LAST STAND AT LITTLE BIG HORN (AMERICAN EXPERIENCE)

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: The Battle of Little Big Horn, known as ''Custer's Last Stand,'' has been one of the most frequently depicted moments in American history—and one of the least understood, still shrouded in myth.; ; The battle has inspired over 1,000 different paintings and works of art, calendar displays, comic books and cereal boxes. The golden-haired general and his doomed 7th Cavalry have been wiped out by Indians in more than 40 films. Yet the battle that left no white survivors also left two very different accounts of Little Big Horn: one white; one Native. Using journals, oral accounts and Indian ledger drawings as well as archival and feature films, a Native American novelist, James Welch (Winter in the Blood, The Indian Lawyer) and a white filmmaker, Paul Stekler (Eyes on the Prize) combine talents to examine this watershed moment from two views: from that of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Crow who lived on the Great Plains for generations; and from that of the white settlers who pushed west across the continent. Pulitzer Prize-winning Native American writer Scott Momaday narrates.
• Cast: David McCullough; David Ogden Stiers; Michael Murphy; Joe Morton; Linda Hunt; Will Lyman; Liev Schreiber; Philip Bosco; Julian Bond; Oliver Platt; Blair Brown; Brendan Gill; Eli Wallach; John Steele Gordon; George Plimpton; Callie Thorne; Kenneth Jackson; Robert A.M. Stern; Mike Wallace; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harris Yulin; Robert Sean Leonard; Pete Hamill; Campbell Scott; David Morse; Holly Hunter; Frances Sternhagen; Calvin O. Butts III; Robert A. Caro; Luc Sante; Craig Steven Wilder; Walter Cronkite; Stacy Keach; Benjamin Bratt; Daniel Czitrom; Josh Hamilton; John F. Kennedy; Neal Huff; Robert F. Kennedy; Harry S. Truman; Jason Robards; Stanley Karnow; Spalding Gray; Keith David; Marshall Berman; Caleb Carr; Paul Giamatti; Rudolph W. Giuliani; Alfred Kazin; Fran Lebowitz; Peter Quinn; Andre Braugher; Thomas Bender; Ed Koch; Adolf Hitler; Martin Luther King; Andrew Young; Doris Kearns Goodwin; Andrei Codrescu; Robert Dallek; Gene Jones; Peter Coyote; Richard Ben Cramer; Carol Berkin; Carol Willis; Joan Allen; Allen Ginsberg; James Hazeldine; Philip Lopate; Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Donald Trump; Rene Auberjonois; Jeanine Serralles; Laura Linney; Donald Fixico; Lyndon Johnson; Courtney B. Vance; Lee Wilkof; Hampton Sides; Paul A. Hutton; Michael Cumpsty; Kathy Peiss; Denis O'Hare; Michael Stuhlbarg; Richard Nixon; J. Edgar Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson; Luci Baines Johnson; Winston Churchill; Orson Welles; Vernon Jarrett; Woodrow Wilson; Jean Strouse; Ronald Reagan; Tony Kushner; Peter Haydu; Ada Louise Huxtable; E.L. Doctorow; Joshua Freeman; Janeane Garofalo; Frederic Kimball; David Levering Lewis; David Margulies; Ron Silver; Gretchen Sullivan Sorin; John Kuo Wei Tchen; Dion Graham; Kevin R. Hershberger; Eric Stoltz; Duncan B. Putney; Jefferson