A Good Day to Die (2010)

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.

Cast (32)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Dennis Banks

Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa

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Brenda Child

Self - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa

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Bob Hicks

Self - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole

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Sydney Byrd

Self - Dakota

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George Mitchell

Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa

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Frances Fairbanks

Self - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa

J

Jay WhiteCrow

Self - AIM Member; Seneca

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Lyle Rustad

Self - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation

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Clyde Bellecourt

Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa

L

Lehman Brightman

Self - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek

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Wilmer Mesteth

Self - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota

C

Charlie Hill

Self - Comedian; Oneida

Wes Studi

Self - Actor; Cherokee

K

Ken Tilsen

Self - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial

C

Cy Griffin

Self - Videographer

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LaDonna Harris

Self - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche

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Della Warrior

Self - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria

E

Eda Gordon

Self - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial

J

Joann WhiteCrow

Self - AIM Member; Cherokee

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Marshall McKay

Self - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

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George Tennyson

Self - US Marshal, South Dakota

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Cora Jones

Self - Former employee, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dakota

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Marshall Young

Self - Judge, Custer Trial, Custer, SD

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Tashina Banks

Self - Dennis Banks' daughter; Lakota - Ojibwa

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Dorothy Sun Bear

Self - Wounded Knee Museum; Lakota

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Roselyn Jumping Bull

Self - Great granddaughter of Sitting Bull; Lakota

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Rick Thomas

Self - Vietnam Veteran; Dakota

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Larry Anderson

Self - Vietnam Veteran, Tribal Councilman; Navajo

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Leonard Wabasha

Self - 7th Generation Hereditary Chief; Dakota

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Leonard Foster

Self - AIM Member; Navajo

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De Glassgow

Self - Sheriff, Custer County, SD

Jerry Brown

Self - Attorney General, California / Former California Governor

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