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DramaGB
TV-14
2018
Jamestown

Episode 1

In the 17th century, on the edge of the untamed Virginian wilderness, sits the English colony. The settlement barely survived its first decade but is on the brink of change with the arrival of a new governor and 90 so-called "maids to make brides."

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Episode 1

Season 1 Episode 1 | 50m 53s | CC

In 1619, a new governor arrives in Virginia bearing revolutionary plans for the colony. With him arrive a group of women, destined to marry the beleaguered men. Among them are the sophisticated courtier Jocelyn Woodbryg, farm girl Alice Kett and streetwise Verity Bridges. Faced with a hazardous wilderness and physical hardship, they see the prospect of freedom and adventure.

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