Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering ...
Directors Jesse Short Bull and David France have diligently assembled a potent history lesson about Leonard Peltier, whom ...
This Leonard Peltier documentary is narrated by the one and only Robert Redford and has a whopping 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
There haven’t been nearly as many movies during Sundance where I’ve felt that. One of them is here in this dispatch, along ...
Editor's note: Among his final actions in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive grant of clemency Jan. 19 commuting Leonard Peltier's prison sentence. The commutation, which takes effect ...
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 ...
Regarding the Jan. 25 comments from your Editorial Board Roundtable on the recent presidential pardons and commutations (”An orgy of pardoning as Biden leaves office and Trump becomes president ...
Once the order came, the movie changed, too — literally. As recently as a week ago, Free Leonard Peltier ended with its now 80-year-old subject simply plaintively hoping he’d be released one day.
“Free Leonard Peltier” serves in many ways as a brief for the defense, making a strong case for the claim that Peltier’s trial was rigged because local and government officials were enraged ...