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 |
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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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