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The Last of the Mohicans

Last of the Mohicans starring Daniel Day Lewis is one of my favorite movies. It is an epic tale of romance, desperate danger and hopeful courage. It also has a good soundtrack. It works for me on just about every level. It is also a fantastic story about cross cultural mission There is war on the forntier. Britain and France are fighting for control of North America. Native American tribes are taking sides in the conflict. Britain is demanding that the colonists from Great Britain muster militias to serve alongside the British regular army. Tumult and murder are everywhere. A veritable whirlwind of chaos and violence is howling through everyone's life. A Mohican man and his two sons, one of them a white man raised by his Mohican family, rescue 2 daughters of a British colonel and their British escort from certain death. The Mohicans finally promise to take them to the local British fort. On the way, they stop at a colonists friend's  homestead and discover that they are all