One of the most shocking chapters in our nation's history comes to television in a powerful film that will amaze and enlighten. Buffalo Soldiers tells the little-known story of the great black cavalry units who served bravely in the post-Civil War West. Executive producer Danny Glover leads an incomparable cast, including Carl Lumbly, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Warren and Timothy Busfield. The telefilm, directed by Charles Haid and written by Frank Military and Susan Rhinehart, is an unforgettable look at the heroic men whose courage, integrity and dignity were put to the ultimate test. 

The Soldiers served at Wounded Knee and with Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba, fought Crazy Horse, helped capture Geronimo and Billy the Kid and strung thousands of miles of telegraph across the West. Buffalo Soldiers follows their campaign against the Apache war chief Victorio. Glover stars as US Calvary Sergeant Washington Wyatt, a courageous and reticent man leading his soldiers, knowing that his superiors at Fort Craig in the New Mexico Territory cast aspersions on his leadership abilities. At his side is Corporal William Christy (Mykelti Williamson) and Corporal Eddie Tockes (Michael Warren). Traveling with the Buffalo Soldiers is the enigmatic John Horse, the half-black, half-Seminole who questions his loyalty to the white officers (some of whom are former slave holders). And joining them, reluctantly, is the white officer Major Robert Carr (Timothy Busfield), who resents being put in charge of blacks. 

The Soldiers' ranks are constantly devastated, as the Apaches—man, woman and child—are willing to die rather than reveal the whereabouts of their elusive leader. All of these emotions will come into play when Wyatt and the Buffalo Soldiers finally come face-to-face with Victorio at Rattlesnake Springs. 

Our own "Barry Tompkins" both acted in this movie and provided technical assistance in horsemanship during the filming of "The Buffalo Soldiers."