Crazy Horse

TV Movie
1996
TV-14
1h 30m

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Peter Horton, Victor Aaron, and Michael Greyeyes in Crazy Horse (1996)

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The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

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6.3/10

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
August Schellenberg previously played Sitting Bull in Witness to Yesterday (1973) and would later do so again in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007).

Goofs
Major Reno is shown using a Henry Repeating Rifle, which later switches to a Winchester 1866. No Officers were using lever action rifles at the Little Bighorn. They mostly carried Sporting versions of the standard issue rifle, which was the Springfield Model 1873 "Trapdoor" Rifle. George Armstrong Custer carried a Remington Rolling Block Rifle in .50/70 caliber.

Quotes
Reporter: What about the Indians, General? And aren't the Black Hills officially Sioux land from the treaty of 1868?
General George Armstrong Custer: Whatever the right or wrong isn't the question. The Indians must be dispossessed. The practical question is how the inevitable can be accomplished with the least inhumanity to the Indians.
Reporter: Didn't General Polk say that?
General George Armstrong Custer: I believe in destiny, you see. For individuals as well as nations. Nothing can stop the movement of history.

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Not really worth your time...

This is history? It's one of those revisionist epics where the indians are depicted as goodie-goodies on a weekend scouting trip, have a beauty parlor and a gym in the camp somewhere, don't commit anything that could be viewed as offensive to modern viewers, all whites are evil brutes to a man and Custer is made personally responsible to all things bad that ever happened to the poor indians.

Furthermore it's doubtful that any indian tribe ever discussed matters military in terms of front lines and troops or whatever.

It's not even good as a old fashioned shoot-'em up adventure movie - it's too dull for that. If you want to see anything serious on the subject, watch "Dances With Wolves" or "Son of the Morning Star" instead.