Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

Nov 1, 2006

1h 23m

★ 0.0

The great American Indian Lakota Sioux Chief, spiritual leader and warrior as never before seen in a film.

Overview

Award-winning documentary, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, makes extensive use of Sitting Bull’s own words, giving the viewer an intimate portrait of one of America’s legendary figures in all his complexities as a leader of the great Sioux Nation: warrior, spiritual leader and skilled diplomat. Sitting Bull’s words, as portrayed by Adam Fortunate Eagle, dominate this story. Augmented by a narrator’s historical perspective, over six-hundred historical photographs and images, and a compelling original music score, the film brings to life the little-known human side of Sitting Bull as well as the story of a great man’s struggle to maintain his people’s way of life against an ever-expanding westward movement of white settlers. It is a powerful cinematic journey into the life and spirit of a legendary figure of whom people have often heard but don’t really know.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

LilliMar Pictures

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Cast

Sitting Bull (voice)

Adam Fortunate Eagle

Narrator

William Theobald

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Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

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