By days end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead...

This biography of one of the most charismatic and contradictory American leaders of the 19th century takes viewers on a journey from Custer's memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg that turned the tide of the battle, to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept plains of the west. General George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and the battle of the Little Big Horn...one of the most iconic events in American history...American Experience...7pm