The Last of the Mohicans was released in 1992 as Michael Mann’s ambitious adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel about life on the American frontier during the French and Indian War. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the frontiersman Hawkeye and Madeleine Stowe as British officer’s daughter Cora Munro, the film combined sweeping romance with brutal period warfare and has gone on to be regarded as one of the finest historical epics of its era. The production was an enormous undertaking, from recreating 18th century frontier life in the forests of North Carolina to the extraordinary lengths its cast and crew went to in pursuit of authenticity. We’re telling that behind the scenes story now with 40 facts about The Last of the Mohicans. You can also hear us discuss the film on our podcast, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website.

1. The story had been adapted many times before

Before Michael Mann’s 1992 version, James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel had already been adapted for the screen ten times. The first was a silent film in 1909, directed by D.W. Griffith (a pioneering but controversial filmmaker best known for The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Two more silent adaptations followed in 1911 and 1920. Between 1920 and Mann’s film, there were seven other versions, the most well known of which arrived in 1936. That version was directed by George B. Seitz and starred Randolph Scott (who would go on to become a popular Western star in the 1940s) as Hawkeye. In the 1970s, Columbia Pictures approached Lindsay Anderson, the British director known for the boarding school satire If…. (1968), about making a modern adaptation. Anderson wasn’t interested and suggested adapting Arnold Bennett’s 1902 novel The Grand Babylon Hotel instead. Neither project was ever made.

2. A childhood memory planted the seed

Mann said he first saw the 1936 version of The Last of the Mohicans when he was just three years old, and the story stayed with him for four decades. He eventually decided that there hadn’t been a truly great historical epic movie made in a long time, and that the story was an important part of his creative identity. Mann bought the rights to Fenimore Cooper’s novel in 1988 and developed the project on and off over the next few years before pitching it to Morgan Creek Productions and 20th Century Fox. The studios liked the idea and had faith in Mann, partly on the strength of his earlier thriller Manhunter (1986), and partly because they believed his filmmaking sensibilities would help adapt the story for a modern audience. Also, the enormous recent success of Kevin Costner’s frontier epic Dances with Wolves (1990), which won seven Oscars including Best Picture, almost certainly made the pitch an easier sell.

3. Mann cast his lead after watching one performance

Mann said he knew he wanted Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye after seeing him in drama My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989), for which Day-Lewis won his first Best Actor Oscar. Mann knew the actor playing Hawkeye would need to commit to an intensive training regime, and Day-Lewis’s performance as Brown demonstrated his ability to inhabit a role completely. Day-Lewis wasn’t keen on the part at first, but changed his mind after reading Mann’s script. He said the deer hunt opening sequence drew him in and convinced him to sign on. Day-Lewis later revealed that he deliberately didn’t read the novel until after he’d committed to the film, which he said was fortunate: in Cooper’s original text, Hawkeye frequently and proudly boasts about his lack of Native American blood, a trait Day-Lewis found off-putting.

4. Day-Lewis went to extremes in preparation

Daniel Day-Lewis is well known for going to extraordinary lengths for his roles, and The Last of the Mohicans was no exception. He went through extensive weapons training, starting with modern firearms and working backwards to period-accurate muskets. He also lived in the forests of North Carolina for several months before shooting began, hunting and fishing and living off the land. Mann later said that if Day-Lewis didn’t shoot or trap anything on a given day, he simply didn’t eat.

One specific skill Day-Lewis trained in was firing and reloading a flintlock rifle while running. He was taught this by a historical re-enactor called Mark Baker. This was a technique that real frontiersmen in the 18th century had to train specifically to master, as it was extremely difficult. We see Hawkeye do it in the film’s opening deer hunt sequence. At the time the film was made, it was said that only three people in the world were capable of reloading a flintlock rifle while running, and Daniel Day-Lewis was one of them.

5. Day-Lewis never broke character

The film’s casting director, Bonnie Timmermann, said that whether Day-Lewis was running, eating, or relaxing between takes, it didn’t matter: he was always in character as Hawkeye. After the shoot wrapped, Day-Lewis said he had a difficult time shaking the role and suffered hallucinations and claustrophobia because he was no longer accustomed to being indoors. This is one of the reasons he typically only made one film every few years: the preparation, and then the process of de-acclimatising afterwards, often took longer than the shoot itself.