Mays; Dan Rather; Ingrid Alli; Kwabena Ampofo; Aaron Angus; Steve Annan; Lynn Bandoria; Jake Brennan; Richard Brooks; Scott Carter; Wendy Carter; Leiv Clegg; Thomas Coleman; Trina Comissiong; Crystal Cupp; Brian Elder; Denyse Ellington; Virginia Fields; Kacy Gabbert; Montrece Hill; Anthony Michael Hobbs; Kevin Inouye; Kevin Lawrence O'Donnell; Natalie Racoosin; Daniel Sheets; Kate Lyn Sheil; T. Ryder Smith; Paul Stober; Keith Tyree; Jacob Washburn; Jeff Wilhelm; Shaun Woodland; Hector Elizondo; Scott Glenn; James Avery; Carl Lumbly; Alfre Woodard; Ruth Gruber; Timothy Sawyer; Hermann Göring; Linda Emond; T.J. Stiles; Kevin Murray; Al Lewis; Gene Smith; Robert Murphy; John Curless; George Palmer Putnam; Daniel Gerroll; Robert Jensen; Kara Jackson; John Tebbel; Julia Morrison; Frank Pando; Chet Hansen; Clem McCarthy; Liberace; Boyd Gaines; George Wallace; Robert Redford; Vyacheslav Molotov; Nicholas Katzenbach; Herbert Hoover; Thomas A. Edison; William Howard Taft; Roger Wilkins; Morgan Freeman; Lynda Bird Johnson Robb; Morley Safer; George Reedy; Lois Smith; John Connally; Ronnie Dugger; James Jarrell Pickle; Amy Madigan; Amelia Earhart; Kathy Bates; Victor Reuther; Muhammad Ali; Marcus Garvey; Joseph Stalin; Eleanor Roosevelt; Peter Bogdanovich; Walter LaFeber; Theodore Roosevelt; William Randolph Hearst; Hirohito; Ruth Abram; Ruth J. Abram; Bella Abzug; Ann Douglas; Frances Golden; Cheryl Greenberg; Nancy Grose; Margo Jefferson; Frank McCourt; Patrick McGrath; Frank Pellegrino; Anna Quindlen; Susan Sarandon; Martin Scorsese; Isaiah Sheffer; Christine Stansell; Ray Suarez; Randy Quaid; Michael Hagiwara; Jean Harvey Baker; David Herbert Donald; David E. Long; Donald Miller; Mary Genevieve Murphy; Mark E. Neely Jr.; Tim L. Smith; Charles B. Strozier; Linda Levitt Turner; Margaret Washington; Frank J. Williams; Douglas L. Wilson; Marion Ross; Steve Acevedo; Ray Baker; Harry Bulkeley; Jude Ciccolella; Alex Ingram; Derek Nelson; Peter Parks; Ellen Wilson; Alan Francis; Ted Garland; John Meaney; Michele Proude; Donald Watson; Rena Baskin; Jesse Owens; Marlene Dietrich; Henry Kissinger; Will Le Bow; Patricia Cunningham; Oscar Goodman; Brian Greenspun; Bryant Gumbel; Dave Hickey; Jimmy Hoffa; Paul Horn; Howard Hughes; Paul Laxalt; Nicholas Pileggi; Hal Rothman; David Thomson; Dina Titus; Elaine Wynn; Steve Wynn; William F. Cody; Bernhard Seifert; Lewis D. Wheeler; Ken Verdoia; Terryl Givens; Marlin K. Jensen; Leslie Karsten; Emily Lodish; Richard Mouw; Margaret Toscano; Chris Cooper; Philip J. Deloria; R. David Edmunds; Wes Studi; Nathaniel Philbrick; Alan Davis; Matthew Gooley; Shawn Everett Jones; William Kaffenberger; Robert Lucas Nelson; Matt Nicholas; Roger Novak; Melissa Panos; Jon Douglas Rainey; Bart Fletcher; Kilon Bauno; Kyle MacLachlan; Richard Dreyfuss; Michael Burgess; Toni Cade Bambara; Hal Linden; Ron Tough; Cherry Jones; John Nash; Simon Schama; Russ Little; Will Patton; Jackson Walker; William Eskridge; John Smitherman; Ron Vawter; Patrick Jordan; Peter Francis James; Edward A. Askew; Robert Hall; CHARLES