screenshots / Crazy Horse / 1996 Turner Pictures
Starring Michael Greyeyes in the title role the film also featured August Schellenberg (DreamKeeper, The New World) and Wes Studi (Comanche Moon, The Last of the Mohicans).
Actor Nathaniel Arcand (Little Hawk) later screen roles included 2005's Into the West (S1.E3) and the 2007 film Pathfinder.
Other screen appearances of Michael Greyeyes include Geronimo (1993), Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997), Saints & Strangers (2015), and Woman Walks Ahead (2017).
Cast as Sitting Bull, August Schellenberg previously played the role in a 1973 episode of the series Witness to Yesterday, and would do so yet again in 2007's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Actor Larry Sellers (Spotted Tail) may be best remembered for his role as Cloud Dancing on the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998), on which Michael Greyeyes made an appearance (S5.E25, S5.E26).
Filmed in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the film was orginally broadcast July 7, 1996 as part of the Native Americans series of "historically accurate telepics" on Turner Network Television (TNT).
August Schellenberg passed in 2013 at the age of 77.
Larry Sellers passed in 2021 at the age of 72.