0:01:01 > 0:01:03GUNSHOT
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Ain't that Traveler?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I said, "Ain't that Lee's horse?"
0:04:18 > 0:04:25- Yes.- What's Lee doing here? - He's surrendering to Grant.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Lead looks close to the heart.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33First Yankee I've missed in four years. Betcha the bullet's warped.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37- Why didn't you look? - Didn't want dirty hands.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Why did you bring him in here?
0:04:40 > 0:04:45- Lee's still got his sword. - Grant must've let him keep it.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50- Maybe he didn't want to give it up. - We lost the war, soldier.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58So there he is - the great and glorious General Grant(!)
0:05:12 > 0:05:14If you're gonna shoot Grant,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17you'd better shoot Lee too, else the shame will kill him.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45Just like I said.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Like I said from the beginning, the bullet's warped, warped.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56It's the last bullet shot in this war.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01# I'm an old rebel soldier
0:06:01 > 0:06:04# And that's just what I am
0:06:04 > 0:06:07# And for this Yankee nation
0:06:07 > 0:06:09# I do not give a damn
0:06:09 > 0:06:12# I hate the starry banner
0:06:12 > 0:06:15# It's stained with Southern blood
0:06:15 > 0:06:18# And I hate the poisoned Yankees
0:06:18 > 0:06:21# And I fought 'em all I could
0:06:26 > 0:06:29# I hate the Yankee nation
0:06:29 > 0:06:31# And the uniform of blue
0:06:32 > 0:06:35# I hate the constitution
0:06:35 > 0:06:38# Of this great republic too
0:06:39 > 0:06:43# I hate the mighty gold
0:06:43 > 0:06:46# With all its brass and fuss
0:06:47 > 0:06:50# Oh, those evil, lying Yankees
0:06:50 > 0:06:53# I hate 'em worse and worse
0:06:57 > 0:07:00# I can't take up my musket
0:07:00 > 0:07:03# And fight 'em any more
0:07:04 > 0:07:06# But I ain't gonna love 'em
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# And that is mighty sure
0:07:10 > 0:07:13# And I don't want no pardon
0:07:13 > 0:07:16# For what I've done around
0:07:16 > 0:07:19# And I won't be reconstructed
0:07:19 > 0:07:21# And I do not give a damn! #
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Let me get out of this thing.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Thank you.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Well, he went and done it.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37General Lee got right down on his hands and knees
0:07:37 > 0:07:42and begged President Johnson for pardon.
0:07:42 > 0:07:49But if it's good enough for them, I reckon it's good enough for me.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50He never begged.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56He never begged? I wish you was right.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58What makes you so sure?
0:07:58 > 0:08:06When I went back to town to get that bullet, I heard it official that he swallowed his pride and begged.
0:08:06 > 0:08:13- What bullet?- The bullet you had cut out of that Yankee Lieutenant you shot the last day of the war.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- How'd you get this? - Your ma gave it to us.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Why?- Well...
0:08:19 > 0:08:22.. look at that.
0:08:22 > 0:08:27- That ain't the bullet. That's new. - All but the head. It's been fixed.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- There's writing on it.- Writing? What kind of writing?- It says...
0:08:31 > 0:08:35"Private Emira, Sixth Virginia Volunteers,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39"who shot this last bullet in war...
0:08:39 > 0:08:41"..and missed!"
0:08:44 > 0:08:50It's a little token. It's a little token from us to you.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56But the best news...
0:08:56 > 0:09:01the best news was when your ma said that you'd come home in one piece.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06Best news I got was when Lincoln was dead. What's the matter, Mama?
0:09:06 > 0:09:10A man shows respect even for a dead Yankee President.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Lost your reason? The baboon was shot too late.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17The bullet that killed him may prove worse for us than for the North.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21- You sound sick in the head.- He said he'd take us back in the Union.
0:09:21 > 0:09:26- Who cares about the Union?- We do.
0:09:26 > 0:09:31I know it's a shame to take the Oath of Allegiance to become Americans again...
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Jeff Davis is in jail.
0:09:34 > 0:09:42- Lee's begging in the mud. A fine way to take us back into the Union. - No man's beaten without some hatred.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44And I hate, Mama.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48I hate!
0:09:48 > 0:09:51I don't understand you, Mother.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Pa was killed at Chickamauga.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Jed had his head cut off at Fredericksburg.
0:09:59 > 0:10:07Eli. Eli lay with his belly in his hand, bleeding to death in the wheat fields of Gettysburg.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Mama, I know. I seen them.
0:10:11 > 0:10:16I seen their skin and blood and I buried them.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- I had to bury 'em, Mama. - I- buried 'em, you didn't.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26What am I supposed to say now to the Yankees?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28"Welcome home, sir?
