Lonesome Dove (Season 1)

Lonesome Dove (1989) is a landmark American miniseries you can watch online on iFILM — an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel directed by Simon Wincer. Two retired Texas Rangers, past their prime and bored of running a small-town cattle operation, cook up one last scheme: steal a herd from rustlers south of the border and push it 3,000 miles north to the open grasslands of Montana.

Robert Duvall plays Augustus McCrae, talkative and quick to laugh even when things go wrong. Tommy Lee Jones is his opposite — Woodrow Call, a man who communicates mostly in grim silence and sheer stubbornness. Around them: a crew of drifters and greenhorns, plus Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Angelica Huston and a young Steve Buscemi in the kind of ensemble that doesn't get assembled by accident. The four-part miniseries earned seven Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries.

The trail they ride is brutal — river crossings, outlaws, illness, grief. What makes Lonesome Dove linger is the friendship at its center: two men who've shared a lifetime and have almost nothing left to say, yet keep riding anyway. Stream the full miniseries online on iFILM.