Dead Man's Burden is a 2012 American Western film written and directed by Jared Moshe. It stars Barlow Jacobs and Clare Bowen as two siblings that reunite over the death of their father and a potential sale of their land.

Plot

Martha and her husband Heck are two hardy settlers trying to survive in New Mexico after the end of the Civil War and the death of Martha's father. 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.