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Two strangers are drawn together in a violent landscape built on dreams and blood.

America, 1890 - two strangers are drawn together in a violent landscape built on dreams and blood. An epic tale of love, revenge and power starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer.

Series 1

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Emily Blunt

Chaske Spencer

Tom Hughes

Stephen Rea

Gary Farmer

Hugo Blick

Colin Wratten

Greg Brenman

Wolf Gait Productions

The English: Series 1: Path of the Dead

Path of the Dead

BBC Two - The English, Series 1, Path of the Dead

Eli and Cornelia find an orphaned baby and child, which forces them to make a choice.

Eli and Cornelia are forced to make a choice when they find an orphaned baby and child. Meanwhile, in Powder River, an English farmer discovers the slaughter of his pregnant cattle.

In the Powder River region of Wyoming, cattle baron and English gentleman Thomas Trafford, despite being the first European to enter the region, is struggling to maintain his empire against the homesteader 'invasion'. He is alerted to a huge and mysterious loss: the horrific slaughter of all his pregnant cattle, for which he holds the homesteaders responsible.

Meanwhile, on their journey north, Eli and Cornelia encounter a victim of Captain Clegg’s bushwhackers and an orphaned baby.

The English: Series 1

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