...

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The Pacific

The Pacific

Plot: Three Marines from different regiments face difficult situations and must struggle to survive during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

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The Durrells

The Durrells

Plot: This drama series is based on Gerald Durrell's classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs and stars Keeley Hawes in the lead role of Louisa Durrell. The story follows an English family in the 1930s. Louisa, a young widow with four children, struggles with life as a single parent living in Bournemouth. The Durrell...

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Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

Plot: The story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from 1942 to the end of World War II. A collection of fifty portraits illustrated by archive footage and recounted in voice.

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Sherlock

Sherlock

Plot: Dr Watson, a former army doctor, finds himself sharing a flat with Sherlock Holmes, an eccentric individual with a knack for solving crimes. Together, they take on the most unusual cases.

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Generation War

Generation War

Plot: Wilhelm and his younger friends, Friedhelm, Charlotte, Viktor and Greta, part ways in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to reunite after the war.

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Grantchester

Grantchester

Plot: Reverend Sidney Chambers joins forces with Inspector Geordie Keating and helps him investigate and solve crimes in the village of Grantchester.

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To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth

Plot: To the Ends of the Earth is the name given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novelsu2014Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, and Fire Down Below u2014by British author William Golding. Wikipedia

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Poldark

Poldark

Plot: Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002. Wikipedia

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Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall

Plot: Wolf Hall is a British television serial first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015. The six-part series is an adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel's novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, a fictionalised ... Wikipedia

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High Hopes

High Hopes

Plot: Richard Fagin Hepplewhite is an agoraphobic ex-criminal who runs a business from his home in the Welsh valleys, after serving at Strangeways prison. He lives with his Mam, and two teenage tearaways called Charlie and Hoffman.

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From Darkness

From Darkness

Plot: Clair, an ex-police officer, moves away from the city in order to escape her violent past that still disturbs her. But soon, she is dragged back to the case by John, her former lover and colleague.

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Our World War

Our World War

Plot: Tense combat drama revealing real experiences of British soldiers in the First World War.

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

Plot: Robert Crawley risks losing the family estate after his heirs die in the Titanic. Soon, the Crawleys are introduced to Matthew, the next heir in line, who resists the aristocratic way of life.

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A Suitable Boy

A Suitable Boy

Plot: In 1951 and newly independent India, passionate literature student Lata Mehra is torn between family duty and the promise of romance as three very different men try to win her heart. Based on the novel by Vikram Seth.

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Mr Selfridge

Mr Selfridge

Plot: Harry Selfridge is a businessman who comes to the United Kingdom and uses his personality and skills to climb the ladder of commercial success.

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Land Girls

Land Girls

Plot: Created by Roland Moore, `Land Girls' follows the lives and loves of four girls away from home, doing their bit for Britain in the Women's Land Army. Set on the Hoxley Manor estate, against the backdrop of war-weary Britain in the 1940s, the series depicts how the girls balance their working lives at...

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Still Game

Still Game

Plot: `Still Game' is a long-running Scottish sitcom, set in the fictional area of Craiglang in Glasgow and featuring characters from the series `Chewin' the Fat'. The show began in theatre before moving to radio and television, and proved so popular among its Scottish audience that it was broadcast nationally...

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Blackout

Blackout

Plot: A politician awakens in a daze, hung-over after binging on alcohol. He comes to the realisation that he may have inadvertently had a hand in a murder.

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Luther

Luther

Plot: John Luther, a passionate detective, ends up befriending a psychopath and murderer, whom he could not arrest due to lack of evidence, and they solve various cases together.

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