It’s an elusive dream for so many docmakers: to impact legislation, to find justice, to make a difference. To change the world. With Free Leonard Peltier, filmmakers Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs ...

EXCLUSIVE: The award-winning documentary Free Leonard Peltier screens at the world-renowned International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on Friday – but it won’t be the same version that ...

Film still from Free Leonard Peltier (2025), directed by Jesse Short Bull and David France (all images courtesy Sundance Institute) As a member of AIM, Peltier was part of the rising tide of ...

“Free Leonard Peltier,” the opening night feature for the 44th Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival sold out three theaters at The Main Cinema, and for good reason. The powerful and timely ...

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 the Native ...

After spending nearly 50 years in prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has returned to North Dakota and a community event welcomed him home on Wednesday. Peltier was released from a ...

BELCOURT, N.D. - It’s been six months since Leonard Peltier walked out of prison, and the first family reunion he could attend in 50 years went on without him over the weekend. Relatives expected him, ...