0:10:30 > 0:10:33"I love you Yankees?!"
0:10:35 > 0:10:39How did you...how did you expect me to come home?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42I expected you to come home a man with honour.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47A man with honour?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53You expected me to come home with honour?!
0:10:53 > 0:10:54What's the matter with you?
0:10:54 > 0:10:59What's the matter with all of you? They came and took our land!
0:10:59 > 0:11:02They chased us when we had no legs!
0:11:02 > 0:11:07They stuffed their mouths with our food when we were starving to death.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Where's your pride?!
0:11:09 > 0:11:13What's happened to all of you?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16We had to take a lickin' and not cry.
0:11:16 > 0:11:23- You don't have to fight for the cause no more. - Mama, I don't have to do anything.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28I am a rebel because I want to be, not because I have to be.
0:11:28 > 0:11:35- Wherever you go, there's gonna be Yankees and you gotta learn to live with them.- Not the place I'll be.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- What place?- The West. The Far West.
0:11:38 > 0:11:44- Where the savages live?- Savages or no, they have more pride than us.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48There's no hiding place for what ails you, son.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51We're all under one flag now.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55I want to tell you something, Mother.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57I'll hang.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01I'll hang before I recognise that flag.
0:12:01 > 0:12:06Maybe a broken neck is the best answer for what ails you.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Maybe, Mama.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Maybe!
0:13:42 > 0:13:45What a darn fool way to waste good whisky.
0:13:52 > 0:13:58That's fine whisky! The buzzards was all prepared to peck your eyes out.
0:13:58 > 0:14:06- Take it from an old army scout - any closer, I'd have bit their heads off. - A Sioux scout for the damn Yankees?
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Confederate States of America.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Still fighting the war, Mr Johnny Sore-Loser?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19I want to tell you something.
0:14:19 > 0:14:26You'd better get one thing straight, old man. You may be old, but you're not ready to be buried yet.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Maybe, but I will be when I run out of whisky.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34I'm carrying a bad heart.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Going home to die.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41- Where you heading?- Anywhere.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Now "anywhere" can be with me until I run dry.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51US Cavalry. That's a nice piece of Yankee horseflesh you got there.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54That's right.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Plenty of land out here in this Sioux country.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05- Not for the white men. - Maybe they could use an unemployed Confederate sharpshooter.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07That's renegade talk.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13- My name's Emira. What's yours? - Walking Coyote.- Walking Coyote.
0:15:13 > 0:15:20- What outfit? Georgia Cavalry? - No, it's the Virginia Infantry. Let's get that straight.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23- Infantry?- That's right.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27- Well, what's so funny? - Only squaws walk.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Get up, boy. Hey!
0:15:57 > 0:16:01WALKING COYOTE PLAYS MOUTH-ORGAN
0:16:15 > 0:16:19EMIRA HUMS SAME TUNE
0:16:41 > 0:16:45What was the name of that tune you just played?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It's a love song.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52It's a darling tune, in spite of the way you played it.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55It's for lovin'.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- Have you got a squaw?- No.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- You?- No.
0:17:08 > 0:17:15Sometimes I feel it might be better to curl up with a squaw around a fireplace rather than a saddle.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Well, I wouldn't argue with you on that point.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25Listen, erm...how many tribes are there in your nation?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29We're divided into three divisions.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33The Santee, the Yanton and the Teton.
0:17:33 > 0:17:38I'm an Oglala. That's one of the seven tribes of the Teton Sioux.
0:17:38 > 0:17:44Every tribe has a lot of bands. Every band has a chief.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46I could have been a chief.
0:17:46 > 0:17:54- What's Sioux mean in your language? - It's a French word.- French word? - Yeah. Our real name is Lacota.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59Before scalping was the thing to do, we used to slit our enemies' throats.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04- What's that got to do with the French?- We fought the Chippewa,
0:18:04 > 0:18:11and when they tied up with the French, they told 'em we were... Sioux. Sioux means cut-throat.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15- Why are you so interested in Sioux? - I don't know.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19I'd like to be one.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Why?- Because.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27Because cut-throats should stick together.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32- You serious?- I'm serious.- No. - I'd like to learn your language.
0:18:32 > 0:18:40- I'd like to learn it to you, if St Christopher will keep you in one piece.- You like St Christopher?- Yeah.
0:18:40 > 0:18:45- Are you a Christian?- No. My religion is Yawippe.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Yawippe? Hey, Yawippe.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50- That's sort of a denomination?- Yeah.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55- You said you could've been a Sioux chief.- That's true.- Why didn't you?
0:18:55 > 0:18:58I can't stomach politics!
