Death on The Reservation

TITLE: INCIDENT AT OGLALA

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL APTED

TITLE: THUNDERHEART

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL APTED

WRITER: JOHN FUSCO

THE BOTTOM LINE: Nonfictional and fictional quests for the same truth -- a thinking person's double feature.

IN INCIDENT AT OGLALA, WHICH IS A documentary, two FBI agents lose their life as they pursue a suspect on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Sioux Indian reservation. In Thunderheart, which is fictional, an FBI agent regains his soul as he investigates a murder in the same place.

Both movies also share a director, Michael Apted, who is probably the first filmmaker ever to bring out such closely related works...

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