The Last of the Mohicans book, film and television franchise, the character Hawkeye Pierce is given his nickname by his father, after Hawk-eye from "The Last of the Mohicans". A main character in the original and subsequent film adaptation, Hawkeye, as portrayed by Alan Alda, is the central character in the long-running TV series. A number of films have been based on the lengthy book, making various cuts, compressions, and changes. The American adaptations include: The 1920 film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. According to the director Michael Mann,
Living in the Past (TV series) castmembers. In 2008, BBC Four's "What Happened Next?" revisited participants of the original series thirty years after their year living together. Living in the Past (TV series) Living in the Past was a fly on the wall documentary programme aired by the BBC in 1978 which followed a group of fifteen young volunteers, six couples and three children, recreating an Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available in Britain in the 2nd Century BC. Produced at BBC Bristol by John Percival for BBC Two