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Skins A dark and moving tale of bitter helplessness turned to vigilante rage, Skins is the second feature film directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). As with the previous movie, Skins concerns two very different and determined protagonists who have grown up together: a cop, Rudy Yello...	Dreamkeeper While it doesn't hold together as a three-hour TV drama, Dreamkeeper should prove enthralling to anyone interested in Native American myths and legends. A variety of tribal folklore provides the episodic thrust of this typical Hallmark production, which relies too heavily on digi...	The Last of His Tribe Between 1800 & 1900 almost 300000 native americans were slaughtered. It was thought that none had remained in teh wild until one day in 1911 a doctor & his wife discover one survivor - and with him the secrets of a vanished land. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 ...	Pow Wow Highway Gary Farmer (Smoke Signals) is the standout in a fine film by Jonathan Wacks about an oversized Cheyenne man-child (Farmer) who decides to go on a spiritual quest, while simultaneously giving a ride to his lifelong Indian activist friend (A. Martinez). The film takes us through s...	Spirit Rider
Thunderheart Tough but moving, Thunderheart is an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing ...	Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story Robert Redford is the executive producer (and narrator) of this fine, eye-opening documentary about the violent events that took place in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Indian activists ended up in an extended standoff with FBI agents, and the result was ...	The Song of Hiawatha	Spirit Bear	Four Sheets to the Wind An endearing, comic and eternally universal love and death story set among the modern traditions of the Oklahoma Indian. Starring Cody Lightning as Cufe Smallhill who finds his usually silent father even quieter than usual…dead from an overdose of medication. Without fanfare...

Radical story - In its day...
I got this video because my brother said it was such a great movie... He was wrong... It may have been radical and extreme in its day.. However, with todays sick serial killers, and celebrity cannibals, its pretty tame stuff to watch now.. MJL

Sure beats Disney!
I'm NOT Indian, but I agree completely with baylor in the previous review. This is a very good film...I own it...watch it maybe once a year - and NOT at bedtime - because I am tired of all the feel-good films and this expresses very well the anger and feeling of helplessness that goes with disenfranchisement. The characters are true to themselves so have to be admired, even if you don't like them...and in some indefinable way, they all "grow" too.

Graham Greene in a different role
It has been a while since I viewed this movie but I do recall that I found the role of Arthur an interesting turn for Graham Greene. Most of the exposure I had of him to that point was his role in Dances with Wolves, Maverick and his occasional appearance on the Red Green Show as the bumbling explosives "expert". I appreciated seeing him in a role where he isn't portrayed as the nice guy or "Noble Savage" (for lack of a better term). I thought the story was solid enough and I'll admit I was shocked to see Mr. Greene commit the acts of violence (the finger removal scene was unexpected). I think it is a must see for fans of Graham Greene.

To The Point
This movie was as it states clearcut. The whole basis of this movie is to make aware what is happening every day to our forests and how our fine Government steps all over the first peoples. How money is more important than our very future. If you caught the end you notice that Arthur disappears into the water which leads me to know that he was in fact a spirit of the tree peoples. I loved the movie.

Worth a rental for Greene fans.
The film is about average in most regards; the plot is somewhat predictable but not painfully so. Greene gives a fair performance, but the film's style is anything but innovative. All in all, this would be worth a rental if you're a Graham Greene fan. One more thing... Clearcut portrays Red Rock, Ontario as a backwater reservation where people live in squalid conditions. Having lived there for most of my life I must say nothing could be further from the truth. It's an average, sleepy little suburb town the subsistence of which depends on the paper mill in question. The majority of the people there are middle class laborers.