1923: A Yellowstone Origin Story

Director(s)Ben Richardson

Production year2023

Genre(s)Drama, Western

Approx. running minutes60m

CastHelen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Isabel May, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Ben Richardson, Taylor Sheridan, Rajeev Malhotra, Brian Tyler, Breton Vivian, Corrin Hodgson, Ben Richardson, Chad Galster, Brooke Rupe, John Papsidera, Cary White

1923: A Yellowstone Origin Story

1923: A YELLOWSTONE STORY is a US Western television series; in this episode, Elizabeth is distraught when Jack is force ...

1923: A YELLOWSTONE STORY is a US Western television series; in this episode, Elizabeth is distraught when Jack is forced to delay the wedding and the impact of the Great Depression is being felt by the town.

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

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Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is a scene of strong violence at a religious boarding school in which a teenage girl, after being hit and humiliated by a nun, is repeatedly beaten with a paddle by a priest. Other violent moments include bloody battle sequences and a man beating a man with his army helmet. Animals are shot dead after they attack humans.

injury detail

Violence is accompanied by blood spurts and bloody injury detail. After a savage beating, there is sight of a teenage girl's bruised legs and hands and blood drips on the floor from her wounds. After being mauled by an animal, a woman's fatally injured body lies on the ground.

strong violence, injury detail, discrimination, sexual assault, language

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is a close-up stabbing of an animal during an attack. A character pistol whips another, with accompanying sight of blood spurts.

language

Occasional strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'shit', 'God' and 'damn'.

discrimination

Unsympathetic characters inflict racially-aggravated violence and terror on a Native American woman as punishment for speaking her mother tongue at a boarding school. This includes whippings using a wooden stick and detainment in an outdoor cell overnight. Discrimination is not condoned by the work as a whole.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A character sexually assaults a young woman in a bathtub, however, no graphic detail is shown and another character intervenes to stop the assault. Sexual violence is not condoned by the work as a whole.

injury detail

There is a deep bloody gash across a man’s neck in the aftermath of an animal attack during a darkly lit scene. Dead bodies are shown hanging with nooses around their necks.

strong violence, bloody images, nudity

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Multiple people are hit by bullets during a shootout, resulting in spurts of blood and strong bloody aftermath detail.

nudity

A couple kiss, embrace and undress together, with dimly lit breast nudity, in a scene establishing off-screen sex.

strong violence, bloody images, discrimination, nudity

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of strong violence include repeated blows to a person's face, resulting in extensive bloody facial injuries. Milder moments include undetailed shootings and explosions on a battlefield during a flashback sequence.

discrimination

Unsympathetic characters inflict racially-aggravated violence on a Native American woman at a boarding school. This includes a prolonged sequence in which a woman repeatedly whips a restrained victim using a wooden ruler, refers to Native Americans as 'savages' and cuts the victim's hair as part of an attempt to strip them of their cultural identity. Discrimination is not condoned by the work as a whole.

injury detail

There is close-up emphasis on pools of blood on the floor and across surfaces in the aftermath of an off-screen attack. A person is shown wearing bloody bandages.

nudity

There is sexualised breast nudity during a scene in which a woman straddles a man.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A Native American student is subject to a beating by a priest, in a strong scene of violence which includes him repeatedly punching her face and stamping on her head.

injury detail

After being beaten, a young woman has a bloodied face and drooping eyelid. In another scene, two dead bodies are found, one with a knife embedded into her chest and one with a bloody face and her mouth stuffed with cloth. There are also scenes in which an unwell man coughs up blood.

strong sex, language

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is use of strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms (‘ass’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘Jesus’, ‘God’, ‘damn’).

sex

A scene of strong sex between a woman and a man features thrusting and visible breast nudity.

sexual violence

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

A villain forces one sex worker to whip another’s buttocks with a belt, making the other woman cry out in pain. The scene features female breast and buttock nudity.

sexual violence

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

An unsympathetic character forces a pair of sex workers to whip each other's buttocks using a belt, despite their verbal protests and clear distress. This scene is accompanied by female breast and buttock nudity.

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sexual violence, strong violence, sex, nudity

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Shootings and impactful beatings result in bloody detail. A man bites another's ear during a fight. In another scene, a white man runs down a young Indigenous American with a horse.

sex

It is implied a man masturbates a woman while they lie in a bath together. Other scenes establish sex between a couple.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man is raped by another man; there is brief buttock nudity after the attack is interrupted. In another scene, a woman is held captive and it is implied she is being used as a sex slave.

nudity

There is sexualised breast and buttock nudity.

strong language

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('son of a bitch', ass', 'bullshit', 'hell', 'Jesus').

moderate injury detail, threat, abusive behaviour, strong language

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

A woman is briefly stalked by a man while travelling alone in an unfamiliar country. There are also scenes of gun threat; a woman becomes distressed when having to be injected with a vaccine from a needle.

language

There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('bitch', 'shit').

injury detail

Bloody images include the carcass of a dead wolf and bodies of dead Indigenous Americans following violence.

theme

It is implied that an American border force officer has accepted sexual bribes from women who wish to gain entry to the US. A woman becomes distressed during an invasive medical examination in which she is made to strip naked in front of male doctors. A heavily pregnant woman bleeds from between her legs while waiting to be processed at border control.

strong threat, injury detail, sex, references to sexually abusive behaviour

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are bloody shootings and beatings.

threat and horror

A woman is attacked and mugged in a toilet cubicle. Other scenes of threat include those involving guns and knives.

language

There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'); milder terms include 'whore', 'hell' and 'damn'.

sex

A couple are heard having sex; it is implied they are engaging in sex involving erotic asphyxiation.

sexual violence and sexual threat

The naked body of a woman is discovered; it is implied she was being held captive and that she died as a result of being strangled with a scarf. There are also other verbal references to sexual violence.

injury detail

Gory injury detail is depicted in close-up during a medical procedure in which a doctor drills into a man's head to relieve bleeding on the brain.

sexual violence, strong violence, language

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A woman beats a man over the head after he sexually assaulted her; the attack results in visible bloody injury. Milder violence includes brief shoot-outs.

