The Conqueror's Story is a Hong Kong television series based on the events in the Chu–Han Contention period of Chinese history. It was first broadcast in 2004 in Hong Kong on TVB Jade.
Social & External
The people behind it
Adam Cheng Siu-Chow
刘邦 Lau Bong
Kwong Wa
项羽 Hong Yu
Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee
吕雉 Lui Chi
Melissa Ng Mei-Heng
虞姬 Consort Yu
Wayne Lai Yiu-Cheung
韩信 Hon Sun
Cerina da Graça
戚夫人
Ram Chiang Chi-Kwong
张良 Cheung Leung
Law Lok-Lam
范增 Fan Tsang
Henry Lo
萧何 Siu Ho
Ricky Wong Chun-Tong
英布 Ying Bo
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
In a time of war, poisoned Prince Zhao He is saved by Yi Jiu, a mysterious healer secretly tied to the fallen Moon Clan. As they uncover the truth behind the clan’s massacre, Zhao He and his ally Yun Yao fight to expose the conspiracy and restore peace to the realm.
Ye Qinglan, the daughter of a treasonous official who becomes enslaved after her family's downfall, encounters Shen Que, a young lord investigating corruption in secret. Initially wary of each other, they join forces to combat injustice and restore order to the court.
In the Netherworld, a carefree soul named Tong Feng is unexpectedly ordered to finish her cultivation within three months and reincarnate. Her journey across ancient, republican, and modern eras not only tests her fate but also reveals a long-buried connection with the realm’s ruler, Xuan Pei.
Mary isn't your typical period drama heroine. She is awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts, a terrible singer, overlooked by her mother and seemingly destined to an empty dance card for the rest of her life… until Mary takes matters into her own hands.
The story chronicles Qin's unification of China through the construction of the Zhengguo Canal, tracing the fractured bond between childhood friends Emperor Ying Zheng and Chancellor Changping Jun—whose ideological and ancestral divides ignite a fatal clash between Qin and Chu—while Zheng, the commoner engineer, embodies the people's wisdom that truly shapes history.
Cui Chen, the talented senior disciple of the Qingyuan Sect, and his crafty junior sister Zhao Tantan as they embark on a quest to find the "Seven-Leaf Lotus." Along the way, they grow together and find love, joining hands to revive their sect.
Once a feared outlaw leader, Jiang Hu seeks a quiet life after a tragic failure leads to a loyal general’s downfall. But a run-in with a ruthless enemy pulls him back into danger. Joined by an old ally and a rescued orphan girl, he sets out to uncover the truth and fight for justice in a corrupt martial world.
After a mystical reversal turns the divine stone spirit Shangguan Ziyan into a man, he joins the disciplined Daoist Yuan Chu in the Yuan Zhen Sect. Appointed as demon hunters, the two embark on a mission to seal monsters and restore the heavens—only to uncover each other’s hidden secrets along the way.
Bai Xiangyi, a talented actress, is unexpectedly transported to an ancient world, becoming the concubine of Emperor Xuan Cheng with a system that allows her to romance anyone but the emperor. After meeting him disguised as a musician during a visit to a brothel, they form a friendship outside the palace. However, a glitch causes the emperor from her former life to seal away all memories of her in a river lantern, sending her back to the modern world. Meanwhile, Lu Xun, seeking revenge, assumes the identity of Chu Hang and forces Bai Xiangyi into a marriage agreement, only to unexpectedly fall for her as they navigate their complicated relationship.
Xie Tianxing, a chivalrous thief from a fallen noble family, unexpectedly finds himself thrust into a new life when he takes on a mission that leads to him assuming the identity of a wealthy merchant. As he navigates his sudden transformation, he discovers that beneath his newfound fortune, danger and deception lurk at every turn.
Modern woman Ma Qianqiu time-travels into a princess's body and pretends to be lovers with General Qin Che amid deadly power struggles. As secrets unravel and love grows, Ma Qianqiu must choose between going home or staying for him.
Reborn, Shen Wantang enters Prince Ning’s household, exposing the schemes of the prince’s favored concubine. When Xiao Qingyuan repents and seeks reconciliation, she rejects him—her aim is not love, but the title of Princess Consort. Meanwhile, her sister Shen Mingxuan faces a harsh mother-in-law and a misogynistic husband in her attempt to marry the scholar from their past life.
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
Belgravia, 1871. When Lord Frederick Trenchard meets Clara Dunn, their courtship is full of passion. But after they marry, the scandalous world of high society and a long-buried family secret threaten to unravel their happiness.
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that.
Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
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.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents in an ultra-secret facility on the shores of Lake Ontario. These agents parachute behind enemy lines, where they're fair game for torture and execution. From elegant hotels to hellholes in the field, it's one risky operation after another, masterminded by the brains of Camp X.
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.