Le film est inspiré d'une attaque criminelle du lieutenant-colonel Custer qui a pris l'initiative d'une attaque surprise d'un campement indien
En 1876, Sitting Bull et les Sioux infligent une cuisante défaite au général Custer à Little Bighorn. Retour sur une bataille mythique qui a façonné l’identité américaine.
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.