s="h3color tiny">This review is from: Biography - George Custer: Showdown At Little Big Horn (DVD)

This DVD's great glory is its color "footage" of battlefield terrain at the Little Bighorn battlefield.This DVD's battlefield footage provides an impression of the "deceptive" rolling terrain, covered in "buffalo" grass, in which infiltrating Indian warriors concealed themselves - key elements in the rapid collapse of Custer's battalion.From an academic perspective, a "fault" in this DVD is the artistic "license" this DVD often takes, to create dramatic effect. This seriously impairs its credibility, with the result that a viewer never knows whether assertions made are accurate or not. This type of "fault" is generic in most "Hollywood" "historical" films. However, this DVD is presented as an academic production, not as a "Hollywood" production.A "dramatic effects" theme this DVD initially takes, as a premise, is the supposed great mystery of the diametric views of Custer's true character. A number of statements made are either presumptuous,...Read more