Television series set in the 1890s

Roots: The Next Generations

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.8

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, Lauderdal...

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Tipping the Velvet

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the 1890s. Nan Astley embarks on a voyage of emotional and sexua...

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The Alienist

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.7

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murd...

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The American West

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.3

From the Executive Producer Robert Redford, THE AMERICAN WEST tells the story of the aftermath of the CIVIL WAR and how the United States transformed into the “land of opportunity" spanning the years...

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Rough Riders

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Rough Riders is a 1997 television miniseries directed and co-written by John Milius about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment. The series prominently shows the bravery of the voluntee...

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Houdini

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Harry Houdini emerges as America's first bonafide world-renowned superstar.

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The Living and the Dead

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange event...

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Streets of Laredo

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with...

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The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.9

An intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.

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