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A hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Shot in the badlands of Montana, directors Alex and Andrew Smith have crafted a gorgeous heartbreaker of a movie, a revisionist Western where the Indians are the Cowboys, set to high lonesome soundtrack by Heartless Bastards that includes new songs.
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Collection of films related to the Native American experience. Great Indian leaders & nations presents true stories of Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, Quanah Parker, Geronimo, and the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. Sacagawea offers a dramatic re-enactment of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Sacagwea. Spirit bear is the insipring coming of age true story of the boywho saved the endangered Spirit Bears. The sign of the beaver is...
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The Billy Jack cycle in widescreen with updated commentary. In "Born losers" (1967), Tom Laughlin introduced the character of Billy Jack, a mixed-race Native American, ex-Green Beret, and Vietnam vet who just wants to be left alone. When a vicious motorcycle gang launches a reign of terror on a small town, he finds he must stand up and fight while others hide in fear. Billy Jack kills the leader of the gang, but is accidentally slain by a deputy sheriff....
7) Skins
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Explores the bond between two brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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The true story of the woman who inspired the best selling book. This is a documentary that goes out to the island, visits the Lone Woman's campsite and cave, includes an interview with now deceased author Scott O'Dell, and visually captures the adventure that she experienced all those years ago.
11) 500 nations
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Uses firsthand accounts, location filming, and virtual-reality re-creations to trace the history of the hundreds of Native American nations that have inhabitated North America for over fifteen thousand years, discussing their centuries-long struggle to survive.
12) The Navajo
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Navajos tell their own story of survival in the harsh yet beautiful land of Northern Arizona.
13) Yellow Rock
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Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy. They must fight wild animals, the elements, and eventually each other, as the dangerous journey unfolds.
14) Scape
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Based on Rudyard Kipling's story: 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, takes place in the early 1800s on the Oregon Trail. Indians attack Morrowbie's caravan and he becomes separated from his wife. He walks alone through the open frontier, searching for her, when he wanders into a remote colony in the forest for the mentally ill. With the fate of his wife looming, Morrowbie must attempt the impossible, escape.
15) Only the valiant
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A Cavalry officer volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
20) Diplomaniacs
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The comedy team of Wheeler and Woolsey are at it again in this screwball comedy. Willy Nilly (Wheeler) and Hercules Glub (Woolsey) are partners who own a barbershop. By getting Hercules' instructions wrong, Willy Nilly ends up locating their business on an Oklahoma Indian reservation where only one resident has facial hair! Whisked away by the oil-rich Oopadoop Indians, the pair are offered a million dollars by the chief of the tribe to represent...
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