Synopsis
In the early 1970s, the United States was roiled by protest: Vietnam, women's rights, gay rights, black power and, rising up at the forefront, the American Indian Movement, AIM. Leonard Peltier was a young mechanic when he joined AIM to advocate for his people and quickly found himself swept up in a war between activists and the US government. FREE LEONARD PELTIER, the new documentary from acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France, revisits the turbulent era of AIM, bringing alive the occupations, arrests, demands, and assassinations and culminating in the FBI's descent onto the compound on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where Peltier was staying. After two FBI agents are killed in the ensuing shootout, Peltier is arrested, tried, convicted of their murder and sentenced to two life terms in prison in one of the most notorious and discredited legal judgments in modern America. Now, fifty years later, with Peltier still in jail, FREE LEONARD PELTIER arrives to revisit his case in a new era and to advocate for just what its title suggests.
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Director
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Jesse Short Bull,
David France
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Producer
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David France,
Jhane Myers,
Paul McGuire,
N. Bird Runningwater
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Production Co
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Public Square Films
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Genre
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Crime,
Documentary,
History
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Original Language
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English
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Runtime
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1h 50m
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