The Red Man's View

{{short description|1909 film}}

{{Use American English|date=September 2021}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Red Man's View

| image = The Red Man's View.webm

| caption = {{left|Play film; runtime 00:14:35.}}

| director = D. W. Griffith

| producer =

| writer = Frank E. Woods

| starring = Owen Moore
James Kirkwood

| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer

| distributor =

| released = {{film date|1909|12|9}}

| runtime = 14-15 minutes
(1 reel, 971 feet)

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

}}

The Red Man's View (also cited The Redman's View) is a 1909 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and shot in New York state. Prints of the film exist in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RedMansView1909.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Red Man's View |access-date=July 16, 2008|work=Silent Era}} According to the New York Dramatic Mirror, the film is about "the helpless Indian race as it has been forced to recede before the advancing white, and as such is full of poetic sentiment".Thomas Cripps, Hollywood's High Noon: Moviemaking and Society Before Television, JHU Press, 1997, p. 27 In his 2003 publication The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century, film historian Scott Simon observes that "the film's title works out to mean 'The Red Man's Point of View', and for all the film's difficulty in making drama from a long, passive march, there's nothing like The Red Man's View in Hollywood until John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn more than fifty years later".Simon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century. Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 55-56.

A remake starring Daniel Baldwin, Saginaw Grant, Booboo Stewart, Elaine Miles, Michael Spears, and Crystal Lightning was scheduled to be released in 2017.{{Cite web|title=The Red Man's View, featuring all-star Native American cast |url=https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/red-mans-view-featuring-all-star-native-american-cast|access-date=November 1, 2020|website=East County Magazine|language=en}}