LORING BRACE IV; Anna Deavere Smith; Julia Álvarez; Phil Roberts; Seabiscuit; Michael Bortin; Christopher Kraft; Marilyn Spanier; Phil Stewart; Colm Feore; Guy Gane; Annelise Orleck; Martha Shelley; Bart Whiteman; Jennifer Lee Dake; Donald Chambers; John C. Ausland; Elton Fax; MATT CARLSON; David Lowe; Sarah Banet-Weiser; Barbara Feldon; Stephen Benson; Fred Gamst; Laura Hillenbrand; Timothy Findley; Susan Borman; Ken Coates; Gillian Cookson; Kanalu Young; Bob Ader; Fred Chiaventone; Simon Russell Beale; Mary Bacon; Clint Jordan; Jason Roberts; Denise Chávez; Richard A. Greenwald; Doric Wilson; Robert Fields; Charles King; Scott Whitehurst; Joe Bacile; Pearl Bowser; Dan Desmond; Suzannah Lessard; Margaret Cho; Wendell Huffman; Farrell Jones; Sean McGuirk; Dan Grove; Charles Hendricks; David Edward Stannard; William Jackson; Scott Klavan; Samuel Barnett; Joanna Merlin; Alexander Fedorchak; Raymond Castro; David Von Drehle; Michael Wallis; Adolph Mall; Geoffrey S. Barkway; Carlton Moss; MOIRA DRISCOLL; Paula Uruburu; Kimberly Clarice Aiken; Mark Carver; Norah Christianson; Ludlow Kramer; Bernard Finn; Haunani-Kay Trask; Heath Twichell; James Barbour; Robert Jackson; Christopher Phillips; Virginia Scharff; Gerry Bamman; Richard Biermann; Garman Bowers; Jo Ann E. Argersinger; Martin Boyce; Marty McDonough; Denise Burse; Sid Berger; Frances E. Williams; Anthony Fusco; Ric Ferentz; David Haward Bain; Sean Fitzgerald; Red Pollard; John Lester; Cobey Black; Andrew Chaikin; Donard De Cogan; William Griggs; Tom Goodrich; Whitney Harris; Shirl Kasper; Lauren Bloom; Veronica James; Michael E. Brown; Steven Fraser; Mark Lee Gardner; John O'Brien; Wayne Dehart; Ralph Bennett; Dorothy Delfs; Susan Gordon-Clark; William Goldman; Vicki Gold Levi; Carol Bowers; Billy Connor; Colin Hempstead; John M. Logsdon; Ah Quon McElrath; Deb Goodrich; Martha Minnow; Mary Zeiss Stange; Carl Nubile; Gregory Labenz; Danny Garvin; Frederick Nolan; Scott Edson; Dale Wright; Bill Bowdidge; Olive Delfs; Rachel Miner; Leonard Horn; Ken Cheeseman; Stanley Hirshson; Jack Whitaker; Jerry Bostick; John MacKay; Kay Napoleon; Hayward Oubre; John Barrett; Michael Gooch; R.L. Wilson; William Buser; Drew Gomber; John Sorenson; Ted McAdams; Cleveland Troy Simmons III; Felix P. Branham; Shingzie Howard; Amber Scott; Sue Fawn Chung; James Devon; War Admiral; John Bollin; Siobhan C. Edmondson; Glynn Lunney; Michael McColl; Benjamin Ferencz; Cathy M. Jackson; Don B. Wilmeth; Jeremiah Hornbaker; Virginia Apuzzo; N. Scott Momaday; Robyn Muncy; Paul Anderson; Ralph Wilcox; St. Claire Bourne Sr.; George Buckley; Larry Keith; Lee Meriwether; Frank Chin; Dan Dowling; George Woolf; Alex Allen; Henry Geyer; Alexei Leonov; Joy S. Kasson; Mitchell McCann; Richard Sonnenfeldt; Richard Easton; Grant Mudge; Ami Ankin; Fintan O'Toole; Bob Appleton; Donald Johnson Sr.; Ted Eaglen; Herb Jeffries; Nancy Loe; Isaac Mizrahi; Leonard Dorfman; Ernie Heung; Paul Stekler
• Director: Paul Stekler
• Runtime: 1:00
• Company: WGBH Boston, PBS Home Video, Paramount Home Video
• Media Format: Series