A mother and son fleeing from their past form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty in the American West.
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A mother and son fleeing from their past form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty in the American West.
In 1850s Washington, two families led by powerful matriarchs — one wealthy, one poor but deeply loyal — battle for supremacy on the lawless frontier.
Passions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love.
Greed for power, betrayal and the dream of quick wealth: An oil boom breaks out in the Lüneburg Heath around 1900, transforming an entire region into a German „Wild West“. This series tells of this time, of the destructive power of boundless selfishness, but also of the courage to rebel against injustice. Lüneburg Heath around 1900: The young farmer's daughter Johanna works as a maid to support her family. No one suspects that there is a treasure lurking beneath her family's fields – petroleum. Only Richard, the son of the neighboring farmer Pape, knows about it and dreams of a future together with Johanna. Their forbidden love is put to the test when the unscrupulous oil trader Mr. Robertson appears and a fierce battle for power and wealth begins.
The Hamilton family faces financial struggles and staffing shortages on Hamilton Ranch. Pastor James and Janet return to help the family, encountering a generational feud between the family owners. James starts a cowboy church on the farm, where faith, family, and ranch life are intertwined, despite the lack of worship spaces on the vast farmland.
Maria de Déa, Lampião's companion and first woman in the Cangaço, is a fearless young woman who dares to have a voice in a group of outlaws. In a life of escapes and armed disputes, Maria faces a pregnancy and is subdued to the harshest law of the Cangaço: handing over her baby to be raised by someone else. She begins to live between life in the group and the hopeless desire to raise her daughter.
Hardly any piece of clothing embodies freedom, pragmatism and individuality as much as the Bluejeans. It is considered a symbol of the "American Dream" and is carried from arm to rich by almost every person. Despite their popularity, very few know the history of their invention. Around 1850, the German-Jewish peddler son Levi Strauss emigrated to America with his sister due to lack of prospects and anti-Semitism in the old Franconian homeland. His brothers are already doing a dry goods store there. When the big gold rush breaks out, Levi continues to San Fransicso, where he opens a textile goods business under his own name. The demand from the gold-diggers for hard-wearing pants is high. So the bustling businessman teams up with the ingenious Latvian tailor Jacob Davis, who came up with the idea of strengthening the seams of the pants with rivets. But a protection money patron dominates the port city and makes life difficult for them. And there are also difficulties with the patent.
HEATHENS is an action dark fantasy indie animation series about demons, devotion, and an era coming to an end. As Hell rumbles with the threat of an infernal war, follow a crew of 3 ride-or-die demonic friends as they navigate the underworld - chasing meaning through a whirlwind of bounties, brawls, and high-stakes heists.