Film

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood 2025

Directed by Julia Kuperberg, Clara Kuperberg

  • Documentary, History
  • 75 min

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the genocide upon which the United States was built.

DocumentaryHistoryracial stereotypenew american cinemacinema historyracial injusticehollywood historysocial & cultural documentaryracial discriminationusa cinemaamerican indianindian americanhollywood-cowboyhollywood blacklist

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