6. Several major stars turned down the female lead

The casting of Madeleine Stowe as Cora Munro wasn’t a formality. Some significant names were considered for the role: Andie MacDowell was one contender, and Kim Raver screen tested. Two even bigger names, Jodie Foster and Sigourney Weaver, were both reportedly offered the part and turned it down. Stowe herself said she wasn’t initially interested in the film until Mann told her to read the script as a love story rather than an action film. She auditioned, made it through the screen testing process, and won the role. Mann said she embodied the intelligence and passion he wanted for the character. Stowe also had a connection to the source material: in 1978, she had appeared in a television movie called The Deerslayer, which is based on another James Fenimore Cooper novel about Hawkeye. She said that experience gave her a prior understanding of the world going into auditions.

7. The two leads kept their motivations secret

Stowe said she deliberately didn’t tell Daniel Day-Lewis why she believed Cora fell in love with Hawkeye, and asked him not to tell her why Hawkeye fell for Cora. She wanted the attraction between them to feel natural and instinctive rather than something rationally planned. Despite there being very little dialogue in the film explicitly explaining the bond between them, the chemistry is entirely convincing.

Behind the scenes, Stowe and Day-Lewis got on extremely well and were often playing practical jokes on each other. It started with food fights and apparently peaked when Day-Lewis and his chauffeur staged a fake car crash that Stowe would stumble upon, with Day-Lewis covered in fake blood amid the wreckage.

8. The Grants were considered for a key role

Major Duncan Heyward, the stiff-upper-lipped British officer who serves as one of the film’s most complex characters, is played by Steven Waddington. Before Waddington was cast, though, both Richard E. Grant and Hugh Grant were considered for the part. Waddington had worked on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Mann felt he captured the British obsession with honour and duty that the character required. That RSC training is evident in Waddington’s delivery throughout the film.

9. Mann cast a real-life activist as his villain

Magua, the film’s menacing Huron antagonist driven by a thirst for vengeance, is played by Wes Studi. The success of Dances with Wolves had raised Studi’s profile: he had played a supporting antagonist in Costner’s film. Mann wanted somebody who could speak the Huron language believably and had Studi audition. He won the role, and Mann later cast him again in Heat (1995) as one of the LAPD detectives.

Studi had actually been an American Indian activist before turning to acting. He was involved in the 1973 Wounded Knee incident, a 71-day occupation of the town of Wounded Knee in South Dakota by the American Indian Movement in protest at civil rights violations against Native Americans, and was arrested during the standoff. Studi didn’t turn to acting until the late 1980s, and in total, Mann hired approximately 900 Native American actors from across the United States to play extras in the film.

10. A famous 18th century painting inspired Magua’s look

One notable detail about Magua’s appearance is that his distinctive face tattoo wasn’t an original design created for the film. It was based on The Death of General Wolfe, a famous 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. The painting depicts the death of a British general at the 1759 Battle of Quebec, and features an Iroquois warrior watching him die. That warrior’s face markings are the same as those worn by Magua in the film.

11. The cast went through months of military training

Mann’s commitment to authenticity extended well beyond the principal cast. The main actors and extras who played British soldiers were all trained in historic military combat for three months. They were trained by Dale Dye, a retired U.S. Marine Captain who had become Hollywood’s go-to military adviser, having previously worked on Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and Casualties of War (1989). Some of the cast and crew also spent a month living in the North Carolina woods before shooting began to acclimatise to the frontier environment.

12. Day-Lewis learned a very specific hunting skill

In preparation for the deer hunt scene that opens the film, Daniel Day-Lewis learned how to hunt and track deer. He became so proficient that he could identify from a set of tracks how long it had been since a deer had left a footprint, allowing him to determine whether the animal was still in the area. He didn’t kill any deer but would track them through the forest as part of his immersion in the character.

13. Mann approached actors because of their activism

Chingachgook (the Mohican of the title) and his son Uncas are played by Russell Means and Eric Schweig. Schweig was a Canadian actor who had played Native American roles before and won the part through audition. Means, however, was not an actor. He was best known as the director of the American Indian Movement and in 1973 was a central figure in the Wounded Knee Occupation, where the movement occupied the town for 71 days in protest at civil rights violations against Native Americans. Mann knew Means from this incident and approached him about playing Chingachgook, and Means said what drew him to the film was that it depicted natives and non-natives interacting and living together as an integrated community.

