BBC America, BBC Two (2015)
The Last Kingdom depicts the struggle between the Saxons and Viking warlords.
Based on Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling series of “Saxon stories”, the drama is set in England during the reign of King Alfred, when “the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Vikings and the great kingdom of Wessex has been left standing alone and defiant.” Merging historical fact and fiction, The Last Kingdom’s hero is Uhtred,...
The Last Kingdom (BBC)