(Realscreen) — Toronto headquartered Cream Productions (ID’s Fear Thy Neighbor, PBS’s The Dictator’s Playbook) is at work on a historical drama-doc about the warring factions in feudal Japan vying for power, and the warlords who led them.

The Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan has been commissioned for Netflix and Blue Ant Media’s Smithsonian Canada channel, and Simon George (History’s Barbarians Rising, Nat Geo’s Origins) has signed on as showrunner...