Keyword: 18th century

Roots

5

2016

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An adaptation of Alex Haleys \Roots.\ Chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.

Franklin

6.8

2024

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Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklins career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.

The Cook of Castamar

7.8

2021

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Set in early-18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.

Fanny Hill

6.6

2007

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Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Daviess offer to join the London working girls with Mrs. Brown, a madam who recruits her as charmingly fresh enough to wait, in-living, on gentlemen. The first night, her room- and bed-mate Phoebe starts her sexual education, next she revels in being fitted her first-ever fancy frock. Her first client, Mr. Crofts, is neither naive nor attractive, rather a paying old rapist who isnt satisfied. Then the party scene, where men are younger and more charming. Handsome merchants son Charles Standing declares love at first sight and offers to take Fanny away. After a few heavenly days of young love, they intend to demands Sirs blessing for their marriage, but as the ogre actually was her unsatisfied customer, Charles is made to choose between her and his future and leaves for colonial India. Being destitute, Fanny accepts becoming the kept woman of Mr. H., an earls wealthy brother, in a fine London home with domestic staff, but since she wont give her heart he finally bangs her maid - Fanny seduces as revenge her footman William. Both are dismissed. Fanny goes to Mrs. Coles hat-shop, only to find its a front for an upper-class whorehouse, a place where fathers even bring their sons to shed virginity with a virgin girl, a part Fanny plays well even though it breaks young Percys heart. When she arrogantly scorns Mr. H, he has the whorehouse closed down; Fanny barely escapes, but without a dime. Alone on the street, her single act of kindness wins her a sick old rich mans favor, graduating from guest over house maid to companion and sole heir when he dies a few months later. Just then Charles returns...

Northwest Passage

6.8

1958

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Major Robert Rogers organized \Rogers Rangers\ to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explorer and Indian fighter, were Hunk Marriner, another experienced Indian fighter, and Langdon Towne, a Harvard graduate who was the map maker. The episodes told the story of their trials and tribulations searching for the Northwest Passage and their battles with both the French and Indians during this war.

Garrow's Law

8.2

2009

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Garrows Law is the true tale of William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of innocent until proved guilty at Londons Old Bailey.

The Book of Negroes

5.9

2015

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Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the eighteenth century.

Crossbones

6.4

2014

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Set during the golden age of piracy in the 1700s and centering on legendary pirate Blackbeard.

Thieves of the Wood

7

2020

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Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Belgium.

La Revolution

6.7

2020

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1787, France. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, Joseph Guillotin - the future inventor of the world famous ‘Guillotine’ - uncovers an unknown virus: the Blue Blood. The disease quickly spreads amongst the French aristocracy, driving them to murder ordinary people and soon leads to a rebellion.

Sons of Liberty

7.6

2015

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A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.

Catherine the Great

5

2019

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The life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.

Untold Scandal

6.6

2003

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In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husbands coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

History of the World: Part I

7.2

1981

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Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Chevalier

4.4

2022

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Based on factual story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African enslaved and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.

The Mission

7.7

1986

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Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

5.9

2016

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A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption.

Hostile Territory

4.3

2022

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In post-civil war America, when a Union soldier is presumed dead, his children are mistakenly sent away on the orphan train. This is a wild-west story of people uniting for the greater good, and children forced to grow up quickly.

Hornblower: Mutiny

8.4

2001

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Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny.

Love, Courage and the Battle of Bushy Run

5.8

2024

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Colonel Henry Bouquet, with a ragtag group of British soldiers, Scottish Highlanders and American volunteers, was tasked with trying to save the hundreds of men, women and children facing certain death - or worse - in Fort Pitt.

Casanova

6.5

2005

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The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love.

Marie Antoinette

7.3

1938

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The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Rob Roy

6.9

1995

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In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite.

Shaolin Martial Arts

6.8

1974

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When the ruling dynasty in China sends soldiers to destroy the Shaolin Temple, students use their martial arts to defend the school.