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Thunderheart: Directed by Michael Apted. With Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward. A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Thunderheart is a 1992 American Neo-Western mystery film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by John Fusco. The film is a loosely based fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, [2] when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal ...
Apr 3, 1992 · In “Thunderheart” we get a real visual sense of the reservation, of the beauty of the rolling prairie and the way it is interrupted by deep gorges, but also of the omnipresent rusting automobiles and the subsistence level of some of the housing.
When a series of murders stuns a small Native American reservation, the FBI sends in agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) to investigate. While Ray is relatively...
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Val Kilmer stars as a part-Sioux FBI agent who rediscovers his lost heritage in this spellbinding murder mystery.
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There has been a series of mysterious homicides on a Sioux Indian reservation in the Badlands of South Dakota. The investigation of homicides on Native American territory is within Federal jurisdiction, but the FBI is finding it difficult to gather information from the native Sioux.
Feb 23, 2021 · Under the cloak of murder/mystery, Thunderheart investigates the Native Americans’ perpetual struggle to preserve their traditional values and natural resources. Thunderheart is inspired by real events: the death of two FBI agents in June 1975, the consequent clampdown on the American Indian Movement (AIM) by the US government, and the 57 ...
Apr 3, 1992 · 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.
THUNDERHEART. Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard and Graham Greene star in this powerful murder mystery with all the style and suspense of Witness. Kilmer stars as Ray Levoi, a hotshot FBI agent who's thrust into a strange new world when he is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation.