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Get up, boy.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Let's go now.
0:19:39 > 0:19:44- What's the horse's head for?- That's so he'll have his pony to ride when he gets to the happy hunting ground.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Oh, look!
0:19:49 > 0:19:51What's that there?
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Another Sioux post office?- Yeah.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Three more babies born to the Minneconjou tribe.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03You picked up our customs quick.
0:20:03 > 0:20:09It's not so difficult, you know. Wait a minute.
0:20:09 > 0:20:15- It's the sign of a small party. 8 or 10 riding light.- Sioux ponies.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18I don't see a sign of 'em.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22When you can't see 'em, they're looking at you. GUNSHOTS
0:20:36 > 0:20:41INDIANS WHOOPING
0:20:57 > 0:21:02- Don't touch your gun.- What, leave myself wide open?- Don't touch it.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07Turn around, slow like, and keep your mouth shut.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Turn.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34- That man is no enemy of the Sioux. - His horse wears the US enemy brand.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Who are you? - Walking Coyote. One of your tribe.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42- Walking Coyote. - Yes.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47I've heard about you. A renegade paid by the whites to kill us.
0:21:47 > 0:21:53- Me kill a Sioux? I'm a Sioux. I came home to my tribe. - You have no tribe.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57That's up to Blue Buffalo to decide. He is still your chief?
0:21:57 > 0:22:03Yes, but it's up to me to decide. Me, Crazy Wolf.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07- We're gonna hang you, old man. - I demand a hearing!
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Drunk and mean, all of 'em, and painted for trouble.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28In my day we showed a little respect for the aged.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32I don't know what the world is coming to nowadays.
0:22:32 > 0:22:39These young bucks run wild, drink whisky, loot lodges, attack girls.
0:22:45 > 0:22:50They look like they're getting ready to hang you.
0:22:50 > 0:22:57- You learned our lingo good.- Too good. Otherwise I wouldn't be sweating out the fact they're gonna skin me.
0:22:57 > 0:23:02You're lucky to be going that way even though it takes longer dying.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06- I wish they'd carve me alive.- What?
0:23:06 > 0:23:11In my religion, you don't get to heaven if you're hanged.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20We're faster than the Run Of The Arrow!
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- YO ! - It worked.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42They ask for the Run!
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Come on.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- Why'd they let us go?- Save wind.
0:24:23 > 0:24:30Put that arrow down! Even to a renegade and a white, we do not violate the Run!
0:24:30 > 0:24:33What's he mean "violate the Run"?
0:24:33 > 0:24:39A man could get skinned alive from sunset to sunrise if he violated it.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42This game is called Run Of The Arrow.
0:24:42 > 0:24:50- When we get to the spot where his arrow fell, we start running. They run after us.- On foot?- Yeah.
0:24:50 > 0:24:58- Except they're not barefoot like us. - He fired it quite a way. Maybe we've got a chance.- That's the idea.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02They torture us with the chance to make an escape.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08You cannot run, though.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10You're too old.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13You ain't.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17There's one thing I gotta tell you, son.
0:25:18 > 0:25:24Nobody ever made the Run, and lived to tell about it.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Now if we can just keep this distance between them and us,
0:25:41 > 0:25:45stay out of bow shot, we've got a running chance.
0:25:45 > 0:25:52But you see what Crazy Wolf can do with an arrow, so don't let him get a bow range on you.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58Well...I want to say...
0:25:59 > 0:26:02..I think it's a shame that...
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Yeah, it's a pity.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10Well...just pray to God and start running!
0:30:13 > 0:30:16Have you seen a white man running?
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Have you?
0:30:20 > 0:30:23Have you seen a white man?
0:31:56 > 0:32:01You speak our language without an accent. You do not speak Sioux like an American.
0:32:01 > 0:32:07I'm not an American. I was running...
0:32:07 > 0:32:10- I was running...- You must be quiet.
0:32:10 > 0:32:11How many guards are there?
0:32:11 > 0:32:16No-one knows you are here. No-one knows but Silent Tongue.
0:32:18 > 0:32:23He can't speak. He was born without voice.
0:32:23 > 0:32:27- Is that your son? - No, his people are dead.
0:32:27 > 0:32:31You know what it means to violate the Run?
0:32:32 > 0:32:34I know.
0:33:22 > 0:33:27I wish...I wish to speak to your chief, Blue Buffalo.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34I'm Blue Buffalo.
0:33:34 > 0:33:37I've lived the Run Of The Arrow.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47Is this the man who outran you?
0:33:49 > 0:33:53Yes. You're the first to live the Run.
