• Director(s)

    Ben Richardson

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Western

  • Cast

    Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar

TV Show

1923: A Yellowstone Origin Story

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. …

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.

  • Director(s)

    Ben Richardson

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Western

  • Cast

    Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar

Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures International Limited
strong violence, injury detail
Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
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.
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.
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
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.
additional issues
Occasional scenes of moderate threat occur including a brief animal attack. Scenes of gun threat also occur.
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.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘son of a bitch’ and ‘bugger’. In scenes of moderate threat, a couple are stranded in the Kenyan bush and pursued and attacked by wild animals, which they fend off with gunfire; several animals are killed, without strong detail.
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.
additional issues
Infrequent strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'God' and 'damn'. Infrequent moderate sex references also occur.
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. 
additional issues
The episode features infrequent strong language ('f**k') and uses of 'bitch' and 'shit'. There are refernces to nuns beating and raping a teenage Native American girl in a Catholic 'Indian school'. There is moderate threat when a young woman is confronted and chased by a wolf. In another scene a tug boat is hit by a ship, throwing the passengers through the air.  
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.
additional issues
Characters are stranded at sea on an overturned boat, and are threatened by the tide, a lack of water and circling sharks. Moderate violence includes a man shoving a woman into a stove, where she hits her head, and a man hitting another over the head with the butt of his gun. A man makes sexist remarks, but he is swiftly reprimanded for doing so, and the episode as a whole does not condone discriminative behaviour. A character shows off to another partly healed scars on his chest. Characters consume alcohol.
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.
additional issues
Strong violence includes gunfire, eye-gouging, bludgeoning, scalping and throat-cutting, often resulting in blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail. There are also scenes of racist violence in which a group of white Catholic priests beat and attempt to abduct Native American individuals with the intention of forcing them into a residential school. A man engages in consensual sexual activity with two sex workers in a scene featuring sexualised breast and rear nudity. There is also use of strong language (‘f**k’), in addition to milder terms (e.g. ‘hooker’).
sexual violence
Classified Date:
31/05/2023
Use:
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.
additional issues
Occasional strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as misogynistic terms ('whore') and milder terms such as 'ass', 'bullshit' and 'God'. Police officers aggressively arrest a woman of East Asian descent for marrying a white man and offensively refer to her mixed-race children as 'mongrels'. This is accompanied by an act of physical violence towards the woman’s husband in front of their children. A pair of dead bodies are shown lying on the ground with their scalps removed. Characters are shown with bloody facial injuries in the aftermath of violence. The episode features a miscarriage and the theme is dealt with sensitively as the woman receives emotional support in the aftermath. There is a scene of moderate sex in which a naked woman straddles a man on a bed. This is accompanied by brief sexualised nudity. Scenes of moderate gun and knife threat also occur. Scenes of moderate violence include crunchy punches with resulting bloody injury detail.
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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.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms, such as 'son of a bitch', 'screw' and 'God'. A person intervenes when they find another person contemplating taking their own life. The bloodied fur of a lion is seen after it is shot. Indigenous Americans are referred to as 'Indians' by white Americans which reflects the period in which the drama is set.
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').
additional issues
Shootouts with guns and bows and arrows, as well as impactful beatings, result in bloody detail. There are undetailed shots featuring dead bodies. A wolf is found raiding a chicken coop and mauling a dead body inside a house. Several people make journeys in treacherous conditions. White Americans display contempt for Indigenous Americans; discriminatory references includes use of the term 'Indians'.
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.
additional issues
Mild violence includes brief and undetailed shootouts, as well as brief slaps. A white American refers to Indigenous Americans as 'Indians'.
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.
additional issues
A woman is paraded through the streets naked, covered in oil and bird feathers; she is being publicly shamed for being a 'prostitute'.
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.
additional issues
There are also references to sex work, as well as scenes of threat. White Americans refer to Indigenous Americans as 'Indians'.
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.
additional issues
There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('bloody', 'hell'). Scenes of strong violence include bloody shootings, as well as stabbings and brief beatings. Corpses are briefly seen in the aftermath of violence.
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.
additional issues
Strong violence features prolonged shootouts accompanied by bloodshed and aftermath injury detail. There are scenes of gun threat, as well as a woman’s ordeal trapped in freezing temperatures. There is infrequent strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms (‘son of a bitch’), as well as references to discrimination against Indigenous Americans.
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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 date

    30/05/2023

  • Distributor

    Paramount Pictures International Limited

  • Language

    English