Thunderheart

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Thunderheart
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Directed by	Michael Apted
Produced by	Robert De Niro John Fusco Michael Nozik Jane Rosenthal
Written by	John Fusco
Starring	Val Kilmer Graham Greene Sam Shepard Fred Dalton Thompson Shelia Tousey Fred Ward Dennis Banks John Trudell
Music by	James Horner
Running time	119 min
Language	English, Lakota
IMDb profile

Thunderheart (1992) is a crime movie directed by Michael Apted with Fred Ward and Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer, himself part Cherokee Indian, plays an FBI agent with Sioux heritage investigating a murder on a Native American reservation. It is based on true events (see Wounded Knee incident), including the rise of the American Indian Movement. In particular, the character Jimmy Looks Twice (played by John Trudell) is modeled on native American activist Leonard Peltier, who like Jimmy, was sought by the FBI for the murder of two FBI men and was eventually arrested and removed from the reservation. The film gives a very positive reading to the Leonard Peltier story, suggesting not only his innocence with respect to the murders, but also a visionary charisma and a mystical, almost saintlike, acceptance of sacrifice and martyrdom.

Apted was intrigued by the actual events behind the film, which gave the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation the highest per capita murder rate at the time^{[citation needed]}. Apted also made a documentary, Incident at Oglala.

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