Taking Alcatraz
2015-11-01 en 40m
Documentary
A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.
Director
John Ferry
Writer
Grace De Soto
Producer
John Ferry
indigenous 1970s alcatraz prison native american sioux occupation activist 1960s activism civil disobedience land rights indigenous rights san francisco
