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Trudell

submitted by evil_disco_man

1 decade 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

As a poet, activist and spoken-word performer, John Trudell is one of the most prominent and passionate advocates for Native American rights. From the 1969-71 occupation of Alcatraz by the American Indian Movement to the campaign to free Leonard Peltier, convicted of the 1975 killings of two F.B.I. agents, Mr. Trudell has fought tirelessly for fair treatment for his people.

Assembling an impressive collage of newsreels, live performances and interviews with admirers, "Trudell" delivers a fascinating account of its subject's most turbulent crusades. But the man who calls Western civilization "the great lie" and once compared Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden deserves more daring and objective scrutiny than this overly reverent tribute. No one in the film has a bad word to say about Mr. Trudell, despite his 17,000-page F.B.I. dossier; and by the time Robert Redford assures us that meeting him is not dissimilar to meeting the Dalai Lama, you may feel that all this worship does not do justice to an unusually stormy and complicated life.

(review from the New York Times)

9 Comments

alien_concept

You can't be serious that this has had 26 views and no upvotes so far. Retarded. This is amazing btw

Moving this video to evil_disco_man's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

alien_concept

Ok, this is a damn good docu and deserves to be watched by more people. In fact you only need to watch the first ten minutes for it to be worthy of an upvote imo, so hopefully a *promote is gonna help

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by alien_concept.

Moving this video to evil_disco_man's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*humanitarian.
Haven't seen all of it yet, but it's quite the eye-opener; I never really knew anything of substance about the native American situation in the 20th century. Decent film-making style for a documentary, too.

Adding video to channels (Humanitarian) - requested by EDD.

i really don't dig the intro but i am gonna stick it out

well worth sticking it out. well put together and interesting on many levels.

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