Also, Dennis Banks, who plays the Huron tribal leader Ongewasgone towards the end of the film, was also known to Mann from the Wounded Knee incident.

14. A sporting scene carried a deeper meaning

After the meal at the Cameron family’s cabin early in the film, we see Hawkeye, some Native Americans and a few white settlers playing lacrosse together. This was historically accurate: lacrosse was a sport invented by Native American tribes in the 12th century, and tribes were still playing it in the 18th century – they called it ‘The Creator’s Game.’ Beyond the historical detail, the scene carries a visual message: it shows the blend of cultures happening on the frontier. Mann was signalling to his audience that this wasn’t going to be a simple cowboys-and-Indians story.

15. The ambush tactics were based on real warfare

The Huron ambush of the British column in the forest isn’t based on a specific historical event, but the tactics depicted are rooted in reality. Native American war parties would tend to attack British columns in areas of dense forestry, where the rigid European formation fighting, with soldiers arranged in columns and ranks, would be far less effective. In the film, the British soldiers don’t stand a chance. They’re fighting by European rules in terrain that renders those rules useless.

16. North Carolina stood in for 18th century New York

The film is set in Albany, New York, but Mann decided to shoot in North Carolina instead as he felt the woods there looked more like the Adirondack forests did in the 18th century than modern-day New York. And the red-brick bridge we see the British soldiers cross over in the first act is the Bass Pond Bridge on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, which was built in 1893.

17. Mann’s perfectionism pushed the production back

The director already had a reputation as a meticulous filmmaker, and that trait was on full display during the shoot. Apparently every scene required at least 20 takes before Mann was satisfied, meaning the production quickly fell behind schedule. Fox became concerned enough to send an executive to the set whose job was essentially to say ‘that’s enough, Michael, move on’ after a certain number of takes. The release was delayed from its original summer 1992 date to September of that year, suggesting the studio’s concerns about the schedule were well founded.

18. Specialist craftspeople made every weapon

The period weapons used in the film were all made by specialists. The tomahawks and knives were custom made for each character by two expert bladesmiths called Daniel Winkler and Randall King – Magua’s tomahawk was an exact replica of one found in the French and Indian War museum in New York. Meanwhile, the firearms were created by three American gunsmiths: Herschel and Frank House, Davide Pedersoli, and Wayne Watson. Between them, they made over 400 muskets for the production with Hawkeye’s rifle, known as the Killdeer, being a particularly beautiful prop.

One subtle detail worth noting: there are no American accents in the entire film. This is because in 1757, those accents didn’t exist yet.

19. The first costume designer walked off the production

The original costume designer was James Acheson, a three-time Oscar winner known for his work on The Last Emperor (1987). He left the production early on when he clashed with Mann’s hands-on directorial style and replaced by Elsa Zamparelli, who took on the enormous task of dressing approximately 800 cast members across Mohicans, Hurons, French and British characters. Zamparelli and her team researched period clothing, historic documents, and paintings from museum collections and based their designs on that research.

Day-Lewis later revealed a small cheat in the costuming. While the cast wore period-accurate moccasins on the outside, the soles had been adapted with modern rubber, essentially giving them the grip of a pair of trainers. It explains how Hawkeye moves through the forest with such speed.

20. The siege we see in the film really happened

The Siege of Fort William Henry that forms the most spectacular set piece of the film was a real historical event during the French and Indian War. The French forces were led by General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, who appears as a character in the film. The real siege resulted in the British surrendering the fort, and the subsequent massacre of the departing British soldiers by Huron warriors happened as well. It’s one of those details that adds weight to the film: knowing the events on screen are close to how they actually unfolded.

21. They built the fort from 250-year-old plans

The real Fort William Henry was destroyed by the French immediately after the British left in 1757, but a full-size replica had been built on the same site in the 1950s and still stands today. Mann decided this replica wasn’t suitable for filming as the surrounding area was no longer isolated enough, so the production set about building their own fort from scratch on the shore of Lake James in North Carolina. They managed to get their hands on the original plans and specifications that were drawn up for the fort in the 1750s, and based the set on those documents. The fort was built at full scale and took approximately two months to construct, using timber taken from the local forests. The set included bastions, log palisades, barracks, and a parade ground, just like the real fort. It cost $6 million to build.

