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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.193 |
Birthday | 1946-02-15 |
Place of Birth | Omaha, Nebraska, USA |
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1998
Smoke Signals
6.728/101
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents...
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Smoke Signals
1999
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
0/0
This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follow...
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Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
2007
The 11th Hour
6.8/88
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dia...
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The 11th Hour
1989
Powwow Highway
6.6/24
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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Powwow Highway
2003
Dreamkeeper
6.6/19
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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Dreamkeeper
2010
Reel Injun
7.1/32
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 screen...
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Reel Injun
2005
A Thousand Roads
7/1
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 w...
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A Thousand Roads
2015
Taking Alcatraz
0/0
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 tol...
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Taking Alcatraz
1992
Incident at Oglala
7.2/15
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 grou...
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Incident at Oglala
2005
Trudell
5.8/13
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
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Trudell
1992
Thunderheart
6.2/263
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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Thunderheart
1996
Extreme Measures
5.957/315
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 roo...
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Extreme Measures
1994
On Deadly Ground
5.141/463
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 w...
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On Deadly Ground
2009
No More Smoke Signals
4/2
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 Sou...
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No More Smoke Signals
2017
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
7.7/11
Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the som...
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2012
Dark Blood
6/22
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 i...
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Dark Blood
2022
Lakota Nation vs. United States
2/1
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promi...
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