The Donner Party

Year: 1992

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: English

Director: Ric Burns

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The doomed 1846 attempt to reach California, the Donner Party’s nightmarish trek, became a story of death, endurance and survival. It pierced the core of American Dream during the nation’s manifest‑destiny era, reflecting powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, and remains one of the West’s compelling and enduring episodes.

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