Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood

About Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood

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.

Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood (2025) is a documentary history film directed by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg. Irene Bedard appears as Self, Tantoo Cardinal as Self, Darrell Redleaf-Fielder as Self, and Hanay Geiogamah as Self.

Released in February 2025, it runs 75 minutes. Written by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg. It was produced by Wichita Films.

Shelv files it under cinema history, social & cultural documentary, USA cinema, and hollywood history. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

Breakdown: 1975, Becoming Marilyn, and King Kong: Monster and Myth make useful companions to Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood, all filed under new american cinema.