本片改编自美国作家库柏“皮袜子”系列小说中的第二部。1757年七年战争期间，英法两军在北美殖民地激战正酣。军官邓肯带队护送长官之女可娜（Madeleine Stowe 饰）前往威廉亨利堡，半路遭法属印第安人埋伏，莫希干族最后的战士——金卡加（Russell Means 饰）、安卡斯父子与白人霍克依（Daniel Day-Lewis 饰）出手相救。但抵达要塞时他们发现这里已陷入战火，要塞长官门罗与邓肯做事强硬，不肯放走民兵自降战力，并将霍克依监禁，可娜这时已同霍克依相恋，但却无力援救。英军战事不利弃堡投降，印第安人马瓜带领族人向英军寻仇，可娜与霍克依失散后被马瓜带走，霍克依、金卡加、安卡斯一行进入马瓜族人的营地，以期带回可娜。
Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War. The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through North America as a "passage" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. One of the earlier series telecast in color, Northwest Passage aired new episodes on NBC from September 14, 1958, to March 13, 1959. Keith Larsen played the lead role; Buddy Ebsen, later the star of CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, appeared as Sergeant Hunk Marriner, and Don Burnett co-starred as Ensign Langdon Towne.
This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.
