Little Big Man (1970)
Directed by Arthur Penn

Film Synopsis

121-year-old Jack Crabb is the sole survivor of the Little Big Horn massacre.  Telling his life story to a journalist, he recalls how, at the age of ten, he was received into the company of the Cheyennes.  A few years later, he proved his courage by saving the life of an Indian, and this earned him his nickname, the Little Big Man.  The Cheyennes were a proud and fearsome race, but they were no match for the white men, who ruthlessly attacked them on their own territory and slaughtered them without mercy or conscience.  Adopted by a kindly pastor and his wife, Jack then began to see the world from the white man's perspective.  As he moved back and forth between the North American natives and European settlers, Jack found it impossible to reconcile his feelings for the two cultures.  It was with ineffable sorrow that he watched one race being systematically decimated by the other...