We Shall Remain

I watched the first episode of We Shall Remain tonight. It was an account of the early contact between Wampanoag Indians and the colonists at Plymouth. The documentary covered from the first contact in 1620 up until the 1680's after the close of King Philip's War.
Rather than a normal documentary, We Shall Remain is set up more like a movie interspersed with director commentary. Key events in the history are reenacted, and the intervening time is covered by a variety of scholarly and American Indian sources. The American Indians dressed as traditional Wampanoag and also spoke the Wampanoag language with English subtitles. Overall, the documentary was extraordinarily well done and gave a fascinating account of the evolving nature of European/American Indian relationships in the Early Colonial Period.
The most powerful moment was the explanation of how the English treated the Wampanoag chief Metacom (King Philip) after he had lost his war against them. The English executed Metacom and then left his head on a spike in Plymouth for 20 years as a warning to other American Indian tribes. It's difficult to comprehend how the English could accuse American Indians of barbarism when they seem to have cornered the market on it.