A Good Day to Die
A Good Day to Die
United States, Documentary, 92 minutes
This film offers an intimate look at the life of Dennis Banks who, in 1968, co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) to call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Good Day to Die chronicles his early experiences in boarding school through military service in Japan, his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison, and subsequent founding of A.I.M. – a movement of confrontational actions in Washington, DC, Custer, South Dakota, and Wounded Knee that changed the lives of American Indians forever.
Directors: David Mueller and Lynn Salt (Choctaw)
United States, Documentary, 92 minutes
This film offers an intimate look at the life of Dennis Banks who, in 1968, co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) to call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Good Day to Die chronicles his early experiences in boarding school through military service in Japan, his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison, and subsequent founding of A.I.M. – a movement of confrontational actions in Washington, DC, Custer, South Dakota, and Wounded Knee that changed the lives of American Indians forever.
Directors: David Mueller and Lynn Salt (Choctaw)
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