22. Colonel Munro was based on a real person

The commander of Fort William Henry is played by Scottish actor Maurice Roeves. Unlike the film version, the real Munro never married and didn’t have children, and he was Irish, not Scottish. The first actor offered the part was Brian Cox, but he turned it down.

Another real detail surrounds the neat action sequence showing a courier running from the besieged fort to request reinforcements while Hawkeye covers him with his rifle. This too was based on reality: during the real siege, Munro sent three couriers to General Webb at Fort Edward asking for help. Webb sent a letter back telling Munro to surrender.

23. Mann yelled at the crew to turn off the sun

The siege sequences were shot over several nights. Mann wanted the cannon fire to be realistic and leave visible trails of smoke, so the crew painted basketballs black and fired them from the cannons to achieve the effect. There’s a well-known anecdote from the night shoots: after one long session, Mann yelled at the crew to turn out a large light that was interfering with his shot. A crew member replied, ‘That’s the sun, Michael.’

24. The surrender terms are close to what really happened

In the scene where the French and British discuss terms for the British surrender, the conditions Montcalm offers to Munro are very close to the ones given in real life. The British were allowed to march out of the fort with full honours, trooping their colours. though they weren’t allowed to keep all their weapons as shown in the film. In reality, they had one cannon and that was it. In the film, the terms are actually more generous than the historical record, with safe passage to Albany included.

25. The massacre happened, but not quite as the film depicts it

The Fort William Henry massacre is something that genuinely took place, but Mann and his team made several changes for dramatic purposes. In reality, the Hurons attacked the people at the back of the departing British column, and those at the front didn’t know what was happening until they reached Fort Edward. And an important detail to note is that when James Fenimore Cooper wrote his novel roughly 50 years after the actual events, he based his account on reports from the 1750s that had been written to sensationalise what happened and stir up resentment against the French and Hurons.

Some specifics about what the film changed: in the movie, Magua gets his revenge on Munro by cutting out his heart. In reality, Munro survived the massacre, made it to Albany, and died three months later from an epileptic seizure. The real reason the Hurons attacked the British wasn’t revenge: they were furious with the deal Montcalm struck, which prevented them from plundering the defeated British as was customary after a battle. The estimated death toll ranges widely, from around 70 to as many as 1,500 depending on which report you read. And there’s one unintentional extra in the massacre scene: a crew member holding a blue cap and screaming into a megaphone is visible in one shot. It’s reportedly Michael Waxman, the assistant director.

26. Mann built the film’s world from 18th century diaries

Mann said he read Cooper’s novel and took the major plot points and characters from it, but was more influenced by the 1936 film adaptation. He was determined to understand what life was really like in Albany, New York in the 1750s and, during his research, he came across the diary of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, a French writer and soldier who served at the real Fort William Henry siege. Mann drew heavily from this diary to create the societies and world we see on screen. He said the writing felt as though it could have been written three weeks ago, full of sarcasm and wit. Bougainville’s diaries focused in part on American colonial families living in isolation on the frontiers, which is where Mann got the idea for the Cameron family we meet early in the film. And in the film, there’s a nod to Mann’s primary source: the letter from General Webb to Colonel Munro is read out by a French officer called Capitaine de Bougainville, a direct reference to the diarist.

Mann was also influenced by the writings of Francis Parkman, a 19th century Harvard historian who wrote extensively about the French and Indian War in the 1860s. Parkman actually walked the path to Fort William Henry and met people in their seventies who had been told stories by their own parents and grandparents, providing near-firsthand accounts of the conflict.

27. The film borrowed from multiple Native American cultures

Mann’s research went beyond the Mohicans and incorporated elements from other Native American tribes, including the Iroquois. He said the Iroquois had what he described as a free love environment, and this cultural detail inspired the sequence in the film where Hawkeye and Cora share their first charged glances across the room. Mann was determined that the film would depict the complexity and variety of Native American cultures rather than treating them as a monolith.

