As you watch Netflix's "American Primeval," learn more about a key moment in the first episode: the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...

Yes, and no. American Primeval is a work of historic fiction. Meaning, Sara and Isaac’s story is made up, as is the story of ...

American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar.

While Brigham Young (Kim Coates) succeeds in burning down Jim Bridger’s (Shea Whigham) beloved fort, Bridger survives the ...

Producers openly admit the six-part series dropping Thursday is highly fictionalized. It centers around 1857 involving the ...

American Primeval has just landed on Netflix and the Western series is a fictional story set in 1857, but it is based on real ...

American Primeval is a sprawling, epic TV series, one that feels both deeply indebted to the Westerns of old and a purposeful rebuke of them. Present still are the genre’s John Ford-esque cloudless ...

Netflix's new limited series American Primeval, which stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Kim Coates and Robert Duvall, ...

While the story that unfolds on-screen took place in the 19th century Utah Territory – now Utah state – the show was filmed ...

With a historical setting and real-life inspiration, it’s fair for Netflix viewers to ask: is American Primeval based on a true story?

Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were ...