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1 posted on 07/27/2014 7:40:44 PM PDT by MNDude
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Alstair Cook’s “America”

also liked Shaka Zulu


80 posted on 07/27/2014 8:17:14 PM PDT by octex
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The original 6 hour series of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy based on the book by the same name by John Le Carre was extremely well done. You had the feel that the movie scenes and dialogue followed the best ever spy novel exactly.

Shogun was another excellent series. It dealt with the opening of Japan to Europeans through the eyes of a European who finds himself stranded in a fiercely feudalistic Asian culture with no comprehension of the language or customs. Like the book, I found myself transported by the series into that era in Japan and beginning to understand the culture. And it was beautifully filmed as well.

Lonesome Dove. Best ever series about Texas. Nuf said.


82 posted on 07/27/2014 8:19:45 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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I liked Klondike. It was on the Discovery Channel in 3 2-hour segments.

I liked the original V miniseries, too.

The Kennedys miniseries was surprisingly good.
84 posted on 07/27/2014 8:20:00 PM PDT by TomGuy
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My short list:

Lonesome Dove

The original, British House of Cards (Ian Richardson was magnificent).

The Maxx - an mid-90s animated miniseries that ran on, of all networks, MTV. Easily the best storyline I’ve ever seen in an animated production.


88 posted on 07/27/2014 8:22:09 PM PDT by DemforBush (Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco.)
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Shogun.


89 posted on 07/27/2014 8:22:23 PM PDT by Rodamala
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Only one mention of Rome. Hint: John Milius, the same guy that wrote and directed Red Dawn, wrote Dirty Harry, Wind and the Lion, Rough Riders, Conan the Barbarian, Jeremiah Johnson...

Rome is his work, too. You can do worse by seeing more.

90 posted on 07/27/2014 8:22:27 PM PDT by jonascord (Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
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I Claudius

Chiefs

House of Cards, (both versions)


92 posted on 07/27/2014 8:23:09 PM PDT by Gefn ("I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder ")
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Shogun, Holocaust, V.


93 posted on 07/27/2014 8:23:59 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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BTW, can’t forget “Amerika,” that is where we are headed.


94 posted on 07/27/2014 8:24:28 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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Lonesome Dove
Fresno


97 posted on 07/27/2014 8:26:15 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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Winds of War was good

also Centennial


98 posted on 07/27/2014 8:26:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Brideshead Revisited


101 posted on 07/27/2014 8:28:08 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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John Adams


102 posted on 07/27/2014 8:31:01 PM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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The Stand, It, and ‘Salem’s Lot.


106 posted on 07/27/2014 8:38:01 PM PDT by drjimmy
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Lonesome Dove


109 posted on 07/27/2014 8:43:05 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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Not going to say it was the best, but the one I really enjoyed was an Australian series, Against the Wind. About the settlement of Australia by the convict labor from Ireland, Scotland, and the cities of England.


113 posted on 07/27/2014 8:48:48 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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Holocaust


118 posted on 07/27/2014 8:53:05 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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Nominees: 1) Danger UXB, 2) Band of Brothers, 3) The Pacific, 4) I, Claudius, 5) Victory at Sea, 6) Horatio Hornblower, 7) John Adams, 8) The World at War.


121 posted on 07/27/2014 9:22:48 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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Fall of Eagles

The First Churchills

The Wilderness Years (about Churchill)

124 posted on 07/27/2014 9:30:48 PM PDT by what's up
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Jesus Of Nazareth

Band of Brothers

V

The Pacific

128 posted on 07/27/2014 9:42:04 PM PDT by Revelation Concepts
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