Free Leonard Peltier (2025)

Directed by

Jesse Short Bull, David France

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who spent 49 years in prison for the disputed 1975 killings of two FBI agents. It covers his life, his activism, and his eventual release to house arrest in 2025.

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What happens

Free Leonard Peltier is a 2025 American documentary film, directed by Jesse Short Bull and David France. The film profiles Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist who spent 49 years in prison for a controversial disputed conviction of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, before having his sentence commuted to house arrest in 2025, just one week before the film's premiere. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2025, and is scheduled to be released on October 12, 2026, by Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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