Heaven's Gate: Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love, Ella Watson. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to build new lives on the American frontier, which culminates in a brutal pitched battle.

Starring:

Al Nazario Hunter, Anatoli Davydov, Anna Levine, Brad Dourif, Bruce Morgan, Caroline Kava, Christopher Walken, David Lewis, David S Cass Sr, Gabriel Walsh, Geoffrey Lewis, Isabelle Huppert, Jack Blessing, Jack Conley, Jarlath Conroy, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Joseph Cotten, Judi Trott, Juli Erickson, Kai Wulff, Kris Kristofferson, Loyd Catlett, Mady Kapl

Genre:

Drama, Western, History