Based on the book by Dee Alexander Brown.

Director of photography, David Franco ; editors, Michael Ornstein, Michael Brown ; music by George S. Clinton ; production designer, Ian Thomas ; costume designer, Mario Davignon ; Lakota dialect coaches, Rose Crane, Marina Crane.

Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, J.K. Simmons, Eric Schweig, Wes Studi, Colm Feore, Gordon Tootoosis, Shaun Johnston, Nathan Chasing Horse, Eddie Spears, Lee Tergesen, Holly Bird, Fred Thompson, Anna Paquin.

Originally broadcast by HBO on May 27, 2007.

By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives of Charles Eastman-a Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor; Senator Henry Dawes-member of the Committee on Indian Affairs; and Sitting Bull intersect in a manner that seems fated. The question that faces the government and the Sioux seems to leave two answers: assimilation versus extermination? It is answered by the assassination of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Indian men, women, and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Dolby digital 2.0 stereo; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 16:9.

In English and occasional Lakota or dubbed Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.

Emmy Awards, 2007: Outstanding made for television movie; Outstanding cinematography for a miniseries or movie.