John Trudell

John Trudell

1946-02-15 Omaha, Nebraska, USA 21 Credits

Biography

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...

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Lakota Nation vs. United States

Lakota Nation vs. United States

2022

as Self (archive footage)

5.3
Acting

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...

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

2017

as Self

7.7
Acting

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...

Taking Alcatraz

Taking Alcatraz

2015

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

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...

Dark Blood

Dark Blood

2012

as Indian #2

5.8
Acting

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...

Reel Injun

Reel Injun

2010

as Self

7.2
Acting

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...

No More Smoke Signals

No More Smoke Signals

2009

as self

4.0
Acting

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...

The 11th Hour

The 11th Hour

2007

as Self

6.7
Acting

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dia...

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

2005

as Black Hawk (voice)

Acting

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history...

A Thousand Roads

A Thousand Roads

2005

as Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

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...

Trudell

Trudell

2005

as Self / Narrator (voice)

5.4
Acting

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

Trudell

Trudell

2005

Music

5.4

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

Dreamkeeper

Dreamkeeper

2003

as Coyote

6.6
Acting

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 ...

Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

1999

as Self - Santee Sioux

Acting

This doc explores "The Band" guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson's Native American background. Half Mohawk on his mother's side, the film follow...

Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals

1998

as Randy Peone

6.8
Acting

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...

Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures

1996

as Tony

6.0
Acting

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...

On Deadly Ground

On Deadly Ground

1994

as Johnny Redfeather

5.2
Acting

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...

Incident at Oglala

Incident at Oglala

1992

as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement

7.0
Acting

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...

Incident at Oglala

Incident at Oglala

1992

Music Consultant

7.0

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...

Thunderheart

Thunderheart

1992

as Jimmy Looks Twice

6.3
Acting

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

1991

Thanks

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, w...

Powwow Highway

Powwow Highway

1989

as Louie Short Hair

6.6
Acting

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 ...