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The Borgias

Neil Jordan - Showtime Entertainment
Format: DVD

Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two sons Cesare and Juan, and his daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
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Da Vinci's Demons: Season 1

~ Tom Riley - Tonto Films and Television
Format: DVD video

In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing,...
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Deadwood: Season 1

David Milch - HBO Video
Format: DVD video

Set in 1876 in the Black Hills of South Dakota after the richest gold strike in American history has drawn a throng of misfits to an outlaw settlement where everyone has a price. Tells the story of the settlers, who range from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild...
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King Arthur

Antoine Fuqua - Touchstone Home Entertainment
Format: DVD video

A reluctant leader, Arthur wishes only to leave Britain and return to the peace and stability of Rome. Before he can, one final mission leads him and his Knights of the Round Table - Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Tristan, and Gawain - to the conclusion that when Rome is gone, Britain will need...
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The Last Kingdom

Alexander Dreymon - BBC Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Crazed Vikings and defiant Saxons are about to clash--with spectacular results. The Golden Globe(r) and Emmy(r) award-winning producers of Downton Abbey present a riveting drama featuring heroic deeds and epic battles that shaped course of history. Travel to the ninth-century to the land...
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Macbeth

Michael Fassbender - ANCHOR BAY
Format: Book

 
A thrilling interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most famous and compelling characters, Macbeth is a dramatic re-imagining of the realities of war-torn times and a tale of all-consuming passion and ambition.
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Marco Polo: Season 1

Joan Chen - ANCHOR BAY
Format: DVD

In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.
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The Musketeers

Luke Pasqualino - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD video

On the streets of seventeenth century Paris, law and order is an idea more than a reality. In addition to being King Louis XIII's personal bodyguards, Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and their new friend D'Artagnan, stand resolutely for social justice, honor, valor, love, and for the thrill of it all....
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Outlander: Season One - Volume One

Caitriona Balfe - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

British combat nurse Claire Randall is reunited with her husband after returning from the battlefields of World War II. While on their second honeymoon, she walks through one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles and is suddenly transported to 1743 Scotland, torn by war and rogue...
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Penny Dreadful: Season 1

Josh Hartnett - Paramount Pictures, New York, NY
Format: DVD video

An erotically charged, profoundly unsettling new saga that completely reinvents literature's most iconic and terrifying characters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and timeless figures from Dracula join a core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a soul, even as they...
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The Pillars of the Earth

Ian McShane - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2010.
Format: DVD video

In 1120 A.D., the heir to the English throne dies when the royal ship burns at sea. The King calls on his subjects to accept his daughter Maud as ruler until her son comes of age, but the church backs his nephew Stephen. Squire Bartholomew pledges his loyalty to Maud and is thrown in jail,...
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Poldark the complete first season

- PBS (DIRECT)
Format: Book

Product Description It s 1783, and Ross Poldark has returned home from the American Revolutionary War to find England in the grip of recession and his beloved Cornwall on its knees. His father is dead, his family s land and copper mines are in ruins, and his childhood sweetheart is about...
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Pompeii

~ Kit Harington - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD video

"Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington) , a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning) , a wealthy merchant's daughter who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman...
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Season 1

- Starz / Anchor Bay
Format: DVD

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena, where blood and death are primetime entertainment. But not all battles are fought upon the sands. Treachery, corruption, and the allure of sensual pleasure will constantly test Spartacus....
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Vikings: Season One

~ Vikings - 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

The first season of VIKINGS follows the warrior Ragnar as he explores distant and dangerous lands while hoping to pursue his destiny as a Viking chieftan, despite the forces at home who are determined to conspire against him.
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The White Queen: Season One

~ Max Irons - Anchor Bay Entertainment
Format: DVD video

A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort...
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300

Gerard Butler - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

 
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian...
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300: Rise of an Empire

Eva Green - Warner Home Video
Format: Book

Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. He's pitted against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemesia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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