Løjtnant Dunbars heroiske indsats under borgerkrigen giver ham fribillet til selv at vælge tjenestested. Drevet af et ønske om at se "The frontier", inden den helt forsvinder, vælger han en post dybt inde i "Indianerlandet". Snart kommer han i kontakt med en Sioux indianerstamme, der er lige så ivrige efter at lære om de hvide, som han er efter at lære om dem.
Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman og Cary Elwes er nogle af de stjernenavne, der medvirker i denne hjertegribende beretning om det første sorte regiment, der kæmpede for Nordstaterne i den Amerikanske Borgerkrig. Broderick og Elwes er de to idealistiske unge mænd fra Boston, der leder regimentet; Freeman er den erfarne sergent, der samler soldaterne; og Denzel Washington, der her ses i en Oscar-vindende rolle (1989 for bedste mandlige birolle), er den undvegne slave, som er indbegrebet af den ukuelige vilje, der kendetegner det 54. regiment fra Massachusetts.
Sommeren 1863. Sydstatshærens tropper rykker nordpå og ind i Pennsylvania. Unionens divisioner samles for at møde dem. To store hære gør klar til et slag ved Gettysburg, som er hjemsted for et teologisk fakultet. Gennem tre dage er legendariske krigshandlinger som Little Round Top og Pickett's Charge med til at afgøre "en samlet og udelelig nations skæbne".
Ada og Inman forelsker sig under den amerikanske borgerkrig. Da Inman drager i krig, sværger Ada, at hun vil vente på ham. Men krigen varer ved, og da Ada's far dør, bliver det ikke lettere for hende at holde modet oppe og bejlerne fra døren. En dag kan Inman dog endelig sætte kurs mod sin hjemstavn, men der venter ham en lang og farefuld rejse.
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Native American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the people he was taught to hate.
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story building, 146 workers - mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls - were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst disaster at a workplace in New York State until 9/11. The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.