The Last of the Mohicans

Based on the novel by James Fennimore Cooper, this movie is classified as an (a) Action/Drama/historical/War film Directed by Michael Mann and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. It was released to theatres in 1992 and on videorecording in 1993.

Genre: Adventure / Romance / War (more)

Tagline: The first American hero.

Plot Outline: Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War. British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from various native American war parties. The British troops enlist the help of local colonial militia men, who are reluctant to leave their homes undefended. A budding romance between a British officer's daughter and an independent man who was reared as a Mohawk complicates things for the British officer, as the adopted Mohawk pursues his own agenda despite the wrath of different people on both sides of the conflict.

Character Overview

	Daniel Day-Lewis	....	Hawkeye (Nathaniel Poe)
	Madeleine Stowe	....	Cora Munro
	Russell Means	....	Chingachgook
	Eric Schweig	....	Uncas
	Jodhi May	....	Alice Munro
	Steven Waddington	....	Maj. Duncan Heyward
	Wes Studi	....	Magua
	Maurice Roëves	....	Col. Edmund Munro
	Patrice Chéreau	....	Gen Montcalm
	Edward Blatchford	....	Jack Winthrop
	Terry Kinney	....	John Cameron
	Tracey Ellis	....	Alexandra Cameron
	Justin M. Rice	....	James Cameron
	Dennis Banks	....	Ongewasgone
	Pete Postlethwaite	....	Capt. Beams

General Webb Head of English battalion at Fort Edward

Native American Tribes and their connection to the film

Mohican The dying tribe of three: Chinkachgook, Hawkeye, and Uncas (not aligned to either the English or the French forces)

Mohawk Allied to the English forces

Ottowa Allied to the French forces

Huron A non-waring tribe from not allied with either forces