0:33:53 > 0:33:58You'll never die by the hands of the Sioux. Give back his horse.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02- You speak like a Sioux, not a white man.- My teacher was Walking Coyote.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Oh, that poor renegade.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16He's sick with the fever.
0:34:16 > 0:34:22Our law prevents us from killing any man who has lived the Run, but we have no law to help him live.
0:34:22 > 0:34:27The choice is yours. Who among you will help him through the night?
0:34:27 > 0:34:28I will.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36I will help him through the night.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49They're heading through the wheat field. Use the rifle.
0:34:50 > 0:34:54Pick up his head. That's my brother!
0:34:54 > 0:34:59Lee begged. Lee begged.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02Where's Pickett? Where's Longstreet?
0:35:02 > 0:35:05Watch out, Pa!
0:35:05 > 0:35:07Bury the bodies, Ma.
0:35:08 > 0:35:15If she can keep him in there all night and steam that fever out of him, I think then maybe he'll live.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Bury Pa.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20And bury Jed.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23And bury Eli.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27Bury them bodies, Ma.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Is that for me?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Thank you.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56What's the matter with him?
0:35:56 > 0:36:01Among our people, when one takes something, one gives something in return.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Oh.
0:36:08 > 0:36:09Blow.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10MUSICAL NOTE
0:36:10 > 0:36:15That is the first sound to ever come from his mouth.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25What does it mean - "honeymoon"?
0:36:26 > 0:36:28- Honeymoon, huh?- Yeah.
0:36:28 > 0:36:32- Why are you laughing? - You wanna know what it means?- Yes.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36- Honeymoon?- Yes. - Well, honeymoon is, er...
0:36:38 > 0:36:43Yeah. Honeymoon is a white man's word...
0:36:44 > 0:36:48Honeymoon is a white man's word for the...
0:36:48 > 0:36:55..for the private passing of time between two people after they've been married.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57- Understand, huh?- Yes.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19He's here.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39He wants to become a Sioux,
0:37:39 > 0:37:46to take Yellow Moccasin as his squaw and to adopt Silent Tongue as their son.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49- But his skin is enemy. - I'm not an American.
0:37:49 > 0:37:54- But your skin is white. - But my heart's with the Sioux.- Why?
0:37:55 > 0:37:58Because I love your people.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02I've learnt from Yellow Moccasin that a man can't live alone.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07He must have allegiance to a people, to a nation.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11In my heart my nation is Sioux.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15Would you kill the Americans in battle?
0:38:18 > 0:38:19Yes.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26Are there any objections?
0:38:28 > 0:38:32- Mix the blood.- Before you mix the blood, I must speak of my faith.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36- Faith?- Yes.- What do you mean? - I'm a Christian.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42I will live as a Sioux. I will hunt as a Sioux.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45I will fight. I will even die as a Sioux.
0:38:45 > 0:38:50But my God is a Christian God. I can't serve your greater spirit.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58We respect a man who respects his faith.
0:38:58 > 0:39:03This God of yours, is he the giver and creator of all life?
0:39:04 > 0:39:06Yes.
0:39:06 > 0:39:12- Do you look to him for the cure of disease and illness and to make you strong and healthy?- I do, yes.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18- How many Gods do you serve? Do you have more than one?- No, no.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20- Just one.- Just one.
0:39:22 > 0:39:26Americans - are they all Christians?
0:39:26 > 0:39:31No, some are. Some are of other denominations like your religions.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37You are a Christian.
0:39:37 > 0:39:41Would you kill Christians in battle?
0:39:43 > 0:39:44Well...
0:39:47 > 0:39:53..My nation fought for liberty against the United States...
0:39:54 > 0:39:59..and Christianity is always the brother of liberty in all wars.
0:40:03 > 0:40:08We have the same god but with a different name.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11Mix the blood.
0:40:12 > 0:40:19The things you feel in your hearts for one another will mark your feelings for the rest of your life.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23Marriage is the beginning of life for both of you. Death is the final parting.
0:40:23 > 0:40:27Now you are two bodies in one blood.
0:40:40 > 0:40:46So many times I've asked. Why won't you tell me what you carry in that?
0:40:46 > 0:40:48I'll tell you. It's a bullet.
0:40:48 > 0:40:53It's a bullet that was used in the war with the white men.
0:40:53 > 0:40:59- Why do you carry it?- Because it was a trophy that was given to me
0:40:59 > 0:41:02by the people of my village - a war trophy.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09- It's got writing on it.- Writing?
0:41:09 > 0:41:15- Writing - like the signs on our tepees. Wanna hear what it says?- Yes.
0:41:15 > 0:41:22It says, "To Private Emira, Sixth Virginia Volunteers, who shot this last bullet in the war...
