The year is 872 and England is divided amongst the invading Danes and Wessex, the last standing Saxon stronghold. Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), born the son of a Saxon nobleman but captured and raised by Danes, must choose between the two and play his part in the birth of a kingdom. Based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories, The Last Kingdom is a visceral, action-packed, dynastic drama about one man’s quest to fulfill his destiny by reclaiming his birthright and capturing his ancestral lands.