American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn

American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn
by Matthew Collins (III), Rocky Collins

American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn
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Actor: Marion Ross
Director: Matthew Collins (III), Rocky Collins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston

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Movie Review: Custer had no chance
Summary: 4 Stars

Custer had no chance. His portion of the 7th Calvery had 210 men and charged into the middle of the village that had 2000 warriors at mid-afternoon. His initial attacking force under Major Reno had been replused and retreated from the bottom end of the village, freeing up those Indians to attack Custer from another angle when he was already engaged.
The Sioux and Cheyenne had a lot of Henry and Winchester repeating rifles and most of them were firing from gullies making very small targets of themselves. While the troopers were exposed on ridges with single shot trap door Springfields. It's estimated that the Sioux and Cheyenne lost fewer than 50 warriors, while Custer lost 210 and Reno lost another 50 or so.

If Custer had waited a couple of days until the other forces came up the 27th, then maybe they could have joined forces and avoided a massacre. But it was not in Custer's make-up to wait and share the glory with another force that he was not in command of.

Custer should get credit though for holding off the Confedrate calvary that failed to hit the backside of the Union line opposite from Pickets force at Gettysburg.

Summary of American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn

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.

On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.

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