• Director: Elliot Silverstein
  • Release Year: 1970
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English, Sioux
  • Run Time: 114 minutes

A Man Called Horse

Description

After years of enslavement by a band of Lakota, an English aristocrat realizes that his only chance of freedom is to adopt the ways of his captors—but freedom is not the same as escape. If he becomes civilized according to Lakota culture, enough so that he can move freely among them, will that render him unfit for England and her idea of "civilized" life if he should ever have the chance to return?

Themes

Native Americans, Lakota, Indigenous peoples, Cross-cultural interactions, Cultural adaptation, Cultural appropriation, Victorian society, Communities, Imperialism, Race relations, Slavery and abolition, Film history