Documentary - 135 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 2
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 350g

DVD compatibility

DISC ONE- Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone was the man whose life defined the image of the American frontier pioneer. Born in a log cabin in Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1734, he became an expert hunter and guide. More than any other man, Daniel Boone was responsible for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. Form an early age he undertook numerous explorations of unmapped spaces blazing a trail west.

Boone's life was full of great outdoor adventure including rescuing his daughter from Shawnee warriors as well as defending his fort and village, Boonesborough, from the Indians and British.

Despite his renown as a pioneer, his life was sadly punctuated with loosing his own land due to lack of clear title. He eventually settled in Missouri where he died in 1820 at the age of 85.

DISC TWO - Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse - the young, mystical leader of the Sioux has come to symbolise Indian resistance to the white advance westward.

His leadership in the 1876 defeat of Custer's 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn made him the most famous Indian warrior in America, a reputation he holds to this day.

Ironically, like many revered soldiers, Crazy Horse was a controversial and often despised figure among his own people and the white world. His demise was a sad one. Betrayed by his own people he was eventually bayoneted in the back whilst being held by his former friend Little Big Man. However, he will forever be remembered for leading the Sioux to their greatest victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

DISC THREE - Geronimo

Born in 1829, Geronimo was a peaceful young Apache. However, that all changed one night when his mother, wife and three children were killed by Mexican soldiers. On that fateful night he became one of the boldest warriors of all time.

Originally, Goyathlay, 'One Who Yawns', Geronimo became the most famous Apache for standing against the US government and for holding out the longest.

In 1876, Federal authorities captured and forced Geronimo and his band onto a US reservation at San Carlos, Arizona. It was described as 'Hell's Forty Acres'. He soon escaped to roam Arizona and New Mexico.

He was pursued relentlessly by more than five thousand US troops. Exhausted and hopelessly outnumbered, Geronimo surrendered in 1886 to love out the rest of his life imprisoned in Oklahoma.

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