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('son of a bitch', 'whore', 'shit', 'hell', 'damn').

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man gropes a woman under her dress; it is implied that he puts his hand inside her during the assault. There are also further references to sexual violence and sexually abusive behaviour.

strong sex, sexual violence

Classified Date:

29/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A couple engage in BDSM activities in scenes which include strong sexual detail.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A woman is subjected to sexual acts while her hands and legs are tied to a bed for the sexual gratification of a man and woman. There are also references to the couple being responsible for the death of a young woman they subjected to sexually abusive acts. In another scene, a woman is groped.

sexual violence, strong sex

Classified Date:

29/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A woman is masturbated in a scene that also contains sexualised nudity. A couple relish talking about BDSM activities.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A woman is subjected to sexual and sadistic acts whilst under the controlling influence of a man and another woman. An Indigenous American woman talks about her childhood and being sexually abused by priests at a school.

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Classified Date:

04/06/2025

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

02/06/2025

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified date30/21/2023

LanguageEnglish

violence

injury detail

additional issues

Infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'son of a bitch', 'bastard', 'God' and 'hell'. Scenes include moderate, verbal sex references such as a mention of a 'whore shop'. During an argument, men call each other racial slurs such as 'paddy'. There is a scene of moderate gun threat in which a man is chased through a forest. There is sight of dead animals killed by disease and drought.

sexual violence

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

sexual violence

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

A villain forces one sex worker to whip another’s buttocks with a belt, making the other woman cry out in pain. The scene features female breast and buttock nudity.

strong sex, language

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is use of strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms (‘ass’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘Jesus’, ‘God’, ‘damn’).

sex

A scene of strong sex between a woman and a man features thrusting and visible breast nudity.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A Native American student is subject to a beating by a priest, in a strong scene of violence which includes him repeatedly punching her face and stamping on her head.

injury detail

strong violence, bloody images, nudity

Classified Date:

31/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Multiple people are hit by bullets during a shootout, resulting in spurts of blood and strong bloody aftermath detail.

nudity

A couple kiss, embrace and undress together, with dimly lit breast nudity, in a scene establishing off-screen sex.

strong violence, bloody images, discrimination, nudity

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

discrimination

injury detail

There is close-up emphasis on pools of blood on the floor and across surfaces in the aftermath of an off-screen attack. A person is shown wearing bloody bandages.

nudity

There is sexualised breast nudity during a scene in which a woman straddles a man.

strong violence, injury detail, discrimination, sexual assault, language

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is a close-up stabbing of an animal during an attack. A character pistol whips another, with accompanying sight of blood spurts.

language

Occasional strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'shit', 'God' and 'damn'.

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

There is a deep bloody gash across a man’s neck in the aftermath of an animal attack during a darkly lit scene. Dead bodies are shown hanging with nooses around their necks.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

injury detail

sexual violence, strong sex

Classified Date:

29/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A woman is masturbated in a scene that also contains sexualised nudity. A couple relish talking about BDSM activities.

sexual violence and sexual threat

strong sex, sexual violence

Classified Date:

29/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A couple engage in BDSM activities in scenes which include strong sexual detail.

sexual violence and sexual threat

strong threat, injury detail, sex, references to sexually abusive behaviour

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are bloody shootings and beatings.

threat and horror

A woman is attacked and mugged in a toilet cubicle. Other scenes of threat include those involving guns and knives.

language

There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'); milder terms include 'whore', 'hell' and 'damn'.

sex

A couple are heard having sex; it is implied they are engaging in sex involving erotic asphyxiation.

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

Gory injury detail is depicted in close-up during a medical procedure in which a doctor drills into a man's head to relieve bleeding on the brain.

moderate injury detail, threat, abusive behaviour, strong language

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

language

There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('bitch', 'shit').

injury detail

Bloody images include the carcass of a dead wolf and bodies of dead Indigenous Americans following violence.

theme

strong language

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('son of a bitch', ass', 'bullshit', 'hell', 'Jesus').

sexual violence, strong violence, language

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A woman beats a man over the head after he sexually assaulted her; the attack results in visible bloody injury. Milder violence includes brief shoot-outs.

language

There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('son of a bitch', 'whore', 'shit', 'hell', 'damn').

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man gropes a woman under her dress; it is implied that he puts his hand inside her during the assault. There are also further references to sexual violence and sexually abusive behaviour.

sexual violence, strong violence, sex, nudity

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Shootings and impactful beatings result in bloody detail. A man bites another's ear during a fight. In another scene, a white man runs down a young Indigenous American with a horse.

sex

It is implied a man masturbates a woman while they lie in a bath together. Other scenes establish sex between a couple.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man is raped by another man; there is brief buttock nudity after the attack is interrupted. In another scene, a woman is held captive and it is implied she is being used as a sex slave.

nudity

There is sexualised breast and buttock nudity.

Director(s)Ben Richardson

Production year2023

Genre(s)Drama, Western

Approx. running minutes60m

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

04/06/2025

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

02/06/2025

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

28/05/2025

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified Date:

30/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Paramount Pictures International Limited

Classified date30/21/2023

LanguageEnglish