Title:
American Experience: The Donner Party: A Film by Ric Burns
Author:
Burns, Ric
Ades, Lisa
Subject:
| American |
| History |
Description:
Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them victims of madness, death, and cannibalism. The program re-creates the Donner Party's journey from family journals, newspaper accounts, and interviews with historians and descendants.
Publisher:
PBS
Date:
2012-11-20
Digital Format:
HOOPLA MOVIE
Language:
English