The Last of the Mohicans

In 1757, on the banks of the Hudson River, French and English troops fight for control of the region. The English recruit the farmers settled on those lands to form an army capable of facing the French-Indian forces. Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a white man adopted by the Mohican Indians who lives with his father (Russell Means) and his brother Uncas (Eric Schweig). After rescuing Cora Munro (Madeleine Stowe) and her younger sister Alice (Jodhi May), daughters of a British officer, from an ambush by the Huron, the three decide to escort them to the English fort William Henry, which is under siege by French and Huron forces. There they are forced to stay with a group of British soldiers who have just arrived from the colonies…