Broken TrailMiniseries
TV-14
Set in 1898, Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Ritter and Harte's attempts to care for the girls are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd of horses while avoiding a group of bitter rivals intent on kidnapping the girls for their own purposes.
Where to Watch Broken Trail • Miniseries
2 Episodes
- Part 1
E1Part 1Prentice Ritter recruits his estranged nephew Tom Harte to help him move five hundred horses from Oregon to Wyoming. Along the way, they encounter a man transporting five Chinese girls headed for a life of servitude. Soon, Print and Tom find themselves the guardians of the five girls as they learn to live with them while on the trail.
- Mister ArnApril 9, 2026“Broken Trail” is a Western built on a tension that never resolves: the nobility men are capable of, and the cruelty they often choose instead. Those two forces run side by side the entire film. Some characters carry themselves with a kind of quiet heroism, while others operate without conscience, driven only by money and self-interest. In between are the victims with no control over their fate, treated as property rather than human beings. That part is hard to watch, true to the time, but still uncomfortable. What works is the slow, deliberate pacing, strong character development, and beautiful scenery. By the end, even the possibility of the bad men catching up carries real tension. You don’t just watch it, you feel it.
