Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the lives of commoners and the reviled merchant class of the Tokugawa period. It documents the rise and fall of the merchant city of Sakai, as seen by its most famous resident, the semilegendary Luzon.
Ancient Māori heroes of yesteryear, re-discovered, re-examined and re-imagined.
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family...
A seven-part mini-series produced in England about Vienna's Strauss family in the 19th-century. Memb...
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite ...
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises t...
Set amid the fascinating setting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this drama follows the lives of...
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dra...
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas,...
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who set...
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most...
William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their...
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of...
In 1918, at the end of World War I, young Emil Dreesen returns from the battlefield with the intenti...
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley E...
Sandburg's Lincoln is a six-part mini-series starring Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth...
At the height of the Cold War, newly formed NASA selects seven of the military’s best test pilots to...
Set during the turbulent time of the fall of Goryeo and the founding of Joseon, two former friends f...
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanni...