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After Queen Yao Moxin is killed in a palace conspiracy, her soul transfers into her younger sister Yao Mowan. Surviving an attack and losing her memories, she slowly recovers her past and sets out to exact revenge—taking down her enemies one by one within the treacherous royal court.
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
Intelligence legend Major Maxim Shekhovtsov arrives in Syria to find the dead gunner Alexander. Taking with him a young sniper from the special forces, he goes deep into enemy territory. On a dangerous journey, they will face not only terrorist ambushes and fierce battles, but also personal irreconcilable differences.
The Great Patriotic War, winter 1941. Food supplies ran out and supplies were blocked. Besieged Leningrad was dying of hunger: 125 grams of bread per day were given to employees, dependents and children. It was then that a gang appeared in the city, engaged in fraud and robbery. The criminals were mainly engaged in forgery of food cards. The name of their gang, ZIG ZAG, stood for "Defenders of German Interests —The Banner of Adolf Hitler."
Zhan Meng-bai's father is assassinated by a mysterious archer, and his love interest is killed by the same assassin. Determined to avenge them both and discover the archer's secret, Meng-bai meets his supposedly deceased mother and many other renowned martial artists. Meanwhile, he falls in love with the daughter of the leader of the Emperor's Valley. Eventually, Meng-bai learns the identity of the archer and learns that the archer intends to die in battle with him.
During the beginning of year 1945 in the Northeast region, Lu Yinghao returns from military school in the Soviet Union for his father's birthday celebrations at An Tai Hospital. He arrives just in time to witness the atrocities committed by the Japanese army as they slaughter innocents and takeover the hospital. Lu Yinghao plots revenge and crosses paths with Li Ruxue, a female warrior on a mission. Along the way, a bandit named Tong Xiaofeng falls in love at first sight with Lu Yinghao and steals important documents from him. Lu Yinghao strives to retrieve the documents but gets coerced into marrying Xiaofeng. Despite the obstacles, he continues on a path of being to be a hero of the people.
Vladimir Pozner interviews politicians and people of culture, science and sport.
After her parents are both killed Lu Ya Meng becomes a vigilante and goes on a two-women killing spree with her best friend. She eventually realizes that her personal vendetta is misguided, and is converted by Luo Shao Qing, a fellow physician, to work as a communist agent.
On October 6th 1973, the Middle East was shaken by the biggest war it had ever seen. A war that should have been the last one, and that forever changed the region.
Chanakya is a 47-part epic Indian television historical drama. The series is a fictionalized account of the life and times of 4th century BCE Indian economist, strategist and political theorist Chanakya and is based on events occurring between 340 BCE and 321/20 BCE, starting with Chanakya's boyhood and culminating in the coronation of Chandragupta Maurya.
As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Vidago Palace has the background of the year 1936 and tells us a love story between two young people from different classes, ready to face all obstacles.
In the fall of 2014, a young Russian journalist Alexei Suvorov, who dreams of money and fame, travels to Donbass as part of a humanitarian mission to interview the famous battalion commander Lesentsov, who is fighting on the side of the militia. He intends to sell the collected material to a German publication, with which he cooperates in parallel and where he plans to get a permanent job. During the journey, Suvorov encounters numerous obstacles that always distance him from his intended goal. As a result, he is forced to act rashly, risk his life and make mistakes. His fellow travelers are people with different destinies and attitudes to what is happening.
On 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland, after which a regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to the new Warsaw Ghetto. As in all the ghettos, a Judenrat was appointed and was responsible for the administration of the ghetto. The miniseries tells the moral dilemmas faced by Adam Czerniaków, head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto, who had to carry out orders of the German authorities, including sending Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.
A man suddenly goes up in flames. Suicide, assassination? - The police are faced with a mystery. Louise, an intern at the local newspaper, senses a big story behind this. In order to get information, she enters into a relationship with policeman Tom...
The drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune.
Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.
The second half of the 16th century, the time of Ivan the Terrible's reign. The story of Yermak Timofeyevich, whose campaign beyond the Urals served to annex the Siberian lands to the Moscow kingdom.
In 2025 it will be 80 years since the end of World War II. What was it like to live in Sweden during the war? How were people affected by everything that happened so close to home? SVT has asked the Swedish people to send in their memories: letters, films, photographs and diaries and several thousand responses were received from all over the country.
A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture scroll depicting various human characters, breathtaking battles and political struggles from the rise to fall of the Heike clan.
The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration.
Tutur Tinular is an Indonesian historical-drama TV series, produced by Genta Buana Pitaloka (now Genta Buana Paramita. It was first aired on ANTV in October 25,1997 (Season 1) and Indosiar in 1999 (Season 2).
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, under the call of Tan Kah Kee, the leader of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, the overseas Chinese formed a "Southern Overseas Chinese Technician Team" to work as drivers and maintenance workers on the Myanmar-Burma Highway to join the anti-Japanese national salvation movement.
Liquidation is a highly popular Russian television series, which parallels the famous The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed with notable ethical shift. In the "Meeting Place", chief of criminal investigations Gleb Zheglov had a modus operandi "Thief must go to prison, no matter how I put him there". In Liquidation, chief of criminal investigations David Gotsman's motto has changed to "Thief must go to prison, but lawfully so". The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Vladimir Mashkov and Konstantin Lavronenko. Sergei Makovetsky had to replace Andrey Krasko, who died of heart attack during the filming.
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
After his father's assassination by the Japanese, Zhong Liang becomes a revolutionary courier, risking his life to deliver vital information. Despite facing numerous challenges and losses, he remains dedicated to the cause and works alongside fellow agents to fight for the revolution.
Follow three friends through their many years of intensive training to become fighter pilots with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and as they graduate and carry out a dangerous mission in the Middle East.
Sabaton History informs you of the historical background behind all Sabaton songs. Pär and Joakim from Sabaton and historian Indy Neidell from TimeGhost/World War Two will take you on an awesome adventure through the history, the creative process and untold stories behind the Sabaton songs.
During the reign of King Ekkathat in the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Mang Mao was the daughter of Ming, a rich man who was the owner of a paper factory. Mang Mao was also famous in her own right for being mischievous considering she escaped arranged dates many times. One time, she ran from an arranged date again and coincidentally met Sri Khan Thin. He didn't like her mischievousness. Mang Mao hated the way Sri Khan Thin tried to admonish her, so she often created chaos around him without knowing he was actually Khan Thong, the son of Suea Khun Thong who was a notorious dead bandit. Khan Thong disguised himself as a eunuch in the Royal Palace in order to investigate his parents' death.
Roberta Ballesteros, a graduated officer with the highest honors who joins an elite platoon in the Mexican Navy. Her arrival comes after a tragedy in the team, forcing her to prove her ability and earn the respect of her teammates in a predominantly male environment.
Nikolay Morozov has been both a revolutionary and a terrorist in his long life. Sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour, he spent 30 years in a tsarist prison. His hair had long turned grey by the time the Second World War broke out, but when he realised his country needed him he volunteered for the army. Nikolay was 87 at the time.
Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.
As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.