Watch The Donner Party: A Film by Ric Burns
- 1992
- 1 hr 30 min
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8.2 (459)
Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them as they became victims of madness, death and cannibalism.