Drama · History
September Dawn
The untold story of an American tragedy.
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
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Top Cast
Jon Voight
Jacob Samuelson
Tamara Hope
Emily Hudson
Trent Ford
Jonathan Samuelson
Lolita Davidovich
Nancy Dunlap
Dean Cain
Joseph Smith
Terence Stamp
Brigham Young
Shaun Johnston
Captain Fancher
Franklin E. Levinson
Captain Baker
Directed by
Christopher Cain
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Wuchak
8/1012/20/2021
_**A story that had to be told and needs to be known**_ "September Dawn" (2007) is a powerful and unforgettable film. It details the long covered-up massacre at Mountain Meadows, Utah, on September 7-11, 1857, where a group of Mormons murdered well over a hundred settlers traveling from Arkansas to California. The settlers stopped in southwest Utah to rest and resupply and the Mormons who lived there graciously allowed it. Unfortunately, in the ensuing days the decision was made to slaughter the settlers, likely due to paranoia over the brief "Utah War" that was going on at the time (between the Feds and the Mormon settlers in Utah) and also because of the Mormons' severe persecutions back East in the 1830s-40s, which provoked them to seek sanctuary in Utah in 1847. Brigham Young was
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