Descriptions:
Academy Award winner Jon Voight (Best Actor, COOMING HOME, 1978), Terence Stamp and Trent Ford star in the true story of the unreslved Mountain Meadows Massacre - the brutal murder of 120 men, women and children on September 11, 1857, as their wagon train was on its way to California Set against the beauty of the Utah mountains, SEPTEMBER DAWN explores what might have happened that ill fated day when the settlers stopped to rest before completing the last leg of their journey. Local Mormon bishop Jacob Samuelson (Voight) is suspicious of the group, so he dispatches his eldest son Jonathan (Ford) to spy on them. Jonathan soon falls in love with a member of the wagon train, the minister's daughter Emily (Tamara Hope), and is horrified that his father thinks the settlers are enemies of the chirch and is planning an attack on them. While planning his escape with Emily, his father sets in motion a chain of events which culminates in a violent and tragic ambush.
Special Features:
- True Events: A Historical Perspective
- Descendants: Remembering the Tragedy
