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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (DVDrip - 2007)by inem

English | Subtitle : English/French/Spanish | 132 min | XVid 640x352 | 448 kbps 5.1 AC3 | 23 fps | 1,4 Gb | FRAGMENT
Genre: Drama/History/Western | RS.com + ftp2share 5 mirrors
An adaptation of the 1971 nonfiction bestseller of the same name, this film captures a dramatic account of the early American West at the end of the 19th century. This tragic story of manifest destiny details the bloody fall of the American Indian as told through the eyes of three characters: Charles Eastman, Senator Henry Dawes, and Sitting Bull.

Beginning with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach), né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg), the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land - the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn), one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs.
While Eastman and patrician schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Anna Paquin) work to improve life for the Sioux on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant (Thompson) for more humane treatment, opposing the bellicose stance of General William Tecumseh Sherman (Feore).
Hope rises for the Sioux in the form of the prophet Wovoka (Studi) and the Ghost Dance - a messianic movement that promises an end of their suffering under the white man.
This hope is all but obliterated after the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890. Published in 1971, Dee Brown's book is one of the foremost works documenting the systematic subjugation of the American Indian during the latter half of the 19th century. It has sold nearly five million copies and has been translated into 17 languages. From Brown's encyclopedic tome chronicling the fate of the Dakota, Ute, Cheyenne and other tribes, the film focuses on the events leading up to the massacre of the Sioux, which many consider one of the most grievous atrocities in United States history.





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[ladygray]

absolutely wonderful movie by HBO.
thanks.

[Amorouspen]

An important movie in understanding why the native American may feel bitterness over the past.