Children of the Dust

Feb 26, 1995 (en) Western, Drama [240] Min
  • First Air Date
    Feb 26, 1995
  • Production
    Vidmark Entertainment, The Königsberg Company
  • Rotten tomato
    68%
  • Original title
    Children of the Dust
  • Release
    Feb 26, 1995
  • en
    -

Overview

Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Harold Lee Tichenor

    Producer

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Casts

  1. Sidney Poitier

    Gypsy Smith

  2. Michael Moriarty

    John Maxwell

  3. Farrah Fawcett

    Nora Maxwell

  4. Katharine Isabelle

    Young Rachel

  5. Joanna Going

    Rachel

  6. Billy Wirth

    Corby/White Wolf

  7. Regina Taylor

    Drusilla

  8. Robert Guillaume

    Mossburger

  9. Jim Caviezel

    Dexter

  10. John Pyper-Ferguson

    Sonny Boy

  11. Grace Zabriskie

    Rose

  12. Byron Chief-Moon

    Chief Walks-The-Clouds

  13. Shirley Knight

    Aunt Bertha

  14. Basil Wallace

    Fulton

  15. Kevin McNulty

    Sheriff Harriman

  16. Mitchell LaPlante

    Young Corby

  17. Zachary Savard

    Young Dexter

  18. Jesse Lipscombe

    Clarence

  19. Lindsey Campbell

    Miranda

  20. Brent Stait

    Ballenger

  21. Charles Andre

    Nez

  22. Eric Keenleyside

    Boss Beeson

  23. Tom Schanley

    Cavalry Office

  24. Brian Jensen

    Lieutenant

  25. Dale Wilson

    Renfro

  26. Michael Elias

    Reporter

  27. Crystal Verge

    Mrs. Tibbens

  28. Donna Belleville

    Mrs. Clarksdale

  29. Michelle Thrush

    Rainbow Woman

  30. Edward C. K. Richardson III

    Charlie

  31. Joshua Myers

    Rachel's Child

  32. Hart Bochner

    Shelby Hornbeck

  33. Jack Ackroyd

    Farmer Tully

  34. Wilma Pelly

    Nita

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 34 / Crews : 12

Season 1 ( 1995-02-26)

Children of the Dust is an American Western television miniseries, based on Clancy Carlile's novel of the same name. Featuring an ensemble cast led by Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier, Children of the Dust was originally broadcast by CBS on February 26 and 28, 1995.

Episode 1

Episode: 1

Episode 2

Episode: 2
Feb 26, 1995 (en)
Western, Drama
[240] Min
  • First Air Date Feb 26, 1995
  • Production
    Vidmark Entertainment, The Königsberg Company
  • Rotten tomato 68%
Original Title Children of the Dust
en

Overview

Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Harold Lee Tichenor

    Producer