This epic movie from HBO is based on Dee Brown's dramatic, bestselling account of the systematic subjugation of the American Indian during the latter half of the 19th century.
Starring Aidan Quinn and Anna Paquin, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee opens with the Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn and culminates with the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on 29 December 1890; a massacre which many consider one of the most grievous atrocities in United States history.
Published in 1971, Dee Brown's book, one of the foremost works on the subject, has sold nearly five million copies and has been translated into 17 languages.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a Film programme that first aired in 2007 and has been classified a 15 certificate.
