John Trudell

John Trudell

John Trudell was an American Indian author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in three films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.

  • Title: John Trudell
  • Popularity: 0.78
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-02-15
  • Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
  • Homepage: https://www.johntrudell.com
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John Trudell Movies

  • 1998
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    Smoke Signals

    Smoke Signals

    6.7 1998 HD

    Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His...

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  • 1999
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    Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

    Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

    1 1999 HD

    This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film...

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  • 2007
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    The 11th Hour

    The 11th Hour

    6.8 2007 HD

    A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing...

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  • 1989
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    Powwow Highway

    Powwow Highway

    6.6 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Dreamkeeper

    Dreamkeeper

    6.6 2003 HD

    In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take...

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  • 2010
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    Reel Injun

    Reel Injun

    7.1 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    A Thousand Roads

    A Thousand Roads

    7 2005 HD

    The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live...

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  • 2015
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    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz

    1 2015 HD

    A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

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  • 1992
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    Incident at Oglala

    Incident at Oglala

    7.2 1992 HD

    On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a...

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  • 2005
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    Trudell

    Trudell

    5.429 2005 HD

    A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

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  • 1992
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    Thunderheart

    Thunderheart

    6.3 1992 HD

    An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.

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  • 1996
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    Extreme Measures

    Extreme Measures

    6 1996 HD

    Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency...

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  • 1994
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    On Deadly Ground

    On Deadly Ground

    5.1 1994 HD

    Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care...

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  • 2009
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    No More Smoke Signals

    No More Smoke Signals

    4 2009 HD

    Kili Radio - "Voice of the Lakota Nation" - is broadcast out of a small wooden house that sits isolated on a hill, lost in the vast countryside of...

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  • 2017
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    Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

    Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

    7.7 2017 HD

    Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the...

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  • 2012
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    Dark Blood

    Dark Blood

    6 2012 HD

    Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site...

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  • 2022
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    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    Lakota Nation vs. United States

    2 2022 HD

    Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to...

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  • 1992
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    Incident at Oglala

    Incident at Oglala

    7.2 1992 HD

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  • 2005
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    Trudell

    Trudell

    5.429 2005 HD

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  • 1991
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    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

    Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1996
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    The West

    The West

    8.4 1996 HD

    The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and...

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