Films at the National Archives in June Washington, DC . . . Frontiers in History, and the United States Film Service. The screenings will be held in Room 105 of the National Archives Building, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets, NW, and in the auditorium at the National Archives at College Park, located at 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD unless otherwise noted.
All programs are free and open to the public.
Free parking is available at the National Archives at College Park. Of all the 19th-century pioneer stories, none exerts such a powerful hold on the American imagination as the tale of the Donner Party in the high Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846. The excursion became a terrifying tale of misery, death, madness, and cannibalism. Through family journals, newspaper accounts, and interviews with historians and descendants of the party, this film re-creates the Donner Party's now legendary journey. A film by Ric Burns.