Overview

A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx.

Created by Elwood Reid

Network

• National Geographic

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  David Thewlis

  Claude Trepagny

  8 eps

• 

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Mathilde Geffard

  8 eps

• 

  Aneurin Barnard

  Hamish Goames

  8 eps

• 

  James Bloor

  Charles Duquet

  8 eps

Themes

• based on novel or book
• village
• forest
• native peoples
• north america
• 16th century
• indigenous peoples
• english settlement
• french settlement
• new france
• wendat tribe

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