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Cast & Crew

Doug Glover
Director
Powers Boothe
As Narrator
Darby Hinton
As George Donner
Kim Lankford
As Tamsen Donner
Gabrielle Burton
As Commentator (Author)
Greg Webb
As William Foster
Libby Baker
As Margaret Reed
David White
As William Eddy

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In 1846, the Donner Party set out to California in search of a better life, but their dreams quickly turned into a nightmare. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by harsh weather conditions, the group of nearly 80 settlers struggled to survive with little food or shelter. As the months passed, the situation became dire, and some resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Through a combination of first-person narratives, reenactments, expert interviews, and archival materials, "Dead of Winter: The Donner Party" tells the harrowing tale of a group of people pushed to the limits of human endurance.

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