The Comanche thought it was disgusting, true, but it was a staple of the Sioux diet. The Kickapoo revered dogs, believing they had spirits like humans and lived in heaven after death.

‘The Revenant’ captivated audiences with its brutal survival story, but how much of it is true? This video breaks down the real events that inspired the film and separates fact from fiction.

The Revenant is based on a 2002 book by Michael Punke, who was inspired by the real life story of Glass. While a few alterations were made between the man and the account, Glass did lead an ...

Playing legendary frontiersmen Hugh Glass, Leonardo DiCaprio does some pretty hardcore and disgusting things after being attacked by a bear in The Revenant. What you may not know, however, is that ...

‘The Revenant’ True Story: Fact vs. Fiction About Hugh Glass In Leonardo DiCaprio-Tom Hardy Movie. By Maria Vultaggio Published 01/08/16 AT 10:19 AM EST.

Like Glass in "The Revenant," Assinaboine killed the giant bear with his knife. "Peter was thrown off into the chaparral, while the bear rolled over dead," an 1895 story in The Oregonian reported.

LOS ANGELES — Leonardo DiCaprio made the decision not to wrap the tops of his fingers in warming bandages on the first day of shooting the endurance drama The Revenant. He would come to regret ...

True, few will ever go to the wall of pain as did Hugh Glass. But the themes of pain, physical or emotional, and how we summon the will to carry on are universal.

It was a D.C. lawyer's dream come true, a Hollywood premiere for a movie based on the novel he wrote in his spare time. But when "The Revenant," the highly anticipated new film adapted from ...

Hugh Glass, the real-life mountain man Leonardo DiCaprio plays in The Revenant, fought off a bear and survived against the odds The legend of Hugh Glass, the 19th-century mountain man who inspired ...