Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Based On the book by Dee Brown

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.

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Release date:

May 27, 2007

Director:

Yves Simoneau

Cast:

Adam Beach, Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg, Aidan Quinn

Genre:

Historical

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

2007 in adaptations