“Netflix's 'Godless': How the 7-Episode Western Nails the Real History of La Belle, New Mex” — what this page in the network covers. Netflix's limited series 'Godless' (2017) has earned praise as a 'Clint Eastwood meets Deadwood' Western, but its historical accuracy is often overlooked. Created by Scott Frank and starring Jeff Daniels, Jack O'Connell, and Michelle Dockery, the seven-episode show is set in the fictional town of La Belle, New Mexico, in 1884.
While La Belle itself is invented, the series draws heavily from real events, including the infamous mining boomtowns of the American Southwest and the violent legacy of outlaw gangs like the one led by Daniels' character, Frank Griffin. The show's depiction of a town populated largely by women after a mining disaster echoes the real-life 1884 disaster at the Bull Domingo Mine in Colorado, where many men perished, leaving women to run the community. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.