American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn
by Rocky Collins, Matthew Collins (III)
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Actor: Marion RossDirector: Matthew Collins (III), Rocky Collins
Brand: Wgbh Wholesale
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: Not impressed
Summary: 2 Stars
Daniel Jolley or as he describes himself "darkgenious" really is a "darkidiot" he admits he already has a slanted view on Custer. He then goes on about some mindless dribble about custer not being a good cavalry commander. Look at Custer's civil war record and it was nothing but Victory after Victory. He captured more battle flags. more guns and prisoners than any other Union General. His men worshipped him so much they copied the way he dressed and they put more stock in receiving the Custer cross than they did any medal the Army gave out for Bravery. He had more requests for transfer to his unit than anybody else did too. He played a huge part in the Union Victory at Gettysburg and was the guy that finally ran Lee into the ground and accepted the flag of truce from Lee.
The beginning of the War Jeb Stuart ran rough shod over the Union Cavalry until custer came along. He was the first one to defeat Lee and finally it was one of his own soldiers that finally killed Stuart. He was such a vital clog in the Union victory Sheridan purchased the table that Lee and Grant signed the surrender on and gave it to custers wife with a note saying without your gallant husband none of this would have been possible. President Lincoln made a special effort to meet Mrs. custer on a train they were traveling on because he wanted to meet the wife of the gallant soldier he heard so much about. People say he had a high casualty rate and it was but you will when your aggresive and keep the pressure on the enemy. Just exactly what the cavalry is suppose to do. You want to talk about high casualty rates how about Grant when he was attacking Richmond and his officers were concerned because so many solders were getting killed and Grants respnse was I will glady sacrifice two of my soldiers for one confederate soldier. This is easy to do when your sitting back and ordering soldiers to attack and you dont have to worry about getting killed yourself. Custer always led the charge or if they were being pursued he was in the rearguard. He was always where the fighting was the fiercest.
The confederate soldiers even had a bounty on him to show much they knew it would help their cause if they could have killed him. If Custer would have been killed in the last week or so of the Civil War he would be remebered today as one of the great American heroes. He had a hard adjustment once the war was over and he wasnt the great Indian fighter. His first confrontations with the Indian didnt go well because he couldnt catch them because they wouldnt stand and fight and they knew the country and the Indians were masterful at using the country and fighting a hit and run type of battle. Custer learned though and won the Battle of the Washita river against Black Kettle. Black Kettle was apeace chief but his warriors were not and his warriors along with warriors from other tribes along the kansas and Colorado borders were raiding killing and raping and taking women prisioners for over a year. In a little over a years time they killed over 150 settlers and that is why the army was out.Custer found the village from following a raiding party's trail that led to the village. When the battle was over they found belongings that was took from raids among the whites along with a army mailbaig. This wasnt an innocent village that so many people try to portray. As far as attacking women and kids in the village what did the Indians do when they attacked white homesteads with maybe a father and mother and a couple of kids and the raiding party could be numbered from 20 to 300. that is something else people dont want to mention either
Custer was defeated at the Little Bighorn due to the him being letdown by Reno and Beenteen and the Indians being great warriors and fighters. Read some of the later books by the historians and you can get a much better view on the battle. books like To "Hell with Honor" and a "Terrible Glory" aand "Custer Vindicted" to name a few
Description 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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