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,
Captain Ultra (TV series) Captain Ultra (TV series) This series is based very loosely on "Captain Future", the pulp science fiction saga created by the influential Edmond Hamilton. This was not the only time his work was adapted in Japan: "Captain Future" was officially adapted into an anime series by Toei Doga in 1978, and that same year, Tsuburaya Productions adapted his "Starwolf" novels into a tokusatsu sci-fi action series of the same title. Originally, this series was aired by Tokyo Broadcasting System right after the end of the original "Ultraman" show to serve as a filler series to while Tsuburaya Productions geared up