0:41:22 > 0:41:24"..and missed."
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Uncover the guidon and flag!
0:41:43 > 0:41:47Sound the bugle and put spit into it!
0:41:47 > 0:41:50BUGLE CALL
0:42:24 > 0:42:31Lieutenant Driscoll, commanding B Troop, Second Cavalry, First Division, reporting to Col Taylor.
0:42:31 > 0:42:36Glad to meet you. Compliments for being selected for this mission.
0:42:36 > 0:42:43- Nothing complimentary about wet-nursing engineers and carpenters.- Itching for combat?
0:42:43 > 0:42:50- That's what I'm paid for.- You're paid to escort a non-combatant train. Capt Clark is the boss of that train.
0:42:50 > 0:42:56- May I ask about the area?- If we can come to terms with the Sioux,
0:42:56 > 0:42:59that area will be designated by Chief Red Cloud and General Allan.
0:42:59 > 0:43:03I thought we had that Indian on his knees begging for terms.
0:43:03 > 0:43:08You've read too many Eastern newspapers.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10B Troop can make that Indian beg.
0:43:12 > 0:43:18A young officer at Port Phil Kearny had the same sickness you've got, Lieutenant. His name was Fetterman.
0:43:19 > 0:43:24He said he could ride through the Sioux nation with 80 men.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27He tried it.
0:43:29 > 0:43:3281 men were massacred by the Sioux.
0:43:32 > 0:43:38Capt Fetterman was infantry, sir. It would've been different if he'd had some cavalry to back him up.
0:43:39 > 0:43:44For your information, we're the ones asking Red Cloud to meet our terms.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47- See to your men.- Yes, sir.
0:43:51 > 0:43:57We break our backs making peace with the Indians and they send us men like that, scratching for combat.
0:43:58 > 0:44:02I guess he's not the only frustrated Custer in the army.
0:44:25 > 0:44:30BUGLE PLAYS
0:44:50 > 0:44:57- Like you, General Allan, we're tired of fighting. - Why can't we come to terms?
0:44:57 > 0:45:02- Your request?- Permission from Chief Red Cloud to build Fort Lincoln...
0:45:02 > 0:45:08- What did you promise your people?- To keep the road open to the goldfield.
0:45:08 > 0:45:13- I can't give you permission to build this fort.- Why?
0:45:13 > 0:45:21- You'll frighten away our buffalo. We'll have to eat dogs.- We do not go through your hunting territory.
0:45:21 > 0:45:27- And the fort?- It will be built where you and I agree.- There is one condition.- What's that?
0:45:27 > 0:45:33- One of my warriors must scout for your people.- We already have 3 Indian scouts.- They're not Sioux.
0:45:33 > 0:45:38They're Delaware, Kiowa, Kwahadi Comanche, but they're not Sioux.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41- Then you don't trust them, eh?- No.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47My warrior knows the country. He knows where our buffalo is.
0:45:47 > 0:45:53He speaks your language like a white man, and he is not like your Indian scouts.
0:45:54 > 0:45:58What's most important - he's a Sioux.
0:46:00 > 0:46:05This is the scout I've selected. He'll be my voice on the expedition.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09He has no love for the Americans, but his word is the word of a Sioux.
0:46:10 > 0:46:16Every officer, soldier and civilian will obey his instructions as to trails to follow, where to camp,
0:46:16 > 0:46:23- and where to build the fort. - General Allan speaks for the President. You have heard his words.
0:46:23 > 0:46:30- Glad to have you scout for the American Govt. - I scout for the Sioux.
0:46:30 > 0:46:36- It's the first time I ever met an Irish Indian.- It's the first time I ever met a Yankee General.
0:46:37 > 0:46:40This is Captain Clark, army engineers.
0:46:44 > 0:46:48Lieutenant Driscoll, commanding B Troop, will escort the expedition.
0:47:10 > 0:47:15There's a wire cut on this hock joint. I treated that cut myself. This is my horse.
0:47:15 > 0:47:20- I know.- What?- I took him from you. - You took him from me?- That's right.
0:47:20 > 0:47:23I'm the Johnny Reb that fired the last bullet of the war right there.
0:47:29 > 0:47:35- Was there any trouble?- No. No, there was no trouble.
0:47:36 > 0:47:43Red Cloud agreed to build a fort. I think he's making a big mistake. I've got to go scout with them.
0:47:43 > 0:47:49- Will there be many soldiers? - No, it's a peaceful expedition. - Then we can come.- I think so.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52You know what a bad cook I am!
0:47:54 > 0:47:59- Is something wrong between you and that man?- Yes.
0:47:59 > 0:48:03- Do you know him from the war?- Yeah.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06I shot him with that bullet.
