The acclaimed new documentary “Free Leonard Peltier” will open the 44th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs April 2 through 13. Screenings are $17, or $11 for MSP Film ...

After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on February 18. He received a triumphant welcome in his native land, the Turtle ...

You would have been hard-pressed to find a timelier film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival than “Free Leonard Peltier,” directors Jesse Short Bull and David France’s documentary about ...

While “Free Leonard Peltier” uses interviews, archival footage and A.I.-generated reenactments to recreate the events that transpired that day at Wounded Knee, the film also situates Peltier ...

BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains ... to say that he is free and he gets ...

Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave) Leonard Peltier speaks during an interview in Belcourt, N.D, on Tuesday, Feb.

Pretty soon we were all down to our socks and our (AIM) T-shirts,” Walking Elk laughed. In the years since, he’s traveled the world and seen support for Leonard Peltier’s cause echoed ...