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 ...
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 ...
Leonard Peltier, the former American Indian Movement leader, center, had his prison sentence commuted by President Joe Biden before he left office. (Getty Images) ...
It’s not even past.’ It’s the sort of twist no screenwriter would dare invent: “Free Leonard Peltier,” a persuasively well-researched and often infuriating documentary about the American ...
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 ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
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 ...
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.