Incident at Oglala (1992)

Directed by

Michael Apted

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at the deaths of two FBI agents and a Native American activist on a South Dakota reservation in 1975. It focuses on the legal cases that followed, especially the trial and conviction of Leonard Peltier.

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What happens

Incident at Oglala is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Michael Apted and narrated by Robert Redford. The film documents the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975. Also killed in the multiple fire was Native American Joe Stuntz, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), whose death prompted no legal action. It examines the legal case surrounding the subsequent trials of Robert Robideau and Dino Butler, and later the separate trial of Leonard Peltier, who had to be extradited from Canada. Robideau and Butler were acquitted at their trial, but Peltier was convicted of murder in 1977. (Peltier's supporters, including the International Indian Treaty Council, maintain that he is innocent of the crimes.) The film also discusses tribal chairman Dick Wilson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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