Unprecedented Paul Reubens, a Deaf rebellion, Leonard Peltier's life, dying in SF, and more real life from the 41st film fest.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return ... to the rule of law,” Wray wrote. Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which has grappled with police ...

Waters, a Kiowa and Cherokee filmmaker who resides on the Muscogee Nation reservation, began her journey as a director in ...

I am grateful that Leonard can now go home to his family. I applaud President Biden for this action and understanding what this means to Indian Country.” The fight for Peltier’s freedom is ...

Documentarians worked quickly to change up the ending of 'Free Leonard Peltier' after Biden commuted Peltier's sentence.

This man has been in prison for nearly 48 years. He is America’s longest serving political prisoner. He has not been pardoned ...

Days later, he would learn those activists — including a Turtle Mountain Chippewa man named Leonard Peltier — were involved in a shootout that left Joe Stuntz, a Coeur d'Alene activist, and two FBI ...

Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson reaffirming William Faulkner’s warning: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ It’s ...

And then there is the ending to the new film Free Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been imprisoned ... in a shootout at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, even as he maintains ...

For around two-thirds of its 111-minute running time, Free Leonard Peltier is a dry recitation of the details leading up to and surrounding the 1975 standoff and shootout at Pine Ridge Indian ...

Across New York, exhibitions highlighting the work of activists, from the mostly unknown to the iconic, offer hope, ...

The documentary selection at this year’s Sundance celebrates the work of multiple BIPOC filmmakers shedding light on untold narratives of both celebrated and unduly neglected figures from their ...