British Empire
TV shows and films set in and around, and focus on the British Empire.
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- CreatorRobert LevineJonathan E. SteinbergStarsJessica Parker KennedyToby StephensHannah NewFollows Captain Flint and his pirates twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel "Treasure Island."
- StarsNaomi BattrickMax BeesleyClaire CoxA drama about English settlers in America in 1617.
- StarsEdward FoxRobert PowellTrevor HowardA historical account on the life of the Zulu King Shaka.
- CreatorPaul Mayeda BergesGurinder ChadhaShahrukh HusainStarsTom BatemanLesley NicolLeo SuterA look at the lives of residents living in a Delhi mansion at the cusp of the 19th Century.
- StarsTim Pigott-SmithGeraldine JamesWendy MorganThe sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
- StarsMichael PalinCharles McKeownBarbara NewThis show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn.
- StarsSwell Ariel OrMichael AloniHila SaadaA family living through the Ottoman Empire, The British Mandate and Israel's War of Independence. The multi-generational historical melodrama will shoot across the country in Hebrew, English, Ladino and Arabic.
- StarsKabir BediAdolfo CeliPhilippe LeroyMalaysia, the second half of 1800. The English Queen Victoria owns the domain of the eastern lands of Borneo, commanded by Lord James Guillonk, fierce and ruthless conqueror, father of the beautiful Marianna Guillon, nicknamed "the Pearl of Labuan". The brave Sandokan a young Indian prince, who as a child lost his kingdom because of the English Invasion. He is now the captain of a den of pirates who make constantly attacks against the British army.
- StarsBhanu UdayAtul SrivastavaTara-Alisha BerryThe writings of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore come to life in this collection of tales set in early-20th-century Bengal.
- StarsAnirban BhattacharyaRidhima GhoshSubrat DuttaSet in 1930s the series is based on the adventures of Byomkesh and his friend and biographer Ajit, who accompanies Bakshi during his investigations.
- StarsMary LarkinKerry McGuireJon EnglishMary Mulvane, an 18 year old Irish girl, is transported to New South Wales for seven years for doing little else than protecting her own property. She must endure the horror of transport to Australia, and years of anxiety as a convict. Mary, her friends and her family fight out their battle against a lively historical backdrop - Irelands 1798 Rebellion. Australia's Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804 and the 1808 Rum Rebellion.
- StarsBen CrossAmy IrvingChristopher LeeStory of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.
- StarsOliver Jackson-CohenSarah SnookLachy HulmeIn 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
- StarsTrevor EveSusannah HarkerMichael ByrneSet in the 1930s, a former Scotland Yard detective is sent to colonial Kenya to head the new criminal investigation unit.
- StarsDyan CannonHarry HamlinIan CharlesonElderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is littered with revenge, lust, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.
- CreatorKim LeMastersStarsLee HorsleyLynda CarterRodney A. GrantThe further adventures based on characters created by James Fennimore Cooper. Hawkeye the woodsman meets a brave English woman trying to free her husband from the French. Set during the French and Indian War in the area of the Hudson Valley.
- CreatorAbhimanyu SinghAbhimanyu SinghStarsJashn KohliMohit RainaMukul DevA chronicle of the lives and events that led to the brave and epic last stand of the 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh regiment of the British Indian Army against thousands of Afghani invaders in the September of 1897.
- StarsHayley MillsDavid RobbHolly AirdElspeth (Holly Aird) and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer (Sharon Maughan), who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the on-set of World War I, and the changes it brings.
- CreatorFrank CardeaGeorge SchenckStarsBruce BoxleitnerClyde KusatsuRon O'NealPith-helmeted Buck is a Great White Hunter who here (unlike the real one from the 1940s) works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting all kinds of bad guys in pre-war Malaya.
- StarsMeg FosterJohn HeardKevin ConwayIn 17th century Massachusetts, a married woman (whose husband has been absent for years and his whereabouts unknown) has an affair resulting in a child out of wedlock. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up.