0:48:06 > 0:48:11- Does he know it was you who shot him?- Yes.
0:48:11 > 0:48:17- When you wounded him, why did you bring him to your medicine man to be healed?- I don't know.
0:48:17 > 0:48:23- A Sioux wouldn't save an enemy. - Well, you saved me, didn't you?
0:48:23 > 0:48:27- I didn't try to kill you. - That's right.
0:50:09 > 0:50:14Wheeler got hit. What's that? Arrow in his back.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23- He was killed inside the corridor. - That's right.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26What report do I send back now?
0:50:26 > 0:50:31That this is an arrow belongs to an Indian named Crazy Wolf.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35- Is he a Sioux? - Yes, yes, he's a Sioux.
0:50:35 > 0:50:40- And he's a renegade. - Red Cloud didn't waste any time.
0:50:40 > 0:50:45- Crazy Wolf was acting on his own. - Why?- He doesn't trust the white man.
0:50:45 > 0:50:48- Do you?- I just don't trust Yankees, that's all.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53We haven't broken our word.
0:50:53 > 0:50:57- I'm here to see that you don't. - I'm gonna run down Red Cloud...
0:50:57 > 0:51:03- He wasn't involved.- I agree.- How can you take the word of this Reb?! - String him up.
0:51:03 > 0:51:08- I'll tell you when to hang a man. - Do we go after them?- No, we don't.
0:51:11 > 0:51:16I didn't know West Point turned out officers to be Indian lovers.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26- You trust Red Cloud, don't you?- Yeah.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29More important right now, I trust you.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32Come on. We've still got a fort to build.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53All right, look now.
0:51:53 > 0:51:55We'll bivouac here.
0:51:55 > 0:51:59And stay away from the quicksand there. Quicksand right there.
0:52:24 > 0:52:29I don't understand Driscoll. Putting cowpokes in B Troop.
0:52:29 > 0:52:33Nothing cavalry about them. They don't ride cavalry like us.
0:52:33 > 0:52:39Driscoll wants fighters. He's got 'em. Yes, he has.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45I wish that kid would stop playing that mouth-organ.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50Let's get some grub.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01Take it easy, boy.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04Take it easy.
0:53:06 > 0:53:11Give me your hand, boy. Come on. Give me your hand.
0:53:40 > 0:53:44Wait a minute, Corporal. Yes, sir.
0:53:44 > 0:53:52I don't know why they made it this way. It's a medieval torture rack. My stern can't stand it one more day.
0:53:52 > 0:53:58You see that? The saddle favours the animals.
0:53:58 > 0:54:03We in the cavalry... I don't care about the cavalry! Just fill up that hole.
0:54:03 > 0:54:09See what you can do to make it a little friendly, Corporal. Yes, sir.
0:54:13 > 0:54:16Horses.
0:54:17 > 0:54:21- How's the boy, all right? - He's fine, fine.
0:54:21 > 0:54:26About the Sergeant, sir... I'd like to say something about that, sir.
0:54:26 > 0:54:31I'm sorry I didn't... I guess there's just some things I don't quite understand.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Well, Yankees are human.
0:54:36 > 0:54:41You're not the only Johnny Reb fighting a one-man war against the United States, you know.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48- Some of them went down to South America.- I know, sir.
0:54:48 > 0:54:54- Why didn't you?- I guess because I consider this country not being part of the United States.
0:54:54 > 0:54:59Not now, but it will be pretty soon.
0:55:00 > 0:55:05- What was your outfit? Sixth...? - Sixth Virginia Infantry.- Infantry.
0:55:05 > 0:55:11I don't have to tell you how to fight a war, but it's why there's fighting. That's what's important.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13Think we were wrong?
0:55:14 > 0:55:21Blood and kin and home are worth fighting for, but no man can put that above his country...
0:55:21 > 0:55:25You don't understand, sir. We had a right to fight for our rights.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30- Lincoln had to keep the Union together.- No, Union be damned.
0:55:30 > 0:55:34You Northerners don't understand. We don't like you making up laws.
0:55:34 > 0:55:40We never liked it. Telling us what to do and think, who to live with.
0:55:41 > 0:55:47We'll fight it. We may go down fighting, but we'll go down like a free, white, Christian country.
0:55:50 > 0:55:53Free, white and Christian, huh?
0:55:53 > 0:55:58Burning crosses and hiding under pillow-cases and terrorising families,
0:55:58 > 0:56:02- free, white and Christian?- I don't know anything about that, sir.
0:56:03 > 0:56:09Oh, yeah, it's always the other fella.
0:56:09 > 0:56:14Captain, I'd like you to understand something.
