The Sun Dagger

• Director: Albert Ihde
• Genre: History
• Movie Type: Inventions & Innovations, Social History
• Release Year: 1983
• Run Time: 59 minutes

Plot

Narrated by Robert Redford, with commentary by Joseph Campbell, this documentary examines an archaeological prize from Chaco Canyon in New Mexico: a thousand-year-old, astronomically based calendar created by the Anasazi Indians. The program profiles scientific explanations for how the calendar was used by the Anasazi, whose culture possessed no written language, yet allowed them to thrive in the southwestern United States for two thousand years before inexplicably abandoning their complex, mortarless stone cities in the century and a half prior to the arrival of the Spanish. ~ Steve Blackburn, All Movie Guide

Cast

Robert Redford - Narrator

Credit

Joseph Campbell - Commentary, Albert Ihde - Director, Anna Sofaer - Producer