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Black Sails
TV-MA | Drama, Action & Adventure | 4 seasons, 38 episodes | Avg. episode: 55 minutes - The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
The Terror
TV-14 | Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 2 seasons, 20 episodes | Avg. episode: 45 minutes - A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.
Das Boot
TV-MA | War & Politics, Drama | 4 seasons, 32 episodes | Avg. episode: 58 minutes - An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
The North Water
TV-MA | Drama, Mystery | 1 season, 5 episodes | Avg. episode: 57 minutes - Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
The Last Ship
TV-14 | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 5 seasons, 56 episodes | Avg. episode: 41 minutes - Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
To the Ends of the Earth
TV-PG | Drama | 1 season, 3 episodes | Avg. episode: 1 hour 29 minutes - From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
Hornblower
Drama, War & Politics, Action & Adventure | 3 seasons, 8 episodes | Avg. episode: 2 hours - Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.