Centennial

TV-PG

12 Episodes

Drama, Western1978-1979

Centennial - a 12-episode television miniseries - is based on the best-selling historical novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Michener. At the time, the Centennial production was the most ambitious miniseries project ever attempted: nearly 100 speaking parts, four directors and five cinematographers, and multiple shooting locations across the USA combined to produce the massive 22-hour tale. Epic in its scope, Centennial portrays the development of the American western frontier from the late 18th century through the late 20th century, as seen through the eyes of families who eventually establish a town on the windswept plains of eastern Colorado. An all-star cast of television favorites populates this engrossing story....

Starring Richard Crenna, Dennis Weaver, Brian Keith

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Centennial

TV-PG

12 Episodes

Drama, Western1978-1979

Starring Richard Crenna, Dennis Weaver, Brian Keith

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Download to watch offline

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12 Episodes

Part 1. A roguish French-Canadian trapper becomes partners with a fugitive Scotsman on the late 18th century American frontier.

Part 2: 1809-1830. Pasquinel prospects for gold, raises two sons by his Arapaho wife, then returns to St. Louis for a bittersweet reunion with his left-behind wife.

Part 3: 1845. A wagon train headed west from St. Louis includes a Mennonite outcast and his wife, an Army captain and a grizzled frontier guide.

Part 4: 1846-1860. Broken treaties imperil relations between the Native Americans, settlers and the US Army.

Part 5. A fanatical Army colonel orders a massacre of unarmed native Americans, precipitating a wave of revenge and recriminations.

Part 6. A trail boss recruits a motley crew of greenhorns and old hands to herd 3000 longhorns from Texas to Colorado.

Part 7: 1876. The town of Centennial, Colorado is born as a range war threatens to erupt between independent farmers and the English owners of the Venneford Ranch.

Part 8. The circus comes to Centennial. Levi Zendt returns east to visit his Mennonite family. Oliver Seccombe worries that an accountant will disapprove of his methods to keep the ranch solvent.

Part 9. The loss of most of the Venneford herd in a blizzard prompts Oliver Seccombe to relinquish his duties. A pair of con artists arouse the suspicion of the sheriff when they swindle the...

Part 10. Jim Lloyd proposes to Charlotte. Sheriff Dumire remains bent on proving that the Wendells are murderers. An outlaw gang appears, ready to avenge the deaths of two members years earlier.

Part 11. Centennial attracts homesteaders in the 1920s, but their promised land is ravaged by drought and dust storms, and their future threatened by the onset of the Depression.