28. There were significant changes from the novel

Mann took considerable liberties with Cooper’s source material, and several of the changes fundamentally reshape the story. In the novel, it’s Uncas, not Hawkeye, who has the relationship with Cora, though it’s handled very subtly. Mann switched this to Hawkeye, presumably because he felt Western audiences would identify more readily with the white frontiersman as a romantic lead.

Hawkeye was inspired by a real American frontiersman, Daniel Boone, which is why his given name is Nathaniel. In the book his surname is Bumppo, but Mann changed it to Poe for the film. Mann said he felt the name ‘Natty Bumppo,’ as the character is called in the novel, would have drawn laughs from the audience. At the end of the film, the Sachem, the Huron tribal leader, refers to Cora as the ‘dark child of Munro.’ In the book, this carries more weight: Cora is the daughter of Munro and a black woman, making her mixed race. And in the novel, it isn’t Hawkeye who is in love with Cora, but Magua. Heyward is an American colonist who joined the British army, and he, Munro, and Alice all survive to the end of the story, whereas all three die in the film.

29. The film’s iconic main theme came from the director’s wife

Mann hired Trevor Jones to write the score because of his reputation for composing epic, sweeping music on projects like Excalibur (1981). But the main theme, one of the most recognisable pieces of film music of the 1990s, actually came from Mann’s wife, Summer. The production was struggling to find a melody for the main theme when Summer told Mann to listen to “The Gael,” a Scottish folk piece written by musician Dougie MacLean in 1990. Mann listened to it, loved it, had the studio license the track, and gave it to Trevor Jones to adapt for the film. The fiddle playing the main melody is performed by Alasdair Fraser, a renowned Scottish musician.

When the film’s first cut came in at three hours and the release was postponed from summer to September 1992 so Mann could trim it, Jones had moved on to other commitments. Composer Randy Edelman was brought in to write some of the additional pieces Mann needed. Edelman had a reputation for working quickly. The two composers didn’t actually collaborate directly: Edelman wrote some of the more restrained pieces, including “Cora” and “The Courier,” the music that underscores the sniper sequence where Hawkeye covers the runner from the fort.

30. An Irish folk group wrote one of the film’s most memorable pieces

There’s a piece of music not composed by either Trevor Jones or Randy Edelman that plays over the montage towards the end of the film, as the Mohicans track the Huron party to rescue Cora and Alice. The song is called “I Will Find You” and it was written and recorded specifically for the film by Clannad, a contemporary Irish folk group. Clannad were already well known for writing the theme to the television drama Harry’s Game (1982) and the main theme to Robin of Sherwood (1984), a popular  UK TV series. The track’s ethereal pipe and percussion sound, while clearly more modern than the rest of the score, fits the sequence perfectly.

31. The cinematographer used period-accurate lighting

The Director of Photography was Dante Spinotti, who had shot 25 films before this and was working with Mann for the second time after Manhunter. Mann and Spinotti agreed that a subdued, monochromatic look would work best to give the film an authentic feel. They used period-accurate light sources wherever possible, lighting scenes with sunlight or torchlight when they could make it work. For the waterfall scenes, where the characters shelter behind cascading water, the crew couldn’t film under actual waterfalls. Instead, they created the effect of pounding water light by bouncing lamps off large reflective screens and then shaking the screens to simulate running water. The effect is entirely convincing.

32. Famous landscape painters shaped the visual identity

In framing the epic landscape shots that are such a defining feature of the film, Spinotti said he drew inspiration from famous American landscape painters. Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt were 19th century artists who were both part of the Hudson River School, an art movement known for its landscape painters who focused on the beauty of the American wilderness, especially the Hudson River Valley. When you look at their work, the influence on the film is obvious: the framing of shots, the colour palette, and the sense of scale all echo Cole’s and Bierstadt’s paintings. Some of the film’s wide shots look like a Thomas Cole canvas brought to life.

33. The waterfall cave was a warehouse set

The exterior waterfall scenes were filmed at Hooker Falls and Bridal Veil Falls in North Carolina, but the cave where the characters shelter was a set built inside a warehouse. This was the only interior set constructed for the entire film. The crew used recycled river water to create the falling water in front of the cave, and the real waterfall footage was enhanced with digital effects to make it look even more dramatic. It was also the last sequence shot during production.

