The Donner Party (2009)

Directors

Terrence Martin

The story

The film opens with text explaining who the Donner Party was and how they ended up in the terrible situation of passing the cutoff. It then proceeds to a dramatization largely following the exploits of main character William Foster (Crispin Glover) during the attempt to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains and his group that would be later known as "The Forlorn Hope" whilst seeking rescue for the broader Donner Party (the film chooses to focus on a select few characters, while in the real-life background the Donner-Reed Party consisted of a fairly large group of multiple families). The film takes several artistic liberties with the true…

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