Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Television Film

Director: Yves Simoneau

Writers: Daniel Giat, Dee Alexander Brown

Cinematographer: David Franco

Composer: George S. Clinton

Cast: Adam Beach, Aidan Quinn, August Schellenberg, Gordon Tootoosis, Anna Paquin, Eric Schweig, Wes Studi, J.K. Simmons, Colm Feore, Fred Thompson, Nathan Chasing His Horse, Chevez Ezaneh

Spanning the period from The Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, this engrossing, multi award winning television drama, based on Dee Brown’s book, tells of the American government’s numerous attempts to “civilise” the Sioux Indians in the reservations of the Dakotas, but it is let down somewhat by some occasionally rather speachy dialogue and an often intrusive and manipulative score. Iain.Stott