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Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992)

Director: Michael Apted
Genre:  Documentary
Language: English
Subtitles: None

Rated: PG-13 Mild Violence, Questionable for Children, Profanity

In 1975, FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Reservation and after gunfire, a Native American and two FBI agents were dead. Three men were apprehended after a FBI manhunt, and only Leonard Peltier was convicted. This is his story.

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Biography: Sitting Bull (2005)

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Genre:  Documentary
Language: English
Subtitles: None

For history scholars, the name Sitting Bull brings to mind the powerful Native American Resistance and the bloody Battle at Little Bighorn. There was much more to the Sioux medicine man's rich and varied life though, and as the filmmakers behind A&E's acclaimed Biography series of documentaries look even deeper into Sitting Bull's past, the noble efforts of one warrior to preserve his rich heritage offers a moving portrait of the man who masterminded the victory at Custer's Last Stand, and held a curious position in Buffo Bill's "Wild West Show" before meeting a grim end in captivity. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Lakota Woman – Siege at Wounded Knee (1994) VHS

Director: Frank Pierson
Genre:  Drama

Language: English
Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

Screen autobiography of Mary Crow Dog, a woman who survived childhood abuse, endured intra-tribal politics and became an eyewitness to the 1973 siege at Wounded Knee.

 

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Thunderheart (1992)

Director: Michael Apted
Genre:  Thrillers
Language: French, English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Rated: R Questionable for Children, Profanity, Violence

When the FBI can't crack a string of murders on a South Dakota Indian reservation, they send in fresh-faced field agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), who lacks experience but holds a trump card: his quarter Sioux heritage. His cynical boss (Sam Shepard) and the local medicine man (Marvin Thin Elk) try to throw him off the trail. But as he gets closer to the truth, he must choose between upholding the law and honoring his roots.