0:56:14 > 0:56:21No matter what you believe, no matter how good you think it is, you'll never make the South...
0:56:21 > 0:56:25Nobody's asking you to be a Fourth Of July patriot,
0:56:25 > 0:56:31- but living like an Indian, fighting your own people, that's not gonna cure you.- Cure me of what?- Hate.
0:56:31 > 0:56:33Blind hate.
0:56:33 > 0:56:39- You ever hear that old story about Philip Nolan?- No, sir, I never did.
0:56:39 > 0:56:47Well, Philip Nolan was a officer in the American army back in...1807, something like that.
0:56:47 > 0:56:52- He got himself mixed up with Aaron Burr. You know Burr, the traitor? - Yeah, we read books in the South.
0:56:52 > 0:56:58Anyway, he was like you.
0:56:58 > 0:57:03Hated all the Americans... for some reason or other.
0:57:03 > 0:57:08So one day he upped and said, "Damn the United States.
0:57:08 > 0:57:10"I wish I may never hear of the United States again."
0:57:10 > 0:57:13And he got his wish.
0:57:13 > 0:57:17- They hang him? - No, it was worse.
0:57:17 > 0:57:23They kept him alive on an American ship. 55 years.
0:57:25 > 0:57:2955 years. He was known as the man without a country.
0:57:29 > 0:57:34Never saw his country again. Died at sea.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37What do you think of that?
0:57:42 > 0:57:45I don't know, sir. I'm a Reb.
0:57:47 > 0:57:53And I'll die a Reb, even if the North considers Lee surrendered the death of the South.
0:57:54 > 0:57:58Let's get one thing straight -
0:57:58 > 0:58:03Lee's surrender was not the death of the South.
0:58:03 > 0:58:05It was the birth of the United States.
0:58:23 > 0:58:28- What's the matter? Something wrong? - There's nothing wrong. Whoa, boy.
0:58:28 > 0:58:33- This is as far as I go, that's all. - I guess we'd better get to work.
0:58:34 > 0:58:36Stockwell. Yes, sir?
0:58:36 > 0:58:39We build here. Yes, sir.
0:58:39 > 0:58:43- You're not serious?- What's that? - Not gonna pitch that fort here?
0:58:45 > 0:58:50- This is the site they agreed on. - 'Fraid of losing your bars?- What?
0:58:50 > 0:58:57If I was running this picnic, I'd high-tail a courier back to Taylor and tell him this area stinks.
0:58:57 > 0:59:05- You're not running this picnic, so you'll take orders or clean up after the mules. Understand?- Yes, sir.
0:59:05 > 0:59:10- Order your troop to be at the disposal of the engineers.- That all?
0:59:10 > 0:59:17- No, stagger your men so some of 'em hit the grub pile while the rest work.- Is that all, sir?- That's all.
0:59:47 > 0:59:53Excuse me, sir. I think we're about ready to pull out now.
0:59:53 > 1:00:00- Oh, well...I won't say thanks. - You don't have to say thanks. Nobody's obliged anybody, sir.
1:00:00 > 1:00:05- What are you gonna do now? Go back to your Sioux village?- That's right.
1:00:05 > 1:00:10- Remember Nolan?- Yes, I don't think it hurts me the way it hurt him.
1:00:10 > 1:00:18- For your sake, I hope it doesn't. - Thank you.- You got plenty of grub? - Yes, we'll manage nicely, sir.- Good.
1:00:18 > 1:00:20Well...
1:00:20 > 1:00:23Thank you, sir.
1:00:30 > 1:00:38The wood train's been attacked. Six civilians and three troopers killed. They took Private Dean alive.
1:01:04 > 1:01:09The smoke signals that Reb sent to his brass didn't stop any sniping.
1:01:09 > 1:01:12Can you read smoke signals?
1:01:14 > 1:01:18You're playing into their hands.
1:01:27 > 1:01:30Don't use me to start a war.
1:01:33 > 1:01:36WHOOPING
1:02:10 > 1:02:15- Don't move. Don't move. - Well, what are you waiting for?
1:02:15 > 1:02:19Take your moccasins off. Come on.
1:02:19 > 1:02:22Take them off. Take them off.
1:03:15 > 1:03:21- You violated the Run. - What do you mean?- I gave him a chance to run for his life.
1:03:42 > 1:03:48A disgrace to our nation. He killed Americans inside the corridor.
1:03:48 > 1:03:52- Are they building the fort?- Yes.
1:03:52 > 1:03:57I'm assuming full responsibility for the change of area.
1:03:57 > 1:04:05If you pitch your posts here, every detail will be ambushed. You wanna build your fort or your grave?
1:04:05 > 1:04:09I'll give you five minutes to make up your mind.
