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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012236129035
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 13756
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1992
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Robert Redford is the executive producer (and narrator) of this fine, eye-opening documentary about the violent events that took place in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Indian activists ended up in an extended standoff with FBI agents, and the result was several deaths, including two federal men whose killing (according to many people) was never clearly attributed to a specific gunman. Nevertheless, the government laid blame for the tragedy on Leonard Peltier, a Sioux political leader who has long been a focus for supporters believing he took the fall, possibly heroically, for others. Peltier has spent many years in prison, and Apted's film, which is hardly ambiguous in its commitment toward Peltier's hoped-for freedom, is persuasive in both its detail and its case against brutal federal policies toward Indians. Whatever one's position on the Peltier question, this is a compelling piece of work. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Real history
this tells the mostly true story of the american indian movememt not the propaganda the government puts out. even if some goals of the movement were not achieved there was at the time a awakening of Indian pride thru the takeover of the town of wounded knee,so. dak. in 1973. that was a scary time in so. dak.
Rating: - It started because of the theft of a pair of Cowboy boots
In 1975, Pine Ridge was one of the poorest and most neglected Indian reservations in the US. It was a hopeless place. When the FBI came to claim a tribal member for the theft of a pair of cowboy boots, battle broke out.
This award-winning documentary, narrated by Robert Redford, tells of the struggle between the various factions among the reservation populations. Pine Ridge literally was having a civil war between traditional and government supporting Indians. The latter had 'goons' ... Read More
Rating: - Meticulous, classic Michael Apted documentary
Meticulous, classic Michael Apted documentary...drama without a smidgen of sensationalism. Call me a nerd, but I was blown away by the editing. I could not even begin to conceive myself of how I'd go about piecing together a linear timeline of an incredibly convoluted, complex story (best represented by the notorious 18,000 pages of FBI paper...if you get my drift). But Apted and crew go about it methodically and choose to follow a particular timeline (resting heavily on Robideau and Butler, who appear ... Read More
Rating:  - Revealing
I was impressed by the way this film was able to get candid interviews from the people involved. Redford must have been seeking the real truth without prejudice, or he would not have gotten so much honesty from everyone he interviewed.
Watch this film closely. I think if you do that you will see, as I did, that some of the people he talked to know exactly what happened, they are just not saying.
Whoever Mr. X is, he is a coward. How can he allow Peltier to languish in prison for ... Read More
Rating: - A must see movie
This true story about Leonard Peltier, an American Indian, who is still in prison for crimes he did not commit will open your eyes to the unjust treatment of Native Americans by our government. The government's logic...Somebody had to pay for the killing of 2 white agents. So they pin it on Leonard Peltier, a Native American. FREE PELTIER!!!
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