Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.
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Cast
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Robert Fuller
James Reed![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9Q3jx6G6gaobkiW7934C4SvVE8C.jpg)
Andrew Prine
Lewis Keyser![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/dFoGc7I1u7Hnd8qI3WGA4VKeroG.jpg)
Michael Callan
William Eddy![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/1FmUJDzGkr74wmBYRdmI4NfDHGM.jpg)
Diane McBain
Margaret Reed![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/wcliAvgKHkwUmxkMUIGETp9tk1d.jpg)
John Anderson
Patrick Breen![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xwSggqoVJTnipwaMsbIGz1J37sp.jpg)
John Doucette
George Donner![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/bRJevXNNn4ioryElqjVFjD5lxri.jpg)
Cindy Eilbacher
Mary Graves![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nDZwO90amUQmSD5IP8l340bi0gW.jpg)
Royal Dano
Sutter![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tOKACaAYyPjNcVbHGIKhZwJ4wB8.jpg)
Gregory Walcott
Will Mckutcheon![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/dQOCLWXsB1VKFtg4TZqC9QCxpLJ.jpg)
Lance LeGault
Charles Stanton![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ctpL0dPAv6n9ArbWRK1Cet0wvqk.jpg)
Whit Bissell
Uncle Billy Graves![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/3PTICRoRcTsyk3cuNmKL5hSVkwQ.jpg)
Peggy Stewart
Mrs. Breen![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uyBspmHZLmrLKCX1KobVWUapU86.jpg)
Reid Cruickshanks
John Synder![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vRQlf0nANkObtSo9WeVrjlAjE66.jpg)
Robert Carricart
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George Barrows
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Richard Jury
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Jorge Moreno