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The New World
Why this pick
A meditative colonial frontier epic with ravishing natural imagery, cross-cultural encounter, and the same elegiac awareness that a way of life is being overtaken.
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MOVIE1990 3h 1m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1863, as settlers begin their journey west into Native American lands, a Union Army Civil War officer with a traumatic past who is eager to experience the "last frontier" before it vanishes, finds himself trapped between two worlds.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rodney A. Grant
Wind In His Hair
Robert Pastorelli
Timmons
Tom Everett
Sergeant Pepper
Larry Joshua
Sergeant Bauer
Wayne Grace
Major
Donald Hotton
General Tide
Steve Reevis
Sioux #1 / Warrior #1
Wes Studi
Toughest Pawnee