Wes Studi
Also Known As: Wesley Studie , وس استودی
Biography: Wesley "Wes" Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American Cherokee actor, who has earned notability for his portrayals of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He most recently portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, U.S.
Birthday: December 17, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Heat
Overview: Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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Three Priests
Overview: Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies' man, has always dominated the shy, younger Joe, who struggles with his place in the family and his feelings of insecurity. Their parents, retired sheriff Jake and his wife Rachel, work to keep the family together, but their strength is about to be tested when a beautiful childhood friend returns, creatin
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Bonnie
Overview: A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-12
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The New World
Overview: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-25
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Street Fighter
Overview: Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Making The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: Interviews with the cast and crew of the 1992 Michael Mann film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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Deep Rising
Overview: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
Genres: Action History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Ronnie BoDean
Overview: Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life "toughman" suffering from a mean hangover. When his neighbor is jailed, his native warrior's need to teach takes over so he shows her two precocious kids modern "survival skills".
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-01
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Mystery Men
Overview: When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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Geronimo: An American Legend
Overview: The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Western History Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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Behind the Lines
Overview: Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the film tells the story of Carroll, who travels the world to seek out the greatest war letters ever written
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Undisputed
Overview: Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-17
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Acting Like Nothing is Wrong
Overview: Despite what would seem to be a flourishing career, most recently playing Kermit on Showtime's Shameless, Hollywood character actor Jim Hoffmaster struggles both professionally and personally.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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A Love Song
Overview: Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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Miracle at Sage Creek
Overview: Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves the life of a small boy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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Older Than America
Overview: The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-08
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Overview: Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-27
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Avatar
Overview: In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-15
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Mending the Line
Overview: A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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The Lone Ranger
Overview: This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old Boston law student who witnesses the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. He himself is wounded in the midst of the chaos, but is rescued by the Apache Tonto... and subsequently becomes smitten by Tonto's sister Alope. He then devotes his life to avenging the death of his brother and fighting injustice, and in the process becoming a worldwide legend.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-26
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The Roof
Overview: After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family and community in a way he never thought possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-23
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Coyote Waits
Overview: A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual events that perplex the veteran lawman, leading to an intriguing climax.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-16
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Skinwalkers
Overview: Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-02
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El Camino
Overview: Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront their own sense of family, identity and future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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A Thief Of Time
Overview: Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-11
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Wind River
Overview: The 1854 Wyoming historical drama is based on Tom Shell's adaptation of the true life memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-07
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Longarm
Overview: A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-06
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Battledogs
Overview: When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-soldiers.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-05
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
Overview: As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-22
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
Overview: When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his team, a bunch of all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire, and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-17
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Terra Infirma
Overview: Nature, government and industry collide in southwest US and southwest China, as nature fights back and people struggle to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-30
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Call of the Wild
Overview: Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-12
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The Broken Chain
Overview: The true story of Iroquois warrior Thayendanegea participating in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-11
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Pie Lady of Pie Town
Overview: In the New Mexico desert, pie equals love. Kathy Knapp left her privileged life to bake pie in dusty Pie Town, a once forgotten corner of the world with few amenities. Why? To find her center and give the world pie. This is her story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-03
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Edge of America
Overview: From acclaimed director Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time", comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship, and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Overview: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-27
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Overview: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-27
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Crazy Horse
Overview: The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
Genres: War Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-07
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Dances with Wolves
Overview: Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Road to Redemption
Overview: A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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Road to Paloma
Overview: While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-12
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The Killing Jar
Overview: Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Sugar
Overview: A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-06
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The Condemned 2
Overview: A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Christmas in the Clouds
Overview: A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Genres: Family Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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The Midway Point
Overview: Jake, a high schooler on the autistic spectrum, feels disillusioned with the world. When he meets Alice, he begins to experience the world in other ways. Little does Jake know, Alice may have more in common with him than he could imagine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-26
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Powwow Highway
Overview: Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-24
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The Only Good Indian
Overview: Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin, a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy, to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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The Undying
Overview: Seduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Soundman
Overview: A sound mixer on a low-budget sci-fi western movie falls in love with an untalented violinist and promises to get her scoring gigs for films.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-24
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Destination: Planet Negro!
Overview: In 1939, a group of African American intellectuals come up with an ingenious and unlikely response to Jim Crow America -- leave the planet and populate Mars. Using technology created by George Washington Carver, a three-person crew (plus one rambunctious robot) lift-off in Earth's first working spaceship on a mission that will take them to a world not unlike present-day America. Their spacey adventure illuminates some hard truths about American culture, and threatens to undermine the time-line of history along the way.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-16
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Animal
Overview: His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-01
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Lone Justice: Showdown at Plum Creek
Overview: A frontier sheriff copes with a missing corpse, Briton Oscar Wilde and an assassination attempt.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
Overview: Explore America’s darkest period: President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma in 1838. Nearly a quarter of the Cherokee National died during the Trail of Tears, arriving in Indian Territory with few elders and even fewer children.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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Hostiles
Overview: A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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Ice Planet
Overview: In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military academy is attacked by an unknown and unstoppable alien force. The commander, along with a group of newly graduated cadets, escapes to a large research station. Pursued by the aliens, the station jumps through a mysterious hyperspace gateway that sends them to a planet in an unknown part of the universe.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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A Dog's Way Home
Overview: The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-10
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Superfire
Overview: A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-20
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Seraphim Falls
Overview: The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, far from the comforts and codes of civilisation, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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The Dome of Heaven
Overview: Set in the unique beauty of Oklahoma country, "Dome of Heaven" is the story of the Moses family, dysfunctionally struggling for decades, and which consists of a Cherokee father and German mother and their two adult children Franklin and Flutie. With challenges both personal and societal, each tries to find their place in a world and peace with each other, but so many complications of emotions, culture clash and misunderstanding often keeps them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-04
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Wolf Ridge
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Reel Injun
Overview: The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen has changed the way to understand their history and culture.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-19
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Badland
Overview: Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Being Flynn
Overview: Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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A Good Day to Die
Overview: Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Soul
Overview: Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Canyon of the Dead
Overview: Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
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Cosmic Radio
Overview: A 38-year-old California trust fund kid tries to save his independent radio station, KZMC Cosmic Radio, from financial ruin when his wealthy father pulls the plug.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Candles
Overview: A fictional drama based on actual events. CANDLES is the story of the Camp Scott Murders where three small girls were brutally raped and murdered at a Girl Scout camp in Oklahoma back in 1977. A young woman reporter is assigned to cover the story of the decade and searches for 37 years to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
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The Doors
Overview: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Brave
Overview: Uncle Jack, a 15-year military veteran with a history of substance abuse who works as an entertainer at a local Native casino. At his estranged brother's funeral, he meets Jillian, his young orphaned niece battling liver cancer. Jillian’s dying wish is to find a home for her beloved dog, Carl. Though she sees potential in Jack as a caretaker, he struggles to care for himself. Jack turns out to be a liver donor match for Jillian, but his years of alcohol abuse have rendered him unsuitable.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Timber Lands
Overview: Follows two families with a deep-seated generational hatred for each other which comes to a head after the tragic death of one of the families’ celebrated bronc riders. At the center of it all, Russ, a man with deep ties to his native land, seeks to have the final word and bring about justice to a rivalry threatening to consume all they have left.
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Original Language: en
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The Pipeline
Overview: Based on true stories surrounding the building of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline; a woman, whose father dies, is left a trust fund tied to a mysterious name, unraveling a history of family, affairs, and life in Alaska.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Yesteryear
Overview: A Native American actress living in Los Angeles psychologically unravels in quarantine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM Protests, and other world events.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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