1:05:29 > 1:05:33There's nothing out in front, sir. It's all clear.
1:05:33 > 1:05:38- Tell them to push forward another five miles.- Yes, sir.
1:05:39 > 1:05:42Let's go!
1:06:36 > 1:06:43- I don't know why they all agreed. - It was always their plan.- What plan? - To starve us to death.
1:06:43 > 1:06:50You think that killing them will solve everything? It'll warn all the others.
1:06:50 > 1:06:53And you? What do you think?
1:06:53 > 1:06:58Would you kill the Americans if we should go into battle?
1:06:58 > 1:07:05- Well, they're in our meat country. They've gotta be stopped. - Yes, but would you kill them?
1:07:05 > 1:07:08- I'm a Sioux.- Are you?
1:07:14 > 1:07:19I demand to lead the first attack against them.
1:07:24 > 1:07:29You are a man of two countries, but you can't kill Americans.
1:07:29 > 1:07:34If you kill or do not kill, you will always be unhappy as a Sioux.
1:07:34 > 1:07:38A man must choose to live with his conscience.
1:07:43 > 1:07:48In my heart you were never a Sioux. To all of us you were never a Sioux.
1:07:48 > 1:07:53- I was accepted as one. - But never tested as one.
1:07:53 > 1:07:58You were born an American and what you were born you will die.
1:07:58 > 1:08:00I'll die a Sioux.
1:08:08 > 1:08:15- You'll never get Captain's bars looking for a scrap. - Never get 'em dodging one.
1:08:15 > 1:08:20They must've had a good reason for holding you down to one bar.
1:08:20 > 1:08:27Should have my own regiment. The brass don't agree. I'll put myself in for Captain.
1:08:57 > 1:09:01Three sides natural protection.
1:09:01 > 1:09:06One way to attack and we'll cover that so well a division of Sioux...
1:09:06 > 1:09:13- It's outside the corridor. - Perfect observation. We passed water and timber you could spit at.
1:09:13 > 1:09:19- What happens when Taylor hears? - No, I'll come up fine in this.
1:09:19 > 1:09:23You know why? Because what I'm doing is right.
1:09:23 > 1:09:31Find your best defensive position, keep your troops in one fat piece. That's how this side will pay off.
1:10:56 > 1:10:59That Johnny Reb's coming back again.
1:11:00 > 1:11:03- Is he alone?- Yes, sir.
1:11:03 > 1:11:04Stockwell.
1:11:44 > 1:11:48You've got five minutes to surrender Fort Lincoln to the Sioux nation.
1:11:48 > 1:11:56- Hey, Trigger, you see any Sioux? - No, sir.- My look-out sees nothing.
1:11:56 > 1:11:59When you can't see 'em, that's when you're looking at 'em.
1:11:59 > 1:12:03- You got brass for a Johnny Reb. - I'm a Sioux.
1:12:03 > 1:12:08- What happens if we surrender? - You'll be escorted to Col Taylor.
1:12:08 > 1:12:13- Maybe you want my trumpeter to play "Dixie"(!)- This ain't operatics.
1:12:13 > 1:12:20- Four minutes to strike your flag. - Not for an enemy nor a rebel.
1:12:20 > 1:12:26- Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it. - Give your men a chance!
1:12:26 > 1:12:31I'll give you the same chance Grant gave Lee. You've got 60 seconds to ride out of rifle range.
1:12:38 > 1:12:41There's two men you can listen to.
1:12:41 > 1:12:45One is me and the other is Driscoll.
1:12:45 > 1:12:50You listen to me and I say move out now if you want to save your scalp.
1:12:50 > 1:12:55Listen to Driscoll and we'll have your scalps in our beds by tomorrow.
1:12:55 > 1:13:00- He came under a flag of truce. - Hang him.- For what?- For treason.
1:13:15 > 1:13:18Look-out for the outpost is dead!
1:13:18 > 1:13:20Give me a hand!
1:14:02 > 1:14:05WHOOPING
1:18:24 > 1:18:29For violating the Run, I saved your life for this ceremony.
1:19:23 > 1:19:27A Sioux can watch an American skinned alive.
1:19:27 > 1:19:35- An American cannot watch.- They had a right, but not like that. Someone had to be an executioner.- "They"?
1:19:35 > 1:19:41You didn't say "we" had a right to his life. This is your flag.
1:19:41 > 1:19:47- That is not my flag. - Is your tribe in this flag? Is it?
1:19:49 > 1:19:51Yes.
1:19:55 > 1:19:57Then it's your flag.
1:21:32 > 1:21:40"Lee's surrender was not the death of the South. It was the birth of the United States."
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