- CreatorJack YabsleyStarsClaire LoveringDanielle WalkerEddie PerfectIt's 1853, and two ratbag sisters from Sydney travel to the Australian Gold Rush in search of their own treasure: newly rich idiots.
- StarsKabir BediMandala TaydeMathieu CarrièreSandokan is called by his friend Yáñez, now attached to the maharani Surama, to help them against her cousin Raska treacherous plans. Journalist lady Dora and photographer Alfred, on their side, pursue the famous rebel pirate to get an interview. They will go together through danger and adventure.
- StarsAnthony PerkinsPatrick MacneeSamantha EggarIn 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
- StarsAndrew CrawfordTim GoodmanKenneth IvesThree trappers protect a British colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.
- StarsNicol WilliamsonJanet SuzmanIan RichardsonThe Story of the last viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten
- StarsColm MeaneyAoife McMahonDeborah PollittThis film follows a courageous woman's journey from servitude in England to the harsh life of Outport Newfoundland. Along the way she endures many hardships, including attempted rape and being abandoned by the father of her child.
- StarsMartin ShawFrances BarberNeil PearsonThe story of the British 19th-century businessman who became the wealthiest man in the Western world and founded the nation Rhodesia.
- StarsCatherine SénartPascale BussièresPierre CurziNous sommes en 1763. Au terme d'une longue lutte, le roi Louis XV abandonne la Nouvelle-France aux mains des Britanniques par le biais du Traité de Paris. Marguerite Volant, vingt ans, fille du seigneur Claude Volant, voit sa vie complètement bouleversée par ce changement de régime. Condamnée à l'exil à la suite d'une tentative de meurtre, elle réussira à s'évader grâce au capitaine anglais James Chase, qui voue à Marguerite un amour secret. Dans la plus pure tradition des grands romans d'époque, cette série remonte le cours du temps pour nous faire découvrir les splendeurs et misères de la noblesse canadienne du XVIIIe siècle.
- StarsMylène JampanoïPascal DemolonRémi BichetA young noblewoman in 18th century France is falsely convicted for treason and exiled to India. Using her whit and her body, she avoids going under despite numerous threats.
- StarsTerence McKennaRaoul Max TrujilloNigel BennettA docudrama covering events from 1812 to 1815, plus the recent repatriation of remains from Fort Erie to the United States.
- CreatorMark LeganPhoef SuttonStarsTim DuttonKirsten NelsonJim RashA comedic view of the settling of America by the Puritans.
- StarsJuliet JordanHarold HopkinsBrenton WhittleThe lavish, passionate story of a beautiful convict girl, Sara Dane who is transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit. She struggle for freedom and independence against almost impossible odds.
- StarsRebecca RiggHenk JohannesAlfred BellThis two episode TV Mini Series is based on the story of Emma Eliza Coe, who in the second half of the nineteenth century she was known as the "Queen of the South Seas". Being the daughter of Samoan princess and Jonas Coe, the first American consul in Samoa, she inherited a large fortune. She maintained intimate relationships with key personalities Europe and America. Despite the "wild" character she could to win over people, showing great talent and practical skills. The story of Emma takes place in the wild and primitive New Guinea, in San Francisco in 1860, in the White House, in the palace of the Emperor Wilhelm in Berlin and in the luxurious Monte Carlo. Fascinating adventure, wild passions, lust for power, political intrigues, but also love.
- CreatorRichard CarpenterSidney ColePaul KnightStarsOliver TobiasMarshall NapierPeter HambletonJack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure...Oliver Tobias (Arthur of the Britons) plays Jack Vincent in this popular sequel to Smuggler. Filmed on location in New Zealand, Adventurer features breathtaking natural scenery, highly authentic sets and thrilling scenes and scripts from award-winning creator Richard Carpenter (Catweazle, Robin of Sherwood). This complete series was originally screened in 1987.