Dead Man's Burden is a 2012 Western film directed by Jared Moshe.

They're given hope for a better life when a mining company shows interest in purchasing their homestead, but things become tense when Martha's brother Wade, who defected to the Union Army returns home after hearing of their father's death – unaware that Martha herself was the one who brought about his demise.

[3] Common elements praised in the film was Moshé's choice in cast, which Variety lauded as a highlight.

[4] In their mostly positive review IndieWire remarked that the lack of major stars and the choice to film a Western (which they saw as a "mostly defunct genre") could jeopardize commercial prospects.

[5] The New York Daily News's review was more mixed, as they felt that the "verbose period film has the complicated plot and tight pacing of a cable TV drama, which is then squashed into an indie-film paradigm.