Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Directed by

Yves Simoneau

Genre

historical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 136 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film dramatizes the experience of Native Americans in the late 1800s as their traditional way of life is forced onto reservations. It follows four real-life figures through treaties, displacement, and cultural loss.

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What happens

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a 2007 American Western historical drama television film based on the 1970 non-fiction book of the same name by Dee Brown. It is directed by Yves Simoneau and was produced by Wolf Films for HBO. It stars Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin, Colm Feore, and Gordon Tootoosis. The film dramatizes the history of Native Americans in the American West in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing upon the transition from traditional ways of living to living on reservations and their treatment during that period, through the lives of four main characters: Charles Eastman (Beach), Sitting Bull (Schellenberg), Henry L. Dawes (Quinn), and Red Cloud (Tootoosis). The title of the film and the book is taken from a line in the Stephen Vincent Benét poem "American Names." The film premiered on HBO on May 27, 2007. It received positive reviews from critics, and won seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie. It was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards: Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film, Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Beach, and Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Paquin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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