Custer: Dance with the Dead

The Battle of Little Big Horn has been a source of tragic mythmaking as well as a source of everlasting controversy. On the grand scale of warfare, it was a mere skirmish, but in the collective mind of America, a defining event.

George Armstrong Custer, the dashing commander of the Seventh Cavalry, rode into the jaws of death—and into immortality. Opposing him—the most famous Indian Chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux—Sitting Bull. Controversy about what truly happened that fateful day in 1876 still abounds. How could America's most successful General have lost so spectacularly? How could Sitting Bull have led the Indian nations to this stunning victory, a victory which would ultimately be their last?

In the past two decades modern archaeology has answered many of these questions. Now it is possible to know exactly what happened on the banks of Little Big Horn over a century ago. Custer: Dance with the Dead takes viewers back to the time of this defining battle. Modern archaeology and computer mapping techniques enable scientists and historians to recreate the defining battle blow-by-blow and bullet-by-bullet. Stunning dramatic recreations allow viewers to see first-hand the answer to one of the most enduring questions in American history: What really happened to Custer and his men at the Little Big Horn?

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