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Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The North American Apache tribes were remarkably successful, beating opponents who were wealthier, better armed, and more organized. Apache warriors gained an unrivalled reputation as fighters who used the landscape itself to help defeat outsiders. Historians explore two important battles to try and uncover the secrets of their success. Archaeologists and forensic scientists investigate and compare the weapons used by the Apache and their last enemy,...
Publisher
Timeless Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A gang of gold-hungry cowboys slaughters a small band of Apaches. During the massacre, an Indian woman promises to lead them to a hidden gold mine if they will spare her life. As they journey to the mine, they are pursued by the only surviving Apache warrior. They soon discover that Apache revenge is painful, slow and fatal.
This 1970 feature, directed by Jack Starrett, tells the story of an Apache man who seeks a violent revenge for the murder and...
4) Hombre
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
5) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Descendants of legendary Native American leader Geronimo tell the story of a half-century of war, displacement, confinement, and finally resistance that ended with the decimation of the Chiricahua Apaches and the loss of their traditional homeland in the Southwest. Geronimo is revealed as a shrewd leader, formidable fighter, and poetic shaman--dedicated to a crusade to keep his ancestral land, repeatedly defying and eluding federal authorities. When...
8) Major Dundee
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A Union major late in the Civil War takes it upon himself to punish a band of Apaches who murdered a ranch family and fled into Mexico. Being short of troops he uses Confederate prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals to accomplish his goal.
9) Rio Grande
Series
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Language
English
Description
A Cavalry unit on the Mexican border in the 1880s conducts a campaign against marauding Indians.
Publisher
TGG Direct
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Way west: Story of a U.S. senator and his wagon train journey from Independence, Missouri along the Oregon Trail to the Northwest Territories.
Escort west: Lassiter is a former officer in the Confederate Army of the Civil War. As he travels westward with his daughter, he meets two distraught women who have just survived a violent assault by Native Americans. As he attempts to guide them safely to their ultimate destinations, more trouble ensues,...
11) Apache
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of Massai, the last of the fierce Apache warriors, and his single-handed, bloody war against the entire U.S. Army. The former pacifist learns "might makes right" from the oppressive soldiers, and seeks to defend the rights of his tribe after the 1886 humiliating surrender by their chief Geronimo.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a Texas train: A former Texas Ranger is forced out of retirement when a criminal from his past evens the score. The decoy: Deputy John Cooper is ordered to escort the man accused of murdering his in-laws to be hanged, and he struggles with his duty as a lawman and his desire to exact revenge. The desert trail: A rodeo performer and his partner are accused of a holdup and murder. They roam the countryside as fugitives in order to track down...
13) Apache 8
Publisher
Distributed by VisonMaker
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Documentary about an all-women wildland firefighter crew from the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
14) Broken arrow
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The year is 1870, and former Union soldier Tom Jeffords is recruited to remove a tribe of Apache warriors from a U.S. Mail delivery route by any means necessary. Jeffords chooses peace instead of more killings and decides to learn the Apache way of life. He agrees to a peace treaty with Apache chief Cochise and marries a beautiful Native American woman. Tragedy strikes after the settlers break the peace treaty, but now it's Cochise trying to stop...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
16) Broken arrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
18) Chato's land
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A half-breed Apache kills in self defense and then finds himself on the run from a posse determined to see him hang.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native people. Contrary to stereotype, American Indians were not simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land. They were, like all people, an amalgam: charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction...
20) War collection
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The eagle and the hawk : World War I drama about rival pilots with opposing codes of honor and a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.
The last outpost : World War I drama about a British prisoner of war who is rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson.
Wake Island : Based on the true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
Bengal...