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, second half of 1800. Sandokan is a young prince who as a child lost his kingdom due to the English invasion. He is now the captain of a band of pirates that constantly attacks the British army.
- StarsBhanu UdayAtul SrivastavaRadhika ApteThe 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 EnglishEighteen-year-old Mary Mulvane gets convicted for trying to get back her father's cow. She has to endure the travel in a prison ship from Ireland and living the life of a convict in Australia.
- 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