Edge of the World

“The true story that inspired The Man Who Would Be King”

5.4(84)20211h 41m

DramaAdventureHistory

Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer James Brooke is appointed rajah by the Sultan of Brunei, and as an independent ruler he embarks on a personal crusade to eradicate piracy, slavery and headhunting, while trying to curb the malevolent expansionist ambitions of the British Empire.

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Michael Haussman

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Cast

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Sir James Brooke

Josie Ho

Madame Lim

Dominic Monaghan

Crookshank

Hannah New

Elizabeth Crookshank

Ralph Ineson

Sir Edward Beech

Bront Palarae

Pengiran Indera Mahkota

Shaheizy Sam

Subu

Rahim Razali

Sultan of Brunei

Atiqah Hasiholan

Yusuf Mahardika

Samo Rafael

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1 review

Geronimo1967

2y ago

6.0

I used to collect coins and always remember the Sarawak ones with "J. Brooke - Rajah" on them. Well this is a story of that very man. At the height of British colonial expansion, James Brooke (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) arrives in a land terrorised by marauding pirates with Col. Cruikshank (Dominic Monaghan) and his enthusiastic young cousin Charley (Otto Farrant) where they are quickly embroiled in th...