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English. The Donner Party is a 1992 documentary film that traces the history of the Donner Party, an ill-fated pioneer group that trekked from Springfield, Illinois to Sutter's Fort, California - a disastrous journey of 2500 miles made famous by the tales of cannibalism the survivors told upon reaching their destination.
Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of the Donner and Reed families as they became victims of madness, death and cannibalism. 494 IMDb 8.2 1 h 23 min 1992. X-Ray ALL. Documentary · Edifying. Free trial of PBS Documentaries, rent, or buy. Watch with PBS Documentaries.
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Nov 27, 2015 · Dead of Winter: The Donner Party: Directed by Doug Glover. With Darrin Miller, Elizabeth Austin, Libby Baker, Jon Bloch. What starts as a call to the West quickly turns to a deadly journey for three families and their compatriots on a quest for the American Dream. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, they fall prey to sub-zero temperatures ...
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- Doug Glover
- 2015-11-27
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Jan 16, 2018 · This week on MWF, Grace and Amir dive into creepy American history with tragic story of the Donner Party - a group of around 90 people who were traveling west in the mid 1800s and resorted ...
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The Donner Party: Directed by Ric Burns. With David McCullough, J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones. Documentary exploring the struggles of The Donner Party, a group of American pioneers and their two Indigenous guides who became stranded in the Sierras during a horrible winter.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Ric Burns
- 1992-10-28
Oct 28, 1992 · A cautionary tale of human endeavor and failure, hope and despair, greed and ambition, The Donner Party chronicles the harrowing tale of the ill-fated emigrant group who set out for the...
The Donner Party. Three years before the Gold Rush, 87 pioneers took a shortcut westward to California, only to get caught in the snows of the Sierra Nevada. The emigrants' fateful journey culminated in death and cannibalism.
