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Full Review | Mar 26, 2015. Anton Bitel Little White Lies. TOP CRITIC. with its pedestrian direction, variable performances and perfunctory dialogue, this is more supernatural soap opera than ...
Older Than America: Directed by Georgina Lightning. With Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning. A Native American woman is haunted by visions that compel her to seek the truth about a residential school.
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Older than America is an educational movie about Native Americans and their experiences while attending boarding schools. It also addresses the trauma and difficulties that they still suffer today. The main character, Rain (Georgina Lightning), is reliving her mother's experiences and trying to make sense out of them.
Older than America. Older than America (alternatively titled American Evil) is 2008 American suspense drama film directed by Georgina Lightning and starring Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Tantoo Cardinal, Georgina Lightning and Bradley Cooper. The film explores the devastating personal and cultural effects of the American Indian boarding schools on the ...
OLDER THAN AMERICA seeks to teach (and in some cases, remind) viewers of the horrors of Native American boarding schools, mandated by the state for decades and often sites of torture, harassment, pain, and death. Here, that history is told through ghostly visions, lending an appropriate air of horror to the plot.
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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.