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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.
2) Roots
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boys' abduction to America and continues throughout the generations that follow.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novels by John Galsworthy, The saga is an epic and highly praised series spanning three generations of the powerful Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century. Beneath the family's imposing veneer lies a festering core of unhappy and brutal relationships.
7) Beulah land
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This mini-series centers around the Kendrick family, owners of Beulah Land, and those connected to the plantation by history and fate. It follows Beulah Land from its height of spendor through its destruction in the Civil War and to its rebuilding.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As they pose for the cover of a glossy magazine, the aristocratic Aird family appears to have the perfect life. But beneath the breeding lie dark secrets that will soon jeopardize their storybook world. Edmund Aird is the lord of Balnaird House, one of the most splendid estates in the Scottish Highlands. He and his American-born wife, Virginia, seem to have everything: wealth, beautiful children, and a thriving family business.
12) Under capricorn
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In 1831, young Irishman Charles Adare arrives in New South Wales, Australia, eager to make his fortune, and make it fast. But what he finds are secrets that won't stay buried. Adare is swept into the private world of wealthy land baron Samson Flusky and his mentally unbalanced wife, Lady Henrietta. As Adare attempts to help this haunted woman, greed, jealousy, and a secret passion threaten to destroy them both.
14) Roots
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
15) Cloudstreet
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set around Perth from 1943-63, two families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in this acclaimed Australian miniseries. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
When the Morels' seventeen-year-old daughter Lea fails to return home after a night out celebrating her birthday, the family is unexpectedly thrown into their worst nightmare. Mother Florence tries to remain strong for her other children, while father Julien begins an investigation of his own.
19) After the deluge
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives of the four men from the Kirby family: as Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age. All three of these men must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, who suffers from Alzheimer's, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love. Through these four...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Tortured by his past and pained by an uncertain future, Tomoya drifts through life with an almost overwhelming anger and emptiness. But when he meets Nagisa, his world seems to change. Drawn in by her gentle, lonely spirit, he begins to experience the joy life can bring. But as he discovers the reason for his newfound friend's loneliness, Tomoya also finds that life can be frighteningly fragile."--Container.
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