The Exiles (1961)

Directed by

Kent Mackenzie

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows a group of young Native Americans living in Los Angeles in the late 1950s after leaving their reservations. It shows a day in their lives as they move through the rundown Bunker Hill neighborhood, hanging out, drinking, and struggling with their place between two worlds.

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What happens

The Exiles is a 1961 film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of 20-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured in the writings of Raymond Chandler, John Fante, and Charles Bukowski. The structure of the film is that of a narrative feature, the script pieced together from interviews with the documentary subjects. The film features Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, and Tommy Reynolds. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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