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Incident at Oglala | |
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Directed by | Michael Apted |
Produced by | Arthur Chobanian |
Starring | Norman Zigrossi Robert Sikma Darelle Butler Bob Robideau Norman Brown Leonard Peltier |
Narrated by | Robert Redford |
Cinematography | Maryse Alberti |
Edited by | Susanne Rostock |
Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $536,848[1] |
Incident at Oglala is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Michael Apted and narrated by Robert Redford. The film documents the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975. Also killed in the multiple fire was Native American Joe Stuntz, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), whose death prompted no legal action.
It examines the legal case surrounding the subsequent trials of Robert Robideau and Dino Butler, and later the separate trial of Leonard Peltier, who had to be extradited from Canada. Robideau and Butler were acquitted at their trial, but Peltier was convicted of murder in 1977. (Peltier's supporters, including the International Indian Treaty Council, maintain that he is innocent of the crimes.) The film also discusses tribal chairman Dick Wilson.