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HBO Max Amazon Channel
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83
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cc age 18+

Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
85
8.7
/114982/
85
/3516/
80
/797/
93
/49/
94
73
/19/

Oz (1997)
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
79
8.2
/143679/
80
/8323/
76
/1520/
4.2
/100026/
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/119/
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85
/35/
cc age 17+

Watchmen (2019)
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
poster
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75
8.4
/19898/
80
/388/
74
/237/
4.1
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77
/35/
67

Roots (1977)
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
poster
73
44
7.8
/2979/
66
/40/
75
/32/
3.6
/476/

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.
poster
74
31
8.1
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/22/
80
/20/
3.6
/251/

Chiefs (1983)
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?
poster
70
30
7.6
/1856/
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/30/
70
/22/
3.4
/292/

Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in.
poster
71
25
7.4
/993/
65
/43/
75
/21/

Once Upon a Time... The Americas (1992)
"Once upon a time ... the Americas" tells us the story of this vast continent, from the very first inhabitants to the present day, including the Aztecs and the Incas, the conquistadors, the war of independence or the gold Rush. Through our usual sympathetic heroes (Maestro, Pierrot, Petit Gros, le Teigneux, le Nabot, etc.), we travel from time to time, always with the aim of teaching us something.
poster
75
17
8.4
/1269/
67
/14/
74
/7/

Any Day Now (1998)
Any Day Now is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint as best friends of different races who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. In every episode, contemporary storylines are interwoven with a storyline from their shared past.
poster
69
12
7.6
/353/
65
/12/
66
/13/

Ku Klux Klan: An American Story (2020)
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism in the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights in the sixties, the rise of the far-right in the early 21st century; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.
poster
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8.3
/1787/
77
/12/
4.0
/1065/

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.
poster
Hulu
67
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7.1
/510/
61
/26/
72
/5/

Southern Gothic (2020)
The South can be as shadowy as the muddy waters that run through it, especially when it comes to crime. This true crime docuseries is an exploration of the duplicitous characters, unique settings and boundless mysteries of the American South.
poster
AMC+
62
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6.8
/150/
56
/3/

Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2024)
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
poster
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5.5
/13/
10
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TMDb

The Struggle for Democracy (1989)
Journalist Patrick Watson hosts a documentary series about democracy, its history and how people in various nations and cultures deal with the concept and practice. To do so, the series is divided up into episodes exploring various topics concerning it, like its origin in Ancient Athens, the American development and various elements of it like the freedom of speech, minority rights and economic justice.
poster
67
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7.6
/919/
66
/16/
60
/2/
3.4
/264/

Separate but Equal (1991)
A two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, "Brown vs. Board of Education."
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6.6
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10
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Coast to Coast USA: Biker-Jens (1999)
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poster
75
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8.4
/424/
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/9/
74
/5/
cc age 15+

John Safran vs God (2004)
John Safran vs God is an eight-part television documentary series by John Safran which was broadcast on SBS TV of Australia in 2004. It has been described in a media release as "John Safran's most audacious project yet". It had a much more serious tone than Safran's previous work Music Jamboree. The show was released by Ghost of Your Ex-Boyfriend Productions and SBS Independent, was co-written with Mark O'Toole, directed by Craig Melville, and produced by Selin Yaman. The series won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Comedy Series. The show's opening theme is Hate Priest by the band Mozart on Crack. The opening sequence features John in a black suit breaking out of a patch of black scorched earth with his bare hands during a thunderstorm. The words "when the thousand years are over Satan will be released from his prison" are spoken in a low pseudo-ominous voice.


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