A comprehensive 26 minute video of America's costliest war per capita and the events the led up to it. On June 20, 1675, the great Wampanoag Chief, Metacom, known by the English settlers as King Philip, attacked the settlement at Swansea, Massachusetts, precipitating the bloody war that destroyed his tribe and nearly bankrupted the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies of New England. Before the war ended in August of 1676 with the death of Philip, 3000 native Americans and 800 English had been killed; a staggering mortality given the population of that time.

Learn the fascinating facts of the war from Eric Schultz and Michael Tougias, best-selling authors of King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict, and present day Wampanoag historians. Filmed live at Plimoth Plantation and other locations around New England, and including informative maps illustrating battle sites and historical markers.