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Similar Movies:

First They Killed My Father

The Killing Fields

Hotel Rwanda

Sacheen: Breaking the Silence

The Hole’s Journey

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Baraka

Windtalkers

Incident at Oglala

Sea Sorrow

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting

Crazywise

El apagón: Aquí vive gente

Shake Hands with the Devil

LaDonna Harris: Indian 101

The Devil Came on Horseback

Lincoln in the Bardo

Yellowtail

The Lincoln League

Children of War