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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, when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal government policy regarding Native Americans.
Apr 3, 1992 · 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.
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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 inexperienced, he is one quarter Sioux ...
Apr 3, 1992 · The opening credits began with the name “Val Kilmer,” and when the movie opened, with the assignment of an FBI agent to investigate a murder on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, I waited for Kilmer's first appearance. I had admired his performance as Jim Morrison so much in “The Doors” that I was eager to see what he would do next. The FBI agent was stopped by an Indian lawman, he ...
Val Kilmer stars as a part-Sioux FBI agent who rediscovers his lost heritage in this spellbinding murder mystery. © 1992 TriStar Pictures, Inc. All Rights R...
Val Kilmer stars as a part-Sioux FBI agent who rediscovers his lost heritage in this spellbinding murder mystery.
Thunderheart (1992) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
"The story was inspired on events that took place on Indian Reservations in the 1970s," reads the opening titles of Thunderheart (1992). On the surface, the film plays out as a classic mystery thriller dropped into the South Dakota Badlands and tangled up in the politics of the increasingly militant Indian Rights movement.
Apr 3, 1992 · Val Kilmer and Sam Shepard investigate a murder on a South Dakota Reservation. A young, half-Sioux FBI agent (Val Kilmer) teams-up with a veteran agent (Sam Shepard) to investigate a murder on a Reservation in western South Dakota where the pro-government faction conflicts with ARM, the Aboriginal Rights Movement radicals.
