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Robert Redford is the executive producer and narrator of this 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 2 federal men, whose killing 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 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.
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