The waterfall scene has a literary origin, too. Cooper’s original novel also features a scene set behind a waterfall, an idea which apparently came from real life: in the 1820s, Cooper took some English aristocrats on a trip around New York. They visited a waterfall cave called Glenn’s Falls, and one of the group suggested it would make a great setting for a romance novel, an idea Cooper never forgot. That person was Lord Edward Stanley, the future British Prime Minister.

34. An actress’s mother vetoed a key scene

There’s a moment under the waterfall where we see Uncas and Alice together, suggesting a budding relationship of their own. This subplot was originally intended to be more developed and a love scene was written between the two characters, but Jodhi May, who played Alice, was only 17 at the time. Her mother, who was on set, vetoed the scene. There was also a deleted scene where Uncas braids Alice’s hair, which would have helped develop their connection further. The relationship between Uncas and Alice is one of the more underserved threads in the finished film.

35. Mann chose spectacle over accuracy for a key set

The scene where the Sachem, the Huron tribal leader, passes judgement on the captured characters would historically have taken place inside a longhouse (a narrow, single-story communal dwelling, often stretching over 100 feet, used by various indigenous cultures). Mann decided instead to have an exterior set built just south of Lake James, where the production was based. The set remained in place as a tourist attraction for years afterwards, and an elevator was even installed to take visitors up to the cliff trail where the film’s climax takes place.

36. A historical adviser changed one of the most powerful moments

In one of the film’s most emotionally devastating scenes, Hawkeye mercy kills Duncan, who has offered himself as a sacrifice to spare the others. In the original script, Hawkeye fired the shot immediately, but the historical adviser on set, Mark Baker, said that Hawkeye should take careful aim before firing, as it was more realistic when using that kind of rifle. The resulting pause before the shot works on two levels: it’s historically accurate, and it extends the agony of the moment.

37. The actors in the judgement scene are all speaking different languages

The Sachem is played by Mike Phillips, an actual respected Mohawk leader who occasionally acted in television projects. In the judgement scene, the cast were speaking multiple languages simultaneously. Magua speaks Cherokee, which is Wes Studi’s native language, where Mike Phillips speaks Mohawk and some French. The authenticity of the multilingual performances is remarkable, and Phillips is particularly effective as the measured, authoritative Sachem.

38. It took three weeks to find the setting for the climax

Mann had a very specific vision for how the film’s mountainside climax should look, and it took three weeks of location scouting to find the right mountain ridge. The production team flew over the Blue Ridge Mountains in a helicopter, searching for an area untouched by modern civilisation, and eventually spotted the cliff trail that would become one of the most memorable settings in the film. The location is stunning, but it’s more than just visually impressive: the narrow path along the edge of a sheer cliff creates a genuine sense of jeopardy as the characters fight for their lives. It’s a huge part of what makes the climax work.

39. The book’s ending is very different from the film’s

The ending of Cooper’s novel differs from the film in several significant ways. In the book, Cora is the sister who dies, not Alice: Cora is the one taken by Magua, and she’s killed by a Huron warrior when the Mohicans attempt a rescue. Magua does kill Uncas in the novel, but it’s Hawkeye, not Chingachgook, who kills Magua in retaliation. Mann’s decision to give the killing blow to Chingachgook is far more satisfying dramatically, as it becomes an act of paternal revenge.

The book ends with Munro giving his blessing for Duncan to marry Alice, and the final scene is a joint funeral for Cora and Uncas, where the Sachem delivers a monologue about entering a new era. In the film, it’s Chingachgook who delivers that final monologue, calling himself “the last of the Mohicans.”

40. The film was a commercial and critical success

From a production budget of $40 million, The Last of the Mohicans grossed $75.5 million domestically and $143 million worldwide. At the Academy Awards, it won one Oscar: Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, and Simon Kaye won for Best Sound. Remarkably, that remains the one and only Oscar ever won by a Michael Mann film.

Today, on Rotten Tomatoes, The Last of the Mohicans holds an 88% critics rating and 88% from audiences. On IMDb, it has a score of 7.6 out of 10. Critics and audiences in perfect sync.

And you’ve reached the end: 40 huge facts about The Last of the Mohicans, one of the great historical epics. Please share on your social